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The Future of Technology Is Hiding on the Ocean Floor
Bitcoin Lightning Network Should Be Ready This Summer
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The value of version control
Same story in Boston, except that most of my friends still take Uber. I've had far better experiences riding with Lyft drivers and the drivers seem to enjoy working with Lyft a lot more.

Uber is my backup option now if there are no Lyfts available.
> Government shouldn't be involved, period. If someone wishes to do business with someone else, good (or bad) for him; if not, good (or bad) for him all the same.

First, that case law was settled over 50 years ago when we ruled segregation illegal. Contrary to your wishes, that ship has sailed.

Second, businesses are permitted to serve the public and subject to lots of laws. You can't say "I don't want to comply with the health code, and it's unfair that the government is using violent force to make me wash my oven!" Similarly, all three branches of government have definitively ruled that you can't refuse to do business with someone based on their attributes (race, gender, religion, etc.). There's no meaningful line you can draw between "I don't sell cake to gay people" and "I don't sell cake to black people". Both are explicitly illegal in most places and morally reprehensible in all.
Yes, but if you earned your billion on the backs of US peoples and infrastructure, you have to pay a toll when you leave.
> What's the next step?

Imho one thing that the Signal project suffers from -- and that a lot of open-source projects suffer from -- is poor documentation. They need document their protocol better, to make it easier for third parties to integrate with their system.

Signal still lacks a working desktop client (no, the one that you can use if you're running Chrome doesn't count), and I'm sure tons of people would be eager to do stuff like provide integration for Pidgin if only there was better documentation.
And that is just too bad since the radeon driver couldn't detect the Ratio of my monitor with a VGA -> DVI adapter (yes the monitor is ancient 720p only)
All right! I'm beyond delighted to read this -- to know that there are other fans of Pinker, Fischer, and Nisbett out there! Have you read _Bound Away_ yet? (It's the companion volume Fischer promised at the end of _Albion's Seed_; it doesn't deal with slavery alone, but with Virginia in general.)

Expressed this lucidly, I almost feel that the exception is those without a culture of honor, not those with one -- that the North and not the South is the odd one. After all, while it's hard to drive off land, it's perfectly possible to burn buildings and loot crops... unless the farmers can band together into militias more powerful than the invading army, which the North certainly does.

My anecdotal experience as a Southerner living in the North was that everyone cared about conformity and hierarchy (including seeing where you were in the hierarchy), and was hostile to the South's combination of a hot temper and a live-and-let-live outlook. But you don't want hot heads or amiability in a territorial militia, and you do want a lot of concern with hierarchy; otherwise your militia will be uncontrollable.

You wouldn't happen to be in the Seattle area, would you? I'd love to get together, and to have the chance to talk about these sorts of things in person.
I'm only surprised they managed to get a good data source. MasterCard has been trying to sell prediction services while keeping their data internal. AmEx is likely to follow soon if they haven't already. This'll get really good once it is merged with cell carrier data -- what you buy, when, and where. Last I checked, the carriers were also trying to monetize while keeping the data "anonymized". Where you live, work, and hang out. Which allows inference of hobbies, who your friends are... Utopia!

It took some searching, but I found AT&T's location information services. Not sure exactly what this provides, but it seems to be selling your location, so we can provide timely offers when you're walking past your favorite store.

https://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/solutions/mobile...
Don’t be like Mark Z
You have made this point seven or eight times that I have seen and it is bordering on cultish repetition. It is definitely spam at the least. We heard you. You're wrong, you became personal in your wrongness and accused a guy who does security for a living of not understanding E2E (do you?), and it's probably time for you to take a break.

I implore you to do so. Post haste.
No, Apple should definitely not be in a position of running TOR nodes. All it takes is one National Security Letter and a Secret Court ruling that makes it so they have to compromise that endpoint for law enforcement / anti-terrorism organizations.

They need to keep doing what they have been doing with the recent FBI case and bringing these things out into the public's view. There is far too many things happening to subvert our privacy that we know nothing about...
Indeed. Ideally, we'd like to include a mini-datacenter module, allowing for data storage, streaming, and processing.

We'd like to be able to gather metrics from these machines all over the world, and identify trends in things such as the weather, water production and consumption, efficiency, power generation and carbon sequestration, as well as identify opportunities to improve the operation of the machines through software updates.
"Here in Bend, for instance, you must have a driveway with not one, but two parking spots. Land of the free indeed..."

Where I live people don't leave any room for parking on their own property and all of the streets are completely jammed with cars, every inch. You don't hardly dare move your car if you've been able to find a spot.

Is that freer?
If that's the only argument you've heard for taxis or against ride-sharing, then I'll submit to you that you haven't done much research on this topic.
There are certainly a lot of queries we have and will optimize, to see the work see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42

BTW to prevent simple N+1 queries we use the Bullet gem https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/7ff974e38e24a9b...
So this worked as I expected it to.

UI wise it'd be nice to click an area of the PDF and be prompted for the kind of input I wish to create on that spot, but I survived.

Admin wise it'd be nice to be able to say "and don't allow them to click OK without having placed at least X signatures".

I pitched this to our IT team and our HIPAA compliance team. Their issue was they don't want NDAs and similar things they sign in the cloud. "If they would open source this or sell us a self hosted version, we'd use it and it'd be better than what we do today."

It'd be nice to be able to get an identifier in the subject line that'd let me parse out documents received back from people by person. I can see how sending this out to 60 people would become unwieldy. Perhaps that's how you "get em" - you allow this for free but you have to create an account to organize all you've sent.

