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> just to weed out who was paying attention to the styling over the content

I definitely understand the intention, but I think it's misguided. Does he also fart randomly during his talks to weed out who was paying attention to random noises over the content?

It's a rhetorical question, of course. I've been to several of his uniformly excellent talks, and no he doesn't, but I do think the talks are hindered by using Comic Sans not least beacuse it causes people to ask the question "why"!
What is the rational reason, if any, for gripes like these?
The time to have this discussion would have been in like 1993 or so. Now, IPv6 is what we have, and the standards are what they are, flaws and all.

The only reason I can think of is psychological: People don’t want to learn new things, so they find reasons to dislike the new thing to be able to pretend they don’t need to learn it.

Also, the double-click argument is crap for two reasons: Firstly, it can be fixed by configuring your local software, and secondly, IPv4 addresses also had this so-called problem.

> IPv6 is still in the early stages of adoption

It really, really isn’t. It might look that way to you, in the US, at your home endpoint, but move to the backbone or outside the US and you get a very different picture. ARIN in the US just happened to be the last of the RIRs (except AFRINIC in Africa) to run out of IPv4 addresses, so the US was able to put off switching for longer than most, and the whole of the US is now consequently behind the curve.
You've nailed it. At Peergos [1], we are doing exactly that, with privacy as our primary focus. We layer encryption on top of IPNS + IPFS to get a distributed private, access controlled filesystem + social network that hides your friendship graph. IPFS is a wonderful model to work with.

[1] https://github.com/ianopolous/Peergos
That will work as a way to strengthen the hashes (a few other people pointed that out as well).

My point was that if you have a system which can go straight from SHA2(password) to bcrypt(password) then the system must be storing the plaintext of the password, which would be very bad.
Then you're basically arguing semantics while agreeing with the sentiment in question here. You're saying that startups do best when they focus on delivering value to users first, and then figuring out a path to profit that preserves the first value. Which is a strategy that investors who make big bets on potential would also promote.
Important background linked in his subsequent tweet: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/18/fossil-fu...
Presumably copies are in the relevant deposit library. Can anyone access the Library of Congress?
Coq is either too immature or too strict. Writing a proof in coq is far too difficult for what it does.

I agree that we need a proof 'compiler' though.
http://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2011/10/they-aint-wealthy-...

"Shaq is rich; the white man that signs his check is wealthy. Here you go Shaq, go buy yourself a bouncing car. Bling-Bling . . . . I ain’t talking bout Oprah, I’m talking about Bill Gates. OK!. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah’s money, he would jump out a …window. I’m not talking about rich, I’m talking about wealthy

- Chris Rock"
There are some fonts you should never install, even if they look innocuous:

http://fontmeme.com/freefonts/134412/the_trojan_horse.font

And other fonts are so beautiful that merely looking at them can cause harm:

http://re-type.com/notaweblog/2013/03/06/new-font-from-retyp...
The issue with the dot alone is that in some cases it's indistinguishable from a domain name.

"dead.beef" is bound to exist now that ICANN is going crazy with top-level domains.
It's interesting to think that somehow I am better off than most americans living in a third qorld country even if most have at least 5x my income just because I don't have any debt.

We don't have credit cards with higher than 0 credit limit here. Those credit lines sound very generous to me.
america greatest country world number 1
Someone on Reddit suggested two dots.
Additional side note: if you're married, it's a total of $300k/year for the household.
In one episode of Veronica Mars, Veronica "infiltrates" an animal rights group where this guy gives a speech, ending witht the words, "people wearing fur coats are the target, not the enemy." [Wikipedia says it's episode 3x10, "Follow the monkey"]

It just makes sense. If you want to convince people, you don't want to antagonize them.

There are limits, of course. Some people are just so completely racist, homophobe, antisemitic, whatever, one can't reach them, certainly not charm them into becoming more decent.

