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Even that example's not quite right; it's the judge compelling the safe deposit maker to _give_ the key to the FBI, such that they can use it in perpetuity.
The problem with this is that had they made the exact same post on Hacker News an hour earlier or later there's a good chance it would have gotten no more than two or three upvotes and never even made the front page. If that had happened, which in fact is probably the most likely outcome given repeated experiments, does that mean that it was a bad business idea? (For example, this is a great blog post but it's getting no upvotes, and so most likely no one is ever going to see this comment.)

I think the first idea was probably just a bad idea and they could have figured that out on their own or by asking someone.

The second idea, if they had gone and asked professors, they probably would have gotten mostly folks telling them it was a great idea. But in fact that was still a bad idea also.

And the third idea was a legitimately good idea, but I think the validation they got was as much due to luck as anything else.

So I like the idea in theory, but it's trickier than it sounds. A lot of people make the mistake of not doing any market valuation. But even if you put in the work to do this, there is still a very high value to building something that has a lot of optionality going forward.
Before Braille Was King, It Had to Win the War of the Dots
I tend to agree, but gave up on fixing C++ a decade ago.

I hope Rust is the future; it deals with all these issues. But Rust seems to be starting out at the complexity level it took C++ two decades to achieve.
It is and it isn't. The explosive capacities of WWI were generally directed at the front, at the soldiers. While cities were involved, the civilian v. soldier death toll is not comparable to say, modern day Iraq. And nothing in WWI involved the literal desruction of large cities as was seen in WWII.

Now go back a couple hundred years, back to when cities were occasionally put to the sword, but that is beyond even this guy's memory.
What has happened is that your transaction has propagated through the network, and some payment processor that they contract with has seen that transaction and confirmed that it has been sent out.

Since it hasn't been included in a block, it's not considered to have really happened yet. You could send out another transaction with a higher fee, sending the coins back to a wallet you own, and a miner could see that and decide to take the transaction with the higher fee over the lower one.

One thing that is preventing that from happening too much right now is that the default bitcoin software will refuse to relay transactions of coins that it has already seen, even if they have a higher fee, so it can sometimes be hard to do this in practice. But there's nothing that says this must be the case, in fact early versions did allow later transactions with higher fees to supersede older ones, and they are planning on re-introducing this feature as it will allow people to increase fees on stuck transactions if we start hitting the block size limit and transactions with lower fees start getting dropped by miners.

Or, even without this, you could have sent out two transactions simultaneously, one to the restaurant and one to yourself. If you happen to know which node it is that the restaurant is using (or at least figure out which nodes are topologically closer), you can send one transaction in that direction, and another to the rest of the network, and have a good chance of the one that sends coins back to yourself being the one that actually gets mined.
> most malware requires and counts on having admin privileges on target machine.

If you really believe this, run rm -rf ~ on your computer right now. Also rm -rf /Volumes/* (on OS X) or wherever your network/external drives are mounted on your OS. Since you don't have admin privileges, nothing bad happened right? Because that is the primary goal of ransomware.

Anyway, this specific malware doesn't even attempt to acquire root; it operates entirely as your local user. And there's no installer package, so why are you complaining about them?
Just to note, the proposal the author lists as "so complicated" is actually just fixing an inconsistency in the grammar where "class" and "typename" are not always synonymous in the context of template declarations. Specifically:

template<class T> class Foo;
template<typename T> class Foo;

Are the same. But, not when declaring a template with a parameter that is itself a template:

template<template<typename> class T> struct Foo; // Compiles
template<template<typename> typename T> struct Foo; // Does not compile

The proposal allows the second form to compile, fixing this inconsistency.
I am a bit surprised exceptions were not mentioned in the context of returning an error value.
Reminds me very much of Eisenhower's farewell address from 1961:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower's_farewell_address
> It's also a sad commentary on the state of CPU designs, where we now have GHz processors that can't sample the state of an IO pin in 200ns to save their life.

Not really! It's much closer to a general purpose microprocessor than a microcontroller. How many desktop PCs can sample GPIO pins at all? Much less at some kind of rate that you find reasonable. You're going to use the parallel port? Sorry, that's about three layers of abstraction away from the actual processor.

