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> I can't understand how people can still give governments the benefit of the doubt when they've been exposed as liars repeatedly for years.

Because in their model of the world, evidence derives from authority. They value phatic expression and hierarchy instead of deduction and reasoning. Before you can convince such people of anything, you must first learn to speak their language.

http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2007/05/31/more-than-just-resi...

While this essay is concerned with creationists and evolution, I encourage everybody to read it as it's observations about phatic communication - and how to overcome that roadblock in education - apply generally.
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I like FreeBSD a lot more than Linux at the administration level. I ran it as my desktop for a few years.

The big problem: all the software I wanted to run assumed the whole world was GNU/Linux. So I ended up running lots of Linux binaries under emulation.

(yes, I could have compiled everything from ports. But the time I spent 3 days compiling OpenOffice to discover the port was known-broken put me off that a bit ...)

Then I discovered Ubuntu and in particular synaptic and the Debian repos and had a "holy shit, this gets it right" moment. Haven't looked back.
Measuring evolutionary algorithm performance is a complicated question. It depends on what you want out of your algorithm. This one does a magnificent job at what it's for, which is illustrating what artificial evolution looks like.

For an engineering optimization problem, I always look for sources of conflict, so there would be multiple objectives, we'd have to choose a metric or three, do a bunch of different random seed trials, and so forth.
The jurisdiction in which Coinbase operates? This is a pretty lame argument
That is not the consensus. The consensus is a massive decline in commodity prices (oil, metals, etc) and a decline in demand for exportable finished goods is crushing global trade. Indicators are everywhere:

Rail Traffic Data:
https://www.aar.org/Pages/Freight-Rail-Traffic-Data.aspx

US Capacity Utilization:
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/TCU/

US Exports:
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/IQ

US Industrial Production:
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/industrial-pro...

WPI, PPI, CPI and oil prices have all fallen significantly.

I don't want to get political but a deflationary spiral is something governments globally should be working to correct, yet priorities seem to be elsewhere.
This is a false dichotomy. Bitcoin is a useful protocol for other things besides consumer payments. It is also possible that even if Coinbase's value proposition is 99% as an exchange, there may still be some value to its users in providing a convenient device for extracting $ from their btc balances. Someday I could see Coinbase as a sort of wrapper around multi-currency wallets. Users may have btc, ltc, $, and various other digital assets which they (stupidly or not) wish to leave in one repository.
From the paper: "...when given a different task—namely, classification of suspicious mammographic densities
(masses)—the pigeons proved to be capable only of image memorization and were unable to successfully generalize when shown novel examples. " Sounds like overfitting, we need to L2 regularize these pigeons.
Decommissioning a free public API
Curious, why would you do that? Why wouldn't you transfer coins to a wallet you control and then conduct the transaction from there? Doing it from Coinbase throws away anonymity -- why not just buy your drugs with a Visa card then?
By "convincing", what sort of delay would you be looking at on reasonably powerful hardware? Enough to fool the ear into thinking it really was real-time?

As a side question, are the sorts of modeling / math that would be done in a scenario like this amenable to offloading to a GPU (if the transformations would potentially be better handled by something like http://www.bealto.com/gpu-fft.html, for instance)? Is that a dumb question? :-)
Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
As a fellow sufferer of depression, I can relate and agree that the more intense the effort the greater the release of hormones/feelings which appear to suppress the depressive symptoms. That being said however, I have found long walks of a low intensity have been especially useful. Particularly on trails or hiking, the constant mindfulness of each step over rocks and roots helps put me in a meditative trance.

Solvitur Ambulando, it is solved by walking
There's little technical difference. Both BSD and Linux provide set of kernel-level mechanisms that allow you to run "containers", ie. process trees that are completely isolated from each other and from the host OS. They are roughly comparable, I believe, with mostly minor technical differences.

The huge practical difference right now is that on Linux, Docker and LXC (as in linuxcontainers.org) provide a high-level, fairly opinioned framework and set of infrastructure pieces to build, run and manage containers — and there are no fully equivalent tools on BSD, at least none that are as featureful or mature.

If you want to do containerized deploys on BSD, you'll be writing scripts that set up jails, call rctl, set kernel parameters with sysctl, and so on. There's ezjail [1], but it's nowhere near Docker in terms of scope.

I actually wish there was something on Linux that was less monolithic and better designed than Docker. Its image management is badly designed and annoying to use, and after all this time it still suffers from design flaws such as needing to be the parent of all containers (completely unnecessary given that we have cgroups).

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/j...
If you're willing to use a custom rom, you can see the counts with Cyanogenmod 12.1, based on Android 5.1 (maybe in previous versions too). 17 562 times for me in less than a month.
The title of this post is wrong, its also not what the project is about.