But for most other people, the friendly approach is far more promising than the confrontational one. This goes for smaller issues, as well, and is well worth keeping in mind in day-to-day interactions with others.
What if you tell me my car's broken when it's not and request 100 dollars from me to fix it? That would be fraud.

So you go up to a server and lie to it, and it gives you something; is that not acquiring things through deception?

The structure of your argument suggests that e.g. breaking into an ssh server by issuing a login request with a known password which it responds to, isn't illegal. And further, that if data is acquired from the server, there is still no crime - the ssh protocol too is just requests to the server, it's all bits down the line. It's clearly nonsense.
Consider the following approach. Talk to the founders of the consulting agency again. Say something like the following.

I am currently in a high risk, potentially high reward situation with a start-up. I love the technologies and the creative nature of the work I am doing with start-up X. I know you are looking for additional employees right now, but since you are growing quickly I suspect that you will be looking again in 6 months and maybe again a year from now. I would love to sit down with you once every 3 or 4 months over a cup of coffee and share some of what I am learning and hear about how things are going with your consulting agency. If things start to fall apart at the start-up or it becomes clear that transitioning to a FT employee is not really going to happen we can talk about whether you folks have an opportunity at that time.

And, by the way can you give me a list of the 3 or 4 biggest gaps in my skill-set? One's that if I spent some effort learning would make me even more valuable to your company at some point in the future?

I suspect that this would make you stand-out to the consulting agency and may help you hedge your bets on a risky venture.
> Observe what it takes to fly a B-52

Not that it's your main point, but I think B-52 has 8 engines because they're an old design. They're about 10,000 lbf each, while the engines in new planes provide more than five times the thrust, so two 787 engines are stronger than ten B-52 engines.
I remember learning about midpoint displacement as a teen and having its recursive implementation blow my mind. At the time, I don't think I could ever implement it correctly because, like Steve notes here, most explanations really elide about bunch of details around how you do it. In particular, they aren't clear how you do two "stages" of midpoints: corners to sides, then sides to center.

Much later, I got it working, but I was disappointed with the visible seams it tends to lead to. After some trial and error, I came up with an algorithm I liked better for the game I was trying to write at the time.

I thought it was cool enough that I wrote a little tutorial. It's the very first piece of writing I ever put on the web, I think. It's still online (though, alas, I lost my old robot-frog.com domain ages ago):

http://stuffwithstuff.com/robot-frog/3d/hills/index.html
I specifically said it shouldn't be used to stop hackers. Let's continue anyway as there's a lesson here.

"after other encryption software failed to work."

Nothing else worked because all your recommendations were unusable. It was using Cryptocat because it might be private or doing open communications that wouldn't be private. There was also a time window.

"Guess what happened right around June 2013?"

They completed the meeting without the NSA getting shit. Greenwald got the data. Snowden escaped. Comms remained private until an NSA analyst discovered both the intercepted data and Decryptocat. It worked.

Great story. Now, what app do you recommend for a future Greenwald that's so easy to correctly acquire and use that I could give my grandmother a 3-4 step flashcard and she get through it without help & minimum hassle? Cryptocat passed my granny test. Nothing else on a desktop did so far.
Why not just use FreeBSD or OmniOS ? Why do I want to use Ubuntu. So I can say "Bro we use the ubuntu it rocks" ?
US here. I don't think I've ever heard "short sighted" used in this manner. Near sighted is definitely the norm.
Lenders buy income streams; income streams are assets, from the lender's perspective.
And a one that runs on mobile as well.
you forgot "that would have resulted in the disclosure of customer credentials".

I'm speculating, but having been a fly on the wall at this kind of meeting before, here's my theory of how this went down:

Manager: "So somebody got the key to generate one-time password tokens for PagerDuty. How did that happen?"

Engineer: "I have no idea."

Manager: "What about that Lish vulnerability? Could it have been that?"

Engineer: "Could have been."

Manager: "We don't know?"