Complicated things are complicated and the beaglebone is a full, real computer. I think it's comparable to desktops around the turn of the century. I don't think a PIII could sample GPIO pins at 100MHz even if it had any, which it didn't.
And even more ironically Obama got a Nobel peace prize, for free. The Nobel commission is a good joke.
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A lot of people would disagree with you. Sure, once something requires higher bandwidth or longer-form 1:1 or 1:few communication, it makes sense to switch modes but there's a lot of value in short-form synchronous communications. I don't actually use IRC/IM comms a lot myself (other than as a sidebar for video meetings) but I have in the past and would do more in different citcumstances.
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The Twitter page is a perfect example of why we use JavaScript for this stuff: because full-page loads just to hide a div is a shitty user experience. Scroll positions jump around, you've made a client-side action into a server one, etc.

The whole of html is full of these. Let's be blunt: it's a terrible platform, just as JavaScript's DOM API is terrible. Everything about the web is bad, but we make it good thanks to the combined might of the computing industry.

JavaScript's a mediocre language being used to pave over the weaknesses of a layout engine that can't centre things vertically and can't navigate without slow server interactions unless you want to confuse the user with one long page full of #anchors.
Peace brings money to everyone, not just the ones who wage wars. War is a capital appropriation by the few.
Running on a PaaS always helps.

This is letter known but AWS has a pen testing service.

https://aws.amazon.com/security/penetration-testing/
Just like FDA we need public or private organization that certify all IoT devices for their internet security level.
Donald Trump's incoherent.
Serialization. And don't tell me that it falls under "bug-ridden the minute you write it" because more defensive programmers than you and I have been using it responsibly in a dozen other languages for more than a dozen years.
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Yeah, I'm completely fine with that as well - I'm happy to see the NSA do computer-security stuff that isn't this dystopian "monitor everybody all the time" nonsense.
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Ww1 was pretty much a soldiers war. You had none of the massive bombings of ww2.
I think marketing spend is the right term. They pay for marketing salaries, but had no marketing spend.
No, historically a surplus of men was created by running a polygamous hierarchical society where the richest x men get 100% of the women and the remaining men are now surplus (although some amount of them can be absorbed as low status labor in risky occupations)
Twitter for Mac seems overly bloated and takes too much room in my Dock. I also hate it showing up in my CMD+Tabs.
He did prevail. He's worth a billion dollars.
With respect to Iran it's worth reflecting on the fact that the US engineered a coup in Iran to depose Mosaddegh in 1953[1]. At that time the UK and US did not like the winner of a largely democratic process that installed Mosaddegh as Prime Minister and that had forced the Shah to flee Iran. Operation AJAX got rid of Mosaddegh as Prime Minister and brought the Shah back. The US then supported him as he weakened the democratic process and angered the population leading to the Iranian Revlolution. One could argue that the 1953 coup sowed the seeds of the 1979 Iranian revolution[2] that created the Islamic Republic of Iran who then went on to start the nuclear program that you mention. The US also supported Saddam Hussain in Iraq's war against Iran in which 500,000 or more people died. Who knows where the region would be if it were not for the 1953 coup.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution
I am the 99%. Someone should write a blog about it, websites that get one massive spike but have no retention.
If you view marketing as an expense, you have a valid point. I view marketing as an investment and in that context, if you need to be lean, investing intelligently in marketing is one of the most important things you can do to increase cashflow.
Music streaming in 2016?
What do you guys think about music streaming in 2016? what would you improve on Spotify or Pandora? Any way it could get better?
Maybe swimming a lot underwater causes nearsightedness. But then, in the article, I see:

> She thought the first theory was unlikely, because a fundamental change to the eye would probably mean the kids wouldn’t be able to see well above water. A simple eye test proved this to be true – the Moken children could see just as well above water as European children of a similar age.
While Memrise and Duolingo might seem similar on the surface, the focus of Memrise is more on vocabulary, whereas Duolingo is a bit more holistic.
It almost did happen. Embrace, extend, extinguish.
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This is a fairly neutral review of the literature:

http://cannabisandpsychosis.ca/more-information/what-do-we-k...
I'm not that plugged in myself, but send me an email (username @ mit) and I can put you in touch with someone in the know.
Good PR, and also grounded in truth. If the DOJ understood the technology and implications of what they were requesting then they would not ask for it. Literally every person who speaks out against Apple begins with "I'm not a tech expert, but I know our world is going to be different if we can't get warranted access to criminals' phones". They completely fail to see how the private tech sector has fought for public safety. Comey said,