There are good reasons to put urls in robots.txt. You can use it to exclude parts from your website from search engines. This is however not a way to hide parts of your site. So don't use it to hide parts, but for parts you don't want indexed.

/admin/ is a good example. This is a login page to your admin backend. Telling search engines to not list that page is fine. Assuming /admin/ would not be accessed if you put it in robots.txt is not. Claiming because /admin/ is in robots.txt it would be a greater security risk is just wrong.
That's essentially the solution Rust and Cargo adopt. It occasionally causes strange errors like "expected Foo, found Foo" (where the first Foo was, say, Foo version 1.1 and the second was Foo version 1.2), but the compiler now detects this situation and tries to explain what's going on.

I'm certain I'm biased, but in my experience it's been the most robust way to handle versioning that I've dealt with.
Not only, my friend :)

You you can make your building better solving puzzles, you can use standard algorithms in battle, but you can also write your own algorithms

or... wait for it... steal algorithms in battles...
For credit cards in the US you virtually never use a PIN. Debit cards only
Affordable housing persons maybe can't afford most of the furniture in those interior photographs.
(French here)

"France already massively ramped up their surveillance state after the Hebdo attacks"

I don't think that's true. When France passed the big intelligence law this summer, the goal was to explicitly legalize the surveillance programs that were already in effect, but were until then in a grey area, legally speaking.

Nobody talked about actually increasing the surveillance, or you have information that we don't.
I'll watch. LaunchD isn't bad on the OS X boxes we have[1] and I guess coming from NeXTSTEP, Mach isn't something I have a problem with. I will see how it works, but I'm an OpenBSD user these days so I will wait and see what they think.

1) my main complain has already been addressed with the switch from XML
Copyright law deals with the situation you've mentioned in different ways in different countries. For instance, it is just illegal in Europe to transfer the credit of one's labor (or copyright). In the Americas, however, companies blatantly mention in the `TOCs` that they own rights over employee's all work.

Of course, the extent to which the law is actually applied in Europe depends on the conditions of employment and whether the employees have the time and resources to wage a legal war against their employers.
So instead of a currency being centralized between governments and banks, it's centralized around a few dozen miners and developers.
At least to point 2, with regards to outlawing encryption, it really is all-or-nothing. You either allow strong encryption, or you disallow all encryption and destroy e-commerce. There is no in-between when it comes to encryption.

No, split key escrow is not an option. See OPM.
I played the game for a few minutes. I had the option of spending $99.99 to purchase a red lightning bolt thing.
Most customers find it convenient that the exchange they use doesn't abruptly get all its (and by extension, its clients') assets seized by government officials for not complying with financial regulations.
Granted, the browser-snapshot-of-comment may not be the best presentation technique, especially as HN layout causes the comment to clip at small browser widths.

A fix for this (without having to redesign HN) would be to create an embedable widget that takes in a HN comment ID and retrieves it from the HN API, then style the response so it matches the theme.
Xposed Framework + XPrivacy allows quite granular access controls and history track of those

https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy#xprivacy

http://i.imgur.com/mZC4RjE.png (random picture of usage history, found on net)
I'm not sure it makes sense to talk about outliers when there are so few major exchanges.
many 802.11ac devices can do beam forming http://www.pcworld.com/article/2061907/all-about-beamforming...
How would Coinbase know anything about your transactions? Shouldn't they just process the exchange of necessary payment information?
I've had issues this year w/ Ubuntu 14.04 machines where the kernel modules would not build, resulting in zpools that could not be imported. I guess that's more of a packaging issue than a code issue.

I periodically have unexpected behavior where my filesystem doesnt mount right and I have to re-mount, or the nfs exports have to be re-exported, etc. I've assumed this was due to incomplete configuration on my part but it's clearly not as brainless to set up as native fs.
Investigating America's elite: Cognitive ability, education, and sex differences [pdf]
And hopefully soon they can pop up scary warnings for unencrypted sites.
This is a, not new but very interesting, theory that appeared first time in 'Nature' in the late 90's if I remember correctly. The theory received more support later. In retrospective, is easy to make the conection when you see it the first time, but nobody knew it before. This was a really shocking idea for many or us.

Myxozoans are mysterious aquatic organisms causing serious mortality in fishes and millionary economic damages sometimes. They have a very complex life cycle with multinucleated plasmodia, sporoblast phases and two different types of spores, one for attacking worms and other for fishes.

Only one type of spores have the polar capsules, and they are exacty like nematocysts. At microscope you can see the coiled filaments inside, easily fired with urea in lab. They are used in host atachment before to release a motile ameboid form.

A similar history happened also with the similar Microspora, a classic phylum of protozoans parasites of animals, currently in fungi.
Ask HN: Help finding a video?
I had once seen a talk (I think the speaker said he worked at Heroku?) and he tells a story about how someone encouraged a "rockstar" programmer to start asking for help by asking him for help instead.