Engineer: "I mean, they could have gotten it that way, but we don't have logging for security vulnerabilities, because, you know, we would just fix them instead of logging that they occurred..."

Manager: "Okay, I want a second opinion. Time to bring in $SECURITY_PARTNER."

$SECURITY_PARTNER: "What Engineer said. And here's a bill for our time."

Manager: "What about if the customer screwed up and lost a device? Could it be that?"

Engineer: "It could be that."

Support: "PagerDuty said something about wiping their phone."

Engineer: "If they did lose a device, it would be indistinguishable from the evidence we have."

Manager: "So, maybe we weren't hacked after all?"

Engineer: "Maybe not."

Manager: "Any other theories?"

Engineer: "I just want to go on record... AGAIN... that I don't trust our ColdFusion infrastructure at all. The people responsible have all left, and none of us understand it. We need to rewrite in a cooler language, like Python. And hire some actual security people."

Manager: "Sigh. We've gotten enough flak over this that I guess I'll put it in the budget. Okay, good meeting everyone. I'll write this up in a blogpost, because we need to show transparency. That way customers are at least as confused as we are."
> All food may have protein, but all food does not have essential amino acids (which cannot be made by your body) in the quantities required to maintain health.

> the idea you can get sufficient protein by just eating any old plant is.... wrong.

You're quite mistaken. If what you say were true, a warning of it would be clearly made by medical and nutritional authorities. Alas, no respectable organization says it, precisely because it's a myth. You can easily search on Google to find evidence which contradicts your post. Here are just the first two results I found when looking at potatoes as an example:

> The high nutritive value of potato protein can be understood when its composition is compared with that of whole wheat (Table 2). Apart from histidine, it contains substantially more of all the essential amino-acids ; this superiority is particularly striking for lysine, the amount present being similar to that in a typical animal protein.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13536266

> For a 120 pound adult, five potatoes (960 calories) supply over 100% of the recommended intake for all essential amino acids.

> It's pretty difficult for an adult to eat a plant-based, vegetarian diet that doesn't provide all EAAs, as long as caloric needs are met.

> Finally - The pool of AAs that our body uses to manufacture its own proteins isn't limited by what we eat. Normal daily turnover of our cells provides a substantial pool from which to draw amino acids. Bacteria that line our colon also manufacture AAs, including EAAs, that we can utilize.

> It is a misconception that plants provide "incomplete protein", regardless of what Ms. Lappe advanced in her 1971 book, "Diet For A Small Planet."

http://fanaticcook.blogspot.com/2008/04/if-all-you-ate-were-...
Sure, but "wealthy" doesn't just mean the top quintile. "Wealthy" is a more exclusive club than that. When I think "wealthy", I'm thinking top 1%.

But this is one of those words that should probably be set aside for the purposes of debate in favor of something more specific, because arguing over the definition of a term that doesn't actually have a standard definition isn't terribly productive.
If the FBI were to do this, would it be possible for Apple to counter it in the future by splitting the key across multiple entities, some in non-US jurisdictions, in such a manner that all of them would have to agree to sign anything?
I'm a Vim user, so Caps Lock is already assigned to Escape. :)
a) This is from April 2014.

b) While I couldn't immediately find anything debunking this particular study, it's hard to take at face value considering all the research showing correlation between high-vegetable diets and lower mortality[1], lower risk of gastrointestinal cancers[2][3], etc.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23599238

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_and_cancer#Processed_and_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_and_cancer#Fiber.2C_fruit...
Shocking how many stargazers have 0 commits on GitHub.

Stars should be expanded to have different contexts. I want to be able to distinguish projects that I am likely to use from projects I just think are cool.
I know and agree with everything you say. I was just replying to my parent who was trying to spin this as an advantage for Marissa, under the context of "all else being equal".