They [Apple] sell phones, they don't sell civil liberties, they don't sell public safety, that's our business to worry about. [1]

https://youtu.be/g1GgnbN9oNw?t=3h16m18s
I've got an eye on the DangerousDSO: http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Dangerous_DSO

"
Dangerous DSO is a new logic analyzer/oscilloscope prototype we've been using in the lab. It combines a 16 channel logic analyzer with one 50MHz oscilloscope channel with +/-10volt DC range. The combined tool shows what your signal does between 0 and 1, which helps pinpoint noise and other electrical glitches.

Our goal with the D-DSO is to make the simplest possible oscilloscope reference design. It doesn't have range selection or AC coupling, it's a basic design that shows the bare minimum needed to capture an analog signal.
"

They also have the Logic Pirate for $30 which does SUMP: http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Logic_Pirate

Logic Shrimp for $35: http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Logic_Shrimp_logic_analy...

And of course the Open Bench Logic Sniffer for $50: http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Open_Bench_Logic_Sniffer
Sorry, I meant this: http://blog.mindedsecurity.com/2011/05/dominator-project.htm... (pro version now at: dominator.mindedsecurity.com). This project also implemented JS taint tracking, but for FF.

They released 2 versions, an open source version and a pro version, both of these have lagged far behind current FF versions, presumably because it's not easy to maintain these patches. That said, DOMinator pro is still used by some pentesters (makes the browser run really slow though).

At a 20% or so performance hit, it sounds like this code is faster. The one thing which would be even better would be if I could use it :p
Very cool! Mine only shows the vectors/direction of flow :c
Is anyone surprised by this?

It's the same thing that happened when alcohol prohibition was lifted.
My favorite retort to those who blame the post-WWII tech boom on war: if that's true why wasn't WWI the cause of a similar boom? And why weren't the Aztec or the Mongols much more advanced?

War can certainly accelerate and mobilize what's already there but I find the argument that it creates unconvincing.
Samsung’s monstrous 15TB SSD is now shipping
The absurd award of the Peace Prize is not without precedent, though. Consider that Henry Kissinger was a laureate in 1973.
This:

> And thus, the divisional structure was borne. It [...] remains the model for nearly every corporation of significant size, except, notably, for Apple.

Seems like an overly simplistic statement. I'd be happy to read numbers from current research. Any relevant link?
It is absolutely way too high. Here's a paper that puts it at about 1 per 13,000: Lagasse (2002): http://student.purduecal.edu/~jbojczuk/Research/Anesthesia%2...

It's worth noting that their data contains zero observed deaths in ASA Physical Status I Patients, which are basically healthy adults.

I would assume things have either stayed the same or improved: Sevoflurane was just starting to be used around the time that the data were taken for that paper.
I remember hearing about it on news and it very much sounded like Obama and his advisors did NOT want the nobel.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11220675
U.S. Congress authorized both Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milit...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Resolution
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11220675
So they asked a group of people who don't know how to build a model of human intelligence to model the trajectory of their modeling of intelligence and when, once they succeed, the model will model something even more intelligent than that?

And then they took the most popular guess.

I'm sorry, I don't believe that gives us any information about the future whatsoever. That methodology is nonsense.
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How does not being forced make a statement not disrespectful?

Not having children is a perfectly valid lifestyle choice, a childless person saying that raising children contributes less to society than they do says a lot about how they fundamentally view themselves.

It reminds me of the polar opposite of what gay man once said to me: "I love straight people, they make all the gay people" in reference to another man talking down about 'breeders'
The desire to "build a wall" is a reaction of locals along the border to the realities there, and that reaction diffuses through the rest of the population who aren't on the border but who see problems that they perceive (or are persuaded to perceive) might be solved by curtailing illegal immigration. They may be wrong about, or miscalculating, the ultimate consequences of a wall, but the perceived need for some kind of "wall" is coherent in an immediate sense.