Video ring a bell for anyone else who might know the speaker/talk?
This uses Python 3 without mentioning it, so it's easy to write correct Python 2.7 code and have it judged wrong.
I prefer the "Comparing BSD and Linux" article by Greg Lehey. He clearly prefers BSD and thinks that the BSDs are more elegant OSs than GNU/Linux. Nevertheless, he admits that some users may prefer GNU/Linux for various reasons, and we are left to make our own decisions as to the aesthetics of the various unixes.

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/explaining-bsd/compa...
Not a dumb question at all! I don't know about that, but I did find out by submitting this to reddit that you can use a WAV file as a time domain stimulus for LTSpice.
"shift the point of taxation" implies that there is only 1 point of taxation. That's wrong. With regular corporations, there are 2 points of taxation: the owner/shareholder, the corporation. S Corps eliminate the 2nd point of taxation. It doesn't simply "shift" the tax burden, it eliminates an entire additional class of taxes.
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Why is having the shell being able to load offline when the XHR'd content won't be able to load a plus? It makes sense for productivity apps like Google Docs, where you're writing the content, but not for a majority of apps.

I'm tired of web 2.0 ajax sites where you scroll through content, click a link, then you try to go back, and you have to scroll through the same things you didn't care about again. Or in Facebook newsfeed's case even reorders things.

It honestly feels like "Ooh look at this shiny new tech. Let's use it! Why? Because we need to improve 'usability'! proceed to throw other usability concerns into the trashcan"
This is a frequent request. It can be very interesting to see how professional designs stack up against algorithmically generated ones. I'm a proponent of multi-objective algorithms, so it tends to be the case that professional designs are at least close to Pareto-optimal. Pros are pros for a reason. But they are often unaware of nondominated alternatives. For really hard problems, problems that evolutionary algorithms are bad at, experts can still come up with better alternatives than algorithms.
That type of viewpoint is hurting our industry. Just blindly doing things is not productive at all. You should learn and understand what it is you are doing before you do it. Just getting shit tonnes of stuff done is not productive at all if you don't understand how or why you are doing it.

Truck drivers actually know how to drive, Crane operators know how to run a crane, and people operating production servers costing businesses time and resources should also act in the best interest of the business.
> ... so that we can enable a future where financial privacy is optional (versus today, where it is basically inescapable).

This is a typo, right? Financial privacy today is basically impossible, not inescapable. Tracking is basically inescapable, unless one uses cash. And using cash is becoming virtually illegal.
No, that's not a dumb question. I suspect that a successful port of a circuit simulator to the GPU would yield impressive performance gains. However, it would be far, far from easy. Disclaimer: I am a developer on a commercial circuit simulator.

As for delay, 10ms is fairly reasonable.
There's actually more content in the article. It's far from click-bait.

After reading it I think that the exact city is the least interesting fact they have to offer.
The only times I tried to use Coinbase to buy Bitcoins, they stopped processing orders apparently because the Bitcoin value was fluctuating too much, so I never got my Bitcoins... and I never used them since then.
Different people have different experiences, and it's not so simple as "don't chat with neo-nazis". Women, particularly, tend to get a lot more harassment than men do.
About time! It's insane that CAs have gotten away with charging extortionate amounts of money for a couple paragraphs of text that cost ~nothing to generate for so long.
I am probably the only person in the observable universe who thinks both that (a) a full ban on encryption is stupid and unenforceable, and that (b) leaking details on how surveillance is done in 2013 by certain Mr. S. was an incredibly stupid/egomaniacal thing to do.
Why we may actually not be in a tech bubble
Show HN: Approxitock – A playful ‘humanised’ word clock widget for Android
The Magic PrtScn/SysReq Key
After introduction of pkg (FreeBSD 10.0+), the packages are build weekly.
This is wonderful. Looking forward to reading this in the future.

One suggestion to improve readability: use text-align: left instead of text-align: justify on the body text.
Which is itself horrendous on a different axis.
They only appear to care about the customer experience when someone complains on social media, until then they have a history of being jerks to their users.

They closed my account after I made a (relatively small) wire transfer after not using their service for a while. The year before I made much larger transfers that didn't seem to concern them. Suddenly I needed to provide them with lots of financial information.

The law sucks and I don't blame them for this. But I have provided them with more than enough information to prove all of my income is legitimate, including years of tax forms regarding the income and other crap they absolutely did not need to look at.

What bugs me is that they continued to ask me for this information, which took time for me to compile for them, and they ignored me anyway after I provided everything.