Under your context, which is indeed the reality, both my comment and my parent's comment are irrelevant.
Ask HN: Best fitness and/or yoga app?
"That's all I was saying. I'm not trying at all to hand-wave the proven insecurity. I'm saying that the only thing they got right was the one thing that secure products have consistently gotten wrong. "

That's my main claim. Usability and setup phase were between 90-100% of my positive remarks on it in my review. I just added it still has value for crowds without tech-savvy opponents if (a) they won't use truly secure stuff due to hassle and (b) they are clearly informed usable but weak tools can be breached. As one of a few interim solutions if nothing else.
Interesting - I'd not heard of 500px. Will check it out: my primary concern with Flickr has always been that it doesn't really enable discovery.
How good is Elon Musk at programming?
I'm trying to be charitable in my reading of your comment, but your argument seems to imply that the Supreme Court should have delayed the Brown vs. Board of Education decision until white southerners had already been convinced to desegregate. Or that the Civil War should rather have been a Civil Conversation, or a Civil Plea.

Also I don't think it's meant as a criticism of the novel at all. It just means the novel is deeper than a simple morality play.
i'm inclined to agree with the justice department here. we need a compromise before govt just takes over and we have a technologically ill-advised government body legally mandating a bad solution (ie crypto of a certain strength becomes illegal for U.S. companies). I think similar to what mike rogers proposed, a two key system, is an acceptable compromise. However, instead of the govt having the other key (and reasonably every other government that might want it, which is the primary problem with this system), the manufacturer instead is required to maintain the key. Then only under legal coercion of servicing a warrant would they decrypt a message. The manufacture has a fiscal responsibility of maintaining their key, as customers would otherwise not buy their products. While the manufacturer is not given the undo burden of recording every message (it is presumed law enforcement has this, but needs to decrypt it). This system gives people access to simple security, while allowing legal action to proceed as it otherwise has prior to widely available encryption. In addition other countries can seek similar legal action, keeping with the laws of their respective countries.
It's going to happen, so lets not fumble like we usually do with progressive shit, and leave it up to the idiots in congress to stumble through an unworkable solution to. Which means, instead of companies playing hardball and just denying requests (basically for PR purposes), they instead proactively design some kind of a compromise system.
Sorta like torrents vs dropbox.

storj is for paying people to store your personal data and ipfs is more for public data.

Of course you can use ipfs for private data too
That ... is easily the most unsual political ad I have seen in my life. To put it mildly. ;-)

I am tempted to think it was satire? I mean, this would not have been very appealing to Nixon's target audience, would it?
The concepts are completely different. Here are several examples:

- Imagine yourself writing down the story of The Shawshank Redemption (hey, this approach worked for Terry Brooks!). How much do you think people would like it? More or less than the version Stephen King wrote?

- Imagine yourself writing the same story -- in Mongolian. It's the same story, written down.

- Tolkien's The Silmarillion has several excellent stories in it, which people will be happy to hear you tell them about after you go through the laborious effort of reading it. It's not a coincidence that the material of The Silmarillion wasn't written for publication.

- http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003X9775Q is an example of a fantasy novel with a fairly vanilla plot and some of the worst writing I've ever experienced.

- Pushing Daisies http://www.amazon.com/Pushing-Daisies-Season-Lee-Pace/dp/B00... is a comedic soap opera with superb writing and no particular plot.

- Imagine two people giving a lecture on the same topic. One of them is entertaining, one isn't. The first one had better writing for the same content.

- Imagine yourself playing Beethoven's fifth symphony as a one-man band. The music is widely acknowledged to be a great work. It turns out that the delivery matters. In the analogy, the music is the story, and the manner in which you actually produce it is the writing.
Yes. For local or long tail stuff.
Which is fraud.
In America, short-sighted means you think in the short term or don't think ahead. So a short-sighted person would accidentally double-book friday lunch, and is only focused on the current quarter's profits.
Which makes me wonder why they're even with Linode.
This is much more interesting. Accessing data instead of accessing files or addresses makes more sense if you're making an application.