What do you think is incoherent? A plan to build some kind of physical wall (barrier), or a serious plan to keep people from crossing the border outside of the normal immigration process, or both?
Watson can speak with emotion
Or that utility (in this case social/sexual) far outweighs things we devs might get hung up on. I keep using that app despite having it crash multiple times a day.
> I learned to
accept the responsibility for my own actions, and to blame myself
and no one else for circumstances of my own creating. I learned that
no one else was keeping me unhappy but me

Do you really need LSD to come to such mundane conclusions. It looks like something my uncle would post on his fb wall.
There is another article on the front page of HN currently pointing out a surplus of young people in developing nations. So there is little if any moral imperative to produce children in this day and age - if we needed more, we could just as well import them and solve a demographic problem in the donor country as well!
Pretty terrible. Didn't even bother to learn what my current career is or anything about me at all for that matter and just started telling me to give money away and worry about farm animals. I guess if you're currently enrolled at a lib arts college and have no idea what you should do with your life this could help.
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I am surprised by the number of Tucson, AZ residents (where I live) that think there already is a large wall, all across the USA. You certainly see a large wall in Nogales, AZ/ Nogales SON. It is only there for the TV cameras, since a few miles out of town it is back to dual strand barbed wire cattle fence. Everybody who lives within a few miles either side of the border knows this - people in Tucson 60 miles away are not so clear.

They watch the evening news, see a big wall on TV, hear Trump talk about extending the wall, assume it's the same wall all across the USA, and then continue on with their life like normal humans.

http://tomohalloran.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wall-noga...

compare that to the photo of the barbed wire fence along the border in the other comment.
If you want to trip out, just take a lot of cough syrup (DXM) and a lot of Benadryl (DPH). You can buy both over the counter. You don't need LSD.

https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/DXM_%26_DPH_in_combination
This. We are all played for suckers.

This is partly why I wish for Trump to get the top job. The amount of window dressing in society will come down drastically as the clown makes misjudgements at every turn and contradicts himself by the hour.
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On the mac? Macs don't have viruses!
birth control in the hands of women when they want it is a wonderful thing.
Approximately 30% of all women in Africa use birth control, although over half of all African women would like to use birth control if it were available.

Many cannot afford contraception in any case.
There is a big difference between posting a motivational quote on Facebook and internalising it to the extent that it sounds like Cary Grant did.
While all that is certainly true there were likely at least some advantages to ancient thinkers which we don't enjoy today.

If one was an elite a bunch of tasks that take up our modern time were taken care of via slavery. No thinking about bills and filling tax forms. No thinking about resumes. No job search. No washing the dishes. No worrying about parking the car and the apartment lease.

There were less distraction in general. No computers, very few (if any) books. The body of knowledge was very small. You could learn about pretty much everything that was known if were in the right situation. Today I can't even keep up with a small percentage of JavaScript frameworks much less everything else. At that point one could maybe really drill down and specialize and focus for long periods of time. Of course you did have disease and sore teeth and probably a short lifespan to contend with... but there were likely some advantages as far as flat out "thinking" goes.
Did you know that your eyes can adapt to being open in sea water?

Wow... I didn't know that. Losing my mask and panicking while diving has always been a concern of mine. I'll have to try this out. Regardless of being able to see clearly, it'd be great to just not be bothered by an onslaught of seawater.
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Is there some kind of VM I could play with this on? Happy to go to something like Buildroot but I've never thought of arp like a daemon, it's always just there.
It may be unrealistic, but it seems coherent enough to me. What's so crazy about border control?
All these have been discussed elsewhere. This is pretty much saying, "hey, TOR doesn't do anything special to prevent people from getting metrics.
Depends how its grown. RAND estimated somewhere around "225 per pound for a successful, wellmanaged
operation, plus in-kind contribution of labor...". This was done in 2010 and so its a little outdated now but still a great read.
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/working_papers/201...
It's easy to think of much of modern web design as tiny, frivolous details that just wastes a ton of time to create, but click through all of these and tell me when you get to the last one that the lack of animation isn't jarring.

The human eye and brain is tuned to deduce effects from action that involve movement like in the real world, and a seemingly small detail like good animation can help make an interface more friendly.