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> Does anyone know how anonymous transactions remain if e.g. law enforcement take your (unprotected) laptop from you?

This is why you should do full disk encryption, and travel without your hard drive. At the end of the day, there's probably forensic methods on your laptop that would be far more damaging than just deanonymising your past transactions.
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I have read that the political tension in Washington is at its highest level since the U.S. civil war.
> What's the rationale for that limit?

The rational for such limits in Europe is always the same: the law of diminishing returns. Increasing the max sentence after a certain point no longer has any impact on crime rates, so why do it? It costs money and creates unnecessary human suffering.

Notice that Europeans do not place the same importance on retribution as Americans do. You hear less talk of "paying your debt to society" and such things. The modern European justice system is mostly seen as a mechanism of deterrence. I suspect that this is because Europe is more secular.
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Sure, everyone is rich like in US.

Let me know how my countryman earning on average 380 € monthly are going to shift to iOS and Macs.
Yep, this is the right way! Thanks,
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Crap cultural shock. At least they didn't renumber meridians :)

And it seems that Taiwan is indeed same color as PRC. They really are crazy.
I said that auto companies could pursue their self-interest by turning regulations to their advantage, rather than opposing them. I didn't say they would embrace environmentalism in the truest depth of their hearts. Accepting emission standards for the entire industry and then cheating on them is fully consistent for an actor driven by self-interest, as long as they think they won't get caught.

Given the obviousness of the above, the real question is how you came to make such a silly post. My best guess is that you simplified the positions into "companies accept emission standards = companies GOOD on environment, but VW cheating = VW BAD on environment", and that's how you saw a contradiction. Please take a bit longer to think your posts through.
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> Anecdote: I asked a certain 6-year-old child “how much is 15 and 15”and she quickly answered, “I think it’s 30.” I asked how she figured that out so fast and she replied, “Well, everyone knows that 16 and 16 is 32, so then I subtracted the extra two 1’s.”

Wait, is this girl some kind of base-2 native?
> Bitcoin is already very untraceable. Yes, there's a public ledger of all transactions, but it has no identifying information. There are some public addresses whose owners are known, because they volunteered that information. Exchanges also know the owners of certain addresses. But that's about it.

That isn't true. Bitcoin transactions can be traced like almost all other transaction types (even more so because it's a public leger), the only difference is that the end points are pseudonymous (sure, they might not have your names, but they do have unique identifiers, like account numbers). It's a mistake to consider the above as being "untraceable" or anonymous.

> Bitcoin's address space is huge, something like 10^48. I can make a thousand of them in a few seconds, along with the private keys. I can send the money to any of them, and you will never know who owns it. I can send my money between these 1000 addresses as much as I want, and all you will see in the leger is money going from A to B to C, just like the rest of it.

This principle is all about mixing to "clean" bitcoins, but it doesn't provide strong anonymity properties (if all of the addresses you use for mixing are only used for mixing your bitcoins, you haven't improved your anonymity).

> Bitcoin network doesn't know any difference between me buying something on Overstock, or me sending the money to my brother across the globe, or to myself.

Other than the globally unique addresses, which can be used to tie together groups of transactions or owners of accounts.
sometimes attempting to fool or convince your own people you get the side benefit of doing the same to a foe
No one knew how to help during a panic attack, so this autistic man made an app
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Cool. The only thing not yet emulated is the screen blackout forcing you to login or register, but otherwise it's decent.
I hate go packaging. I want to fork a package for my private purposes, maintain it in my hosted repo or somewhere private, but no, I have to change all the required import paths to my repo path. Or I have to provide it in vendor folder, or have custom gopath folders, but then go get does not work, I have to git clone and put it in some weird old repo's path. You could use relative paths, or package names but no, you had to use site urls so you could make it harder for anyone that does not work open source or private. I have not found a better solution for forking a repo and working it on my own besides vendor folder solution.
I believe most European criminal law is divorced from the concept of retribution. Only deterrent, the 'reeducation' of offenders and the active prevention of keeping a dangerous person locked up are valid reasons for incarceration.

On a practical level, I believe the idea is that longer sentences do not provide any additional deterrent. Nor do they provide better opportunities for reintegration. Both effects probably see decreasing marginal utility with longer sentences. Even more practical: most violent crimes are committed by males aged 18 to 30. 18 + 16 = 34.