The number of companies who send me a doc file to enter my cc info in and send back to them is endemic. If I as a business owner and credit card holder could turn it into a PDF, use this service to fill it out and securely send it back, it'd be good. I suspect this isn't the killer use case, but I mention it.

This is a legit and useful idea. Have an upvote.
> which would mean that they should also know they would need more than just 'it came from this IP endpoint' to have evidence of his wrongdoing.

That's why they raided his house.

> Would they raid a Starbucks if someone used Starbucks wifi to distribute CP?

Of course they would. Obviously aiming to try and catch the perpetrator in the act, but also at least to get a good look at the network configuration.

"CP came from this IP endpoint" means crime is being committed using this network. It's perfectly reasonable for them to go and investigate. And as others point out, them knowing how Tor works makes no difference - otherwise people making/distributing CP would host their own exit nodes with the sole purpose of being able to point them out to police and tell that CP it's not their traffic.

They didn't jailed him, they checked if he is in fact involved - and finding no additional evidence, left him in peace.
I guess? Hence the indicator. It would be nice to know if someone switched phones and e2ee turned off, for example.
People have verified that Skype is NOT secure[0]. Also Skype has not claimed to use end to end encryption.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/scorecard-update-we-ca...
But everyone's always known the Escalade as an overpriced truck. The quality of a (cheaper!) Cadillac sedan is going to be vastly better.

I wouldn't call the Model S the most well-manufactured ANYTHING. I love the car (and have money down on a 3), but, in particular, it was glaring how cheap the plastic panel on the floor between the front seats (with the rubber strips you can push out the bottom) and the flat hard plastic panel with USB sockets behind it were.
Well, that doesn't apply to Portugal (I don't think I've ever seen a non-white or foreign taxi driver), yet I still prefer Uber.
26-year-old hacker gets $3M for self-driving car startup
When I purchased my last car in 2014, the order from mom was safety above all else. It had to have 5 stars in the 3 major categories.

Dad had to give up performance. The car is jumpy, very loud and sluggish when accelerating 50-60 mph and the stereo is just bad.

Tesla has satisfied both mom and dad by achieving both the safest and highest performance car ever mass produced, and, the total cost of ownership, factoring in depreciation, fuel, maintenance, insurance, is 1/2 an equivalently priced gasoline car over 10 years.

That is why they have >300,000 pre-orders for the Model 3.

Environmentally friendly, never have to smell gasoline again, drive in the car pool lanes, these are all icing on the cake.
I agree, which github now does for you

https://github.com/blog/2141-squash-your-commits
Sounds like we're gradually edging - ever so slowly - towards the plot of Bladerunner...
I use LLDB.

A lot of Firefox developers don't use Visual Studio for debugging, even though it's an option. Some of us just prefer command line debuggers.

That said, it would definitely be nice to support Visual Studio debugging, and we're in a position to benefit from all the hard work upstream LLVM is doing to support it.
How Colorado Is Turning Food Waste into Electricity
Voldemort.
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

(just a guess)
How “Open Execution” Will Replace Open Source
To be clear, I never said things should never be taken personally. I tried to imply that is impractical to try to come up with super specific criteria when you take it personally, and when you should let it go. It's going to a fuzzy thing that depends on specific circumstances. Sure, you can have some general principles, but I don't see how one can try to formalize it.

I also didn't say you should ignore your feelings. Personally, I make an effort to be aware of my visceral reactions when things happen, and to not let my automatic, gut reaction run away with itself. But I do want to my understand my feelings, not just stifle them.

However, I also try to emulate the mental space of the person who said the thing, and the wider impact of me speaking up, and only say something if I feel it will be received in a productive fashion and will be generally beneficial. Highly personal criticism (even when constructive) usually loses effectiveness if it is overgiven, and is also a socially expensive thing, as it often feels negative for the recipient in the initial instant. It also carries less weight when coming from someone you don't know that well or haven't built up trust with, which makes the expensive interaction to give feedback often times a waste, with little ROI.
Artificial intelligence could be another tool for blind programmers
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I really want something that provides better code review than GitHub. The described code review features of Gerrit sound promising. But the article says you can't submit a series of commits for review as a unit, you only submit a single commit. Is that really true? That seems like a rather awful limitation of the system. Sometimes my changes work well as a single commit, but often, especially when doing more complicated things, it's much more preferable to use a handful of related commits, all of which should get reviewed and merged as a batch. Does Gerrit not support this?
Correct. The only people who can read a message (or hear a voice call) are their intended recipients.
Obfuscation would be a better term here. They've made it hard to reverse-engineer, but certainly not impossible.
It sounds like I should visit Russia, then! Whatever else can be said about them, it sounds like the Soviets really knew how to build a city.
It's now signed "Jan and Brian."
HP’s world’s thinnest laptop is as thick as a AAA battery
What's the issue with merge commits and git bisect?
Maybe a little more heavy handed but I use huginn for exactly that. Read in numerous RSS feeds and digest them into my email box. It does a lot more than that too.

https://github.com/cantino/huginn
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I was talking about people renouncing their US citizenship to avoid American taxes.

That article is talking about renouncing their US citizenship to avoid an administrative nightmare. The people mentioned in that article probably owed little to nothing, but just didn't realize or didn't handle the finer details of their dual-citizenship very well.
Have you thought about using an attached TEG [1] and a few 9volts to increase the amount of water produced as an optional strap-on.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_generator
Yes, this is unprecedented but allowed for by the constitution. What you