With such a database system, it would be trivial to build a decentralized forum, for example.
I know the point that you're making, but I'm not sure that the simulation has the 8087, or that the BASIC ROM would use it if it did. The software implementation has some interesting quirks:

print 0.1/10

0.01

OK

print 0.01/10

9.999999E-4

Ok

print 0.01/5

0.002

Ok

print 0.001/10

0.0001

Ok

print 0.1+0.2

0.3

Ok
Color me shocked that most MBA students don't have enough math skills to intuitively choose an optimal payoff strategy.
> Retroshare requires an intricate knowledge of GPG

This is not true. Pasting the certificate of your friend in a field does not require intricate knowledge of GPG.
Thanks for the feedback! We have answers to all these questions over at the many repos that we use to work on IPFS. Look around in:

- https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues

- https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues

- https://github.com/ipfs/apps/issues

The technical answers exist. Please look for them! I'd love to write personalized answers for every person that asks, but i better spend my time developing. Also you should look at the rest of the discussions too, not just my compressed answers. be part of the discussion, raise your concerns, and have them answered.

For sake of saving you time, some short / compressed answers:

- mutable data: look into ipns (in the ipfs paper or repos linked above) and look into CRDTs. CRDTs can layer cleanly on top of ipfs for distributed mutable state. if you haven't seen CRDTs: http://hal.upmc.fr/inria-00555588/document

- access controls / certain info remaining secret: data encryption and capabilities. you mention Tahoe-LAFS, yep!, we can (and will) build a cap system similar to it on top of raw ipfs objects (ideally actually collaborating with the excellent Tahoe-LAFS team directly). --- oh and many users want easy selective disclosure for encrypted multiparty records. we've not built this in yet because we have other priorities right now. if you'd like to contribute to this we'd love the help!

- "it will have to not only cover every existing HTTP usecase" -- we don't aim to cover _every_ HTTP facility, instead we can power a nicer model for distributed data, where you replicate datastructures directly. This looks a lot closer to the data models people use in apps today (think single page app models, {backbone, react, meteor, ...}. these are layered on top of APIs like REST, but can trivially layer over IPFS too)

- pub/sub: you didnt mention it, but it is necessary for fast (subsecond) updates to mutable data in the large (>millions of nodes). we're working on these designs now, and impls coming in a few weeks/months. (some simple non-scalable versions already proposed and implemented to get started, but the long term solutions coming later).

I ask you please take a deeper look at the comm channels of our community, and that you voice your concerns + questions in our FAQs and other relevant repos. That way we can improve our models and systems based on your input. And if you have time to help us implement some ideas, join us! :)

more links at this answer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11137313
We aren't. Did a full migration in August, 2015.
Can anyone use the OS/2 module? It just errors for me across several browsers.
Terrorist’s Apple ID Password Changed In Government Custody, Blocking Access
It is indeed not correct. They are not functionally equivalent to their asynchronous equivalents at all - your entire event loop will be blocked for the full duration of the operation.

This may sound like "not a big deal", but even an operation that takes 1ms will cause noticeable lag at ~50 operations per second, and block everything approaching a thousand.

For emphasis: they block the entire event loop. Not a single request, not a single client, not a single operation or event. The entire application for every user everywhere.
I get what you're saying, but credit cards are unique: the advantage credit card companies have over those other industries is that there is essentially no lock-in, and your old cards continue to work while you're in the process of switching eg your autopays over. It's a very switch-friendly industry.

Remember when you couldn't take your cell phone number with you and so pretty much nobody switched carriers? It was a massive pain. Now it's easier than ever to switch, except most people are locked into multi-year contracts. Switching friction = high, but not impossible. As you said, TMO is trying to compete here.

Cable has monopolies on towns, so there's 0 incentive. People couldn't switch even if they wanted to. I suppose there's satellite, but you'll still be paying the cable company for internet -- they get their pound of flesh no matter what. Switching friction = impossible.
We're on a forum because we don't want to RTFM or be given a LMGTFY, we want a social experience.