On an ethical level, European law often relies on the concept of 'dignity' which is ill-defined but (for this purpose) interpreted to mean that even hideous crimes do not justify the destruction of all of a person's future.
"This thing was going one day when a friend of mine named Edward Fredkin, who’s a professor of computer science at M.I.T., came in, and he said, ‘That sounds pretty good. How did you get it to make those sounds?’ I showed him, and we spent the afternoon making more sounds. Fredkin formed a company to manufacture the machines as toys.”"

I believe this is it:

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2014/06/meet-strange-wonderful...
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Interesting results. While I understand the microbes do affect how we process foods does our diet affect how they work? As in, if long term she eats grapes then perhaps either the microbes in her changed or the microbes themselves adopted a new behavior.

So the idea is, put a group of people on a strict diet long enough to affect which microbes they have and the exposure of the microbes to the diet. Then take three different directions from there and monitor how it all works out.
Also different mindset in terms of UX. These are web spirited devices. Material design was like a CSS3.5 demo. Android 4.4 was still lean in terms of usage[1], Material is eye candy but has zero value on in-the-street interactions.

Also, how much of the performance grade is due to the reviewer ? I see people saying 'one need at least <2013> hardware ...' as if people couldn't do anything before. Coming from someone on a 2007 laptop .. I wonder how much social relativity plays here.

[1] When I boot an old 4.4 phone, I feel relieved to see simple centered gray/blue menus, even after a year of Lollypop 'training'.
"Technically" there's nothing that would prevent it except the inability of a national central bank to control/dictate the interest rate on a global, gold-like currency.

Oh, and the actual inability of the said central bank to bail out comercial banks by printing bitcoins.

Oh, and also the inability of a global superpower to manage its tremendous debt by playing with interest rates.
Google shuts down yet another service developers rely on. Its getting quite a bad track record. Trust is not so easily rebuilt. I think more developers will avoid depending on google services in the future if they have another choice.

Edit.
What happens to the thousands of webpages that link to jquery or google fonts on google.code. This must break lots of things ...
Well, they probably wont switch and I didn't say that this will happen. I also don't care if company X or Z wins or loses.

My point is that the parent just declares what he hopes will happen as if it was a fact without giving any kind of evidence supporting it. And that is exactly what he/she did.
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it uses a RenderThread now.
Says who? Legend?
The idea was that people should never make API-breaking changes for URLs and instead offer only new interfaces or make a new package at a different URL. Funny coincidence that google itself broke that idea.
Autotools is actually quite simple to understand.

If your install needs autotools, your install is broken. :)

The number of projects that need autotools in this day and age is vanishingly small. A small script (bash/python/perl/ruby) that checks exactly what you need and then runs make instead of copying 15 years of cargo cult m4 is far superior to autotools.
https://github.com/tools/godep should solve all these issues. Yes, it vendors packages. But it happens completely automatically and you can switch to your own forks at will.
I think the only realistic solution to this is to vendor your go dependencies. If Github ever changes its URL schema, a whole bunch of stuff is going to break.

The Go maintainers have conflated what a library is and where a library is. That's an important distinction that should not be glossed over like this.
Here's a similar hoverboard demo, using Wii balance board, Kinect, Rift and Leap Motion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO6Yh_XLQNY
Thank you for the writeup. I loved the charts and the writing.
> what's "third-party"

That's already defined by the same-origin policy.

> a common optimization technique

Optimization should never happen at the expense of security. (and yes, 3rd party scripts are a security risk)

> increase the number of parallel connections.

I believe that trick is to save bandwidth by not sending the (large) cookies that would normally be sent to the normal domain.
People might reply to this with benchmarks, but if you actually analyse the java code where java beats or is comparable with C/C++ you're going to see zero object allocations.

I've noticed that tends to be true in general for benchmarks of high-level languages which show them performing as well as or sometimes even better than C/C++ --- the code performs so well because it's essentially using none of the other language features that most code in the language does. I touch upon this in my other comment here about culture: the language theoretically allows you to write quite efficient code, but it doesn't look "idiomatic" or perhaps isn't a "best practice", so it's discouraged and isn't done. The entire dogma of avoiding any optimisation compounds this problem even more, since once programmers finally realise they have performance issues, they've already created such complex and inefficient code that it's even harder to do any optimisation on.

On the other hand, idiomatic C tends to be written in a simple and straightforward style that is naturally quite efficient already. C++ is similar, although templates, OOP, and all the other new features can lead to inefficient code if not used in moderation.

I suppose the ultimate example of what could be called "intrinsically efficient" is assembly language. With Asm, every instruction, every byte you can save from typing is one the machine also doesn't have to execute, so you're basically forced to optimise as you write. There's certainly no desire to overengineer things, simply because of the extreme tedium and futility of doing so. With no IDE to help you generate classes and autocomplete indirections, it really changes your perspective of what constitutes efficient code.
It will be great fun when Github is shut down. Many npm packages, jspm, and more are using hard coded links to repositories or even paths in repositories.
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It works great indeed. My main pain point though is that if you want to dual-boot then every update of OS X will destroy your Linux workspace.
Trade has ability to create wealth. If we increase global trade, it will also increase the total wealth available to the poor + middle class. Some portion of the surplus value will also go to rich providing the capital.
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As much as I regret that humans don't have 8 fingers at each hand and count in base 16, I think it's more likely that she simply is/knows a computer nerd.
> I have to change all the required import paths to my repo path

GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1 will be default behaviour in Go 1.6. So you don't have to rewrite the import paths anymore.

> Or I have to provide it in vendor folder

What's wrong with that?
interesting reference list - this course seems to discuss specifically layers for cognitive systems. I think "society of mind" addressed more general concepts and ideas about cognition and semantics.
Uff just in time I moved some projects I relay on from CG to Gitlab... developers didn't bother.
My experience is that the toolchain works fine but performance is lacking, especially when sharing many files between the OS X host and the Docker container.
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This is exactly what keeps me on Mercurial.

I can teach Mercurial to CEO's, artists, students, etc. and some of them will be better than me on it with a week or two. All of them "get it" and it's "low friction"--they can commit and forget about it. People who need it can handle merging and the rest can ignore it. People who need branches can use it and the rest can ignore it. etc.

git doesn't allow this. git is all or nothing. Either you inload the whole mental model, or you WILL wedge your repository somehow when you execute a command that doesn't quite do what you think it does. At that point, you will spend 4 hours combing Stack Overflow for the answer. Or you will just pull up the filesystem copy of the git repo you made before executing any command other than "git pull" or "git clone".
from 2014, discussion from back then here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7858276
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I guess the saying, everybody is different applies here.

I still remember the days when I could eat 3 - 4 pound of beef, along side with mesh potato, or 12 inch Pizza, or whole bucket ( 10pcs ) KFC, per meal! And these meals would come with Coke as well. in Tea time i will eat Ice Cream, eat lots of yogurt etc.

I dont do lots of sports, may be once a week maximum. Otherwise I just sit down playing World of Warcraft or watching TV.

All while I don't gain 1 pound of weight! I had a VERY hard time gaining weight when I was in the age of 16 - 22. I even tried those weight gainer and protein. And does't work

Now that i am a lot older, trying to lose some weight, I find out a lot of these theories simply don't make sense when i was younger. If you are what you eat, then I was definitely eating 4000+ calories per day and not getting Fat.

I think, everybody has a different body type that reacts differently.
I'd find the thought of only having 30% of your brain left functioning pretty scary - rather be dead than barely alive.

Everything eventually ends, I don't see the appeal in pushing that only to suffer.
In the Go packaging scheme, they shouldn't. The idea is that a URL is API-stable. Changing the folder structure changes the API (package names).

For this reason, you have wrappers like http://gopkg.in/ , which permit some freedom in the form of git tags.

(I fully agree that Go packaging is very sensitive to API changes and incidents like sites disappearing altogether.)
Even more interesting: In the current Firefox nightly inputs with `type="password"` on insecure origins are being marked explicitly as insecure. This also includes common anti patterns such as loading an iframe from a secure origin on an insecure page.

There's a screenshot of this on my latest blog post[1] and another article[2] on this topic.

I am very happy to see browser vendors pushing for HTTPS adoption and forcing the hands of developers. Further highlighting poor security like this also means that users are made aware and can opt out of using websites with poor security practices.

1: https://hugotunius.se/2016/01/24/how-browser-vendors-are-pus...

2: https://www.fxsitecompat.com/en-CA/docs/2015/non-https-sites...
Anecdotal examples of the management of information and personal for this and similar areas. While in the military we had a sergeant transfer in from that area. They were flown to and from the base on transports without windows. While there were a lot of on base persons apparently there were quite a few who rotated out weekly. Later in the 90s working for a rent a guard company we had a special group doing perimeter security. These guards could not so much as bounce a check, get a traffic ticket, or be charged with a crime, without risking their jobs. The idea was that you don't get leverage on people who work in areas where things can be seen. You also tend to have some of the most over the top patriotic types who take pride in keeping the trust

All that really circles back to the first part of my comment, the CIA and military had people dedicated to management of the story and the people involved. Legends and myths can be created, you just have to plan it out and act on the plan correctly
The Romans also had writing. Writing helps a lot in stabilizing a language. Take a look at English before it was written down - it changed constantly and rapidly.

10,000 years is 500 generations. How many generations of family stories do you have? I have zero from further back than my great-grandparents, that's 3 generations ago, let alone 500.

The claim of 10,000 year old stories is very extraordinary, and so extraordinary evidence is necessary to be convincing.
10% of every mined coin, not transaction. Big difference.
The post is from November 3, 2015. I'm not sure why this was resubmitted now.
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The flipside of that is having people with lenghty but minor criminal records doing life without the possibility of parole for drastic offenses such as being the middleman for a $10 marijuana transaction, or stealing a $160 jacket [1]. I would gladly accept a rise in petty crime to not live in a country where such barbaric sentences for nonviolent crimes are even possible.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/report/living-death-life-without-parole...
Yeah, I remember toying around with the Chrome extensions years back, but then Google changed TOS (or something) and took down my extensions. I vaguely remember them being "just-zip-files" with different extension.
I dunnoh. The Linux Foundation/EFF/FSF/etc. seem to have done a fair bit. ICANN too.
That relies on the fundamental assumption that all criminals will reform their way after a few years in jail and therefore deserve a second chance. Most criminals should but I don't think everyone agree that all criminals should. The alternative to the death penalty for the most dangerous criminals is to be able to lock them up forever or until such age that they cannot cause any more harm.

In that respect I see these short sentences for very serious crimes (multiple murders, etc) to be more dangerous than helpful.

Obviously it's only a problem in countries where you have significant levels of violent crimes.
Services come and go, Google or else. Unlike Reader, code.google.com is not something I will personally miss.
So 16 years is the magic point (for Danes? for [Western] Europeans? for all human beings?) beyond which imprisoning people has no impact on crime rates. Do you have any evidence that 1) that's actually the case for Denmark or anywhere else, and 2) that's actually the reason the Danes and others have set that limit?

That's a strange use of the word "secular", for which the Oxford dictionary that Google uses lists as "not connected with religious or spiritual matters". What's particularly religious or spiritual about the idea that the justice system ought to be about meting justice?
> Hence why social networks and email clients are created as apps now

I think a large part of the definition of "application" is subjective, personally I think social networks, such as a forum or twitter suffer from being an "application". You want to benefit from SEO, fast loading, responsive design, accessibility etc. However a chat app, that's personal and contains ephemeral content is a much better candidate for an application. I expect to see a different setup from other users, I don't want it to be searched, I expect different experiences on different devices etc.

Another good example is tweetdeck vs twitter. One is very personal and customizable, the other is essentially a generic and universal between users.

I think we are entering a phase of "everything is a single page app" because it's interesting and exciting. Similarly to the early days of mobile of flash development. Hopefully in a few years there will be a renaissance of the simple webpage, and application frameworks will be reserved for the use cases they really make sense for.
It's not exactly the flipside, rather the other extreme.
> inconceivable

I'm skeptical. Bears used to be very commonplace and a big (literally) deal to anyone who lived in N. America. I don't find it inconceivable at all that bears would figure prominently in N. American spiritualism, which would include the stars.
it reboots itself randomly about weekly

Hearing about things like this makes me wonder, "What happened to the concept of uptime?" Recently on HN there was discussion about how Windows 10 would force reboots to update, and make users lose all their unsaved work.

20 years ago, I remember Linux/UNIX users would ridicule Windows users for their frequent crashes and need to reboot, and pride themselves on months or even years of uptime. Now we have Linux-based Android that appears to be just as unstable?
This is really an argument about whether or not proprietary systems are inherently more secure. I run Arch on my main system, and when a vulnerability is disclosed, it's often patched within hours. Windows is littered with bugs, vulnerabilities, and security holes. Older versions have been left to rot, leaving thousands of systems vulnerable.

Of course, it could be argued that the weakest link in the chain is the user, but with a vulnerability like this one, I don't see how that applies.
If you haven't been stuck in queue behind a check-writer recently, presumably someone else does your in-store shopping for you. Or maybe you only shop late at night, after the old ladies have gone to bed? That demographic just loves to write checks, and most USA stores accommodate that preference.
It might "just" (not to be little it) be shortcut she has learned, I also used tons of my own shortcuts for answers when I was smaller (read: used to not use calculator). I could do smaller calculations like that fast and when my parents asked how I came up with them and when I answered they didn't believe me.
Do you foresee GitHub shutting down in the next 5 years? I certainly don't.