Another thing that bugs me is that (they claim) their support desk software is the most secure method of sending them sensitive documents. Ridiculous. The icing on the cake will be when their system is hacked and I lose a lot of important documents that I was under the impression they would be removing, but clearly haven't.
Thanks! I just signed up for hackernewsletter.
>Solvitur Ambulando, it is solved by walking

This is really interesting, in my martial art, which I did extremely actively in my youth - but far less now -- one of the sayings is "Keep walking" and "Keep moving"

The "Keep walking" is even used in some of the learning of actual techniques -- you move into a certain position with your Uke, and then... keep walking... and it executes the throw.

Keep walking is also used when talking about meditation in their teachings as well... movement meditation.
Comment threads are infinite, sprawling, and often infuriating. It's nice to have a peaceful place aside from that. Us commenters will find a way to comment anyway.
Noted, I'll change the page!
Thanks for the links! I'm one of those people too who likes to read 'actionable' news. HN used to be great for that.
Wrong. Every programmer should know this stuff. You may not be directly manipulating memory in python, but you should know enough about memory (and other scarce resources) to know when you need to optimize your application. How are you going to know when you need to use __slots__ in python? Should java programmers just blindly throw -Xms<size> when they think they need it? How should they justify that?

We have GB and GB of memory in our computers today, but all of the "I don't have to worry about memory constraints" have snowballed. The application we run today are nowhere near as efficient as they could be otherwise.
Now, someone who completely doesn't care about whether terrorist attacks happen or not -- is that a rational party to have discussion with?

I doubt there is anybody who truly "doesn't care if terrorist attacks happen". But there are people (like myself) who can look at the numbers, realize that you are MANY times more likely to die by slipping and falling in your own bathroom, being in a car crash, drowning in your own pool, or being beaten to death by a cop, than you are to die in a terrorist attack. And after looking at that, I can say that I don't accept a trade-off that involves any loss of freedom, or increase in government scope/power, in order to reduce what is already a minuscule risk.

Don't democracies have well-established principles on how to deal with entities in power that try to place themselves outside of law -- without actually preventing those entities from wielding any power whatsoever? Wasn't that the entire point of having a president with a fixed term rather than a king?

Yes, and I will argue that it was the point, or at least part of the point, of the Second Amendment. (Yeah, I know this point isn't without controversy).
Microsoft announces it is working on a new Skype for Business client for the Mac
Really, you can focus on writing with LaTeX? Are we talking about paragraph after paragraph of text or scientific writing with images and formulas and code, because after writing my thesis in LaTeX my experience has been different. I've lost a huge amount of time trying to adjust images, debugging compilations errors, etc.

Of course the document looks clean as it should and stands out from the rest, but still, I wasn't able to focus on writing, I had to always double-check for errors. VIM plugin for latex helped a great deal.
Ad supported sites can't really use it since the vast majority of ads are still not SSL compatible, meaning you get mixed content warnings (and no ads / revenue).
I worked for a financial publishing company that prides itself on being more technically advanced than its competitors. (The nice thing is, it's easy to be ahead of the curve technologically in the financial services industry.)

Shortly before I left, the CEO started adamantly insisting that it was, in fact, a tech company. It was a nice thought, but underscored how much he did not understand about what that would actually mean. You're not a tech company just because you employ a few people who know what Angular is.
Where it's headquartered? Or where it's doing business? Microsoft, for example, is making a strong distinction between its operations in the US vs Ireland.
Yes, that is essentially what systems like Rust/Cargo do. It works great.
I haven't worked at a software development company where they didn't have an expectation of 40 hours and a set of "core hours" where you had to be in the office or available.

Sadly, I think we have to accept that the appearance of productivity (butt in chair, open office visibility) is more important than actual productivity most of the time.
Yahoo Mail is blocking ad-block users from accessing their email
I don't disagree. The story is interesting. I just realized that anyone who read the headline would want to know what city. I probably came across snarkier than intended.
That's just what they need to get another bunch of users to switch to Gmail.
As long as their business was conducted ethically, I have no problem with that means of obtaining bitcoins.
I used Mou, VIM and MacDown in the past. Vim of course doesn't have a preview (sic), but both MacDown and Mou offer previews.

http://macdown.uranusjr.com/
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I used an early prototype of this card and the experience is awesome. Super simple, it just works. App is a nice companion when you want to see the transactions you've made. Congrats to the team on the launch!
I know. This is an extension of that idea into something that isn't awful.
I'm actually working on a new start-up to try to take a stab at this problem. Would love to get some beta users, if any of you are interested: http://hellofocus.com/
I had a lot of fun with http://codecombat.com , I'll check that out too.
Making the version part of the type generally fixes these issues. Anything that could go wrong will nearly always go wrong at compile time.
I believe that comment is out of date, since there are multiple entries on the support forum about what to do if the contacts bloom filter fails to download. [1] [2]

But now you've got me curious. I'll dig back into the code and find out for sure.

[1] http://support.whispersystems.org/hc/en-us/articles/21274348...

[2] http://support.whispersystems.org/hc/en-us/articles/21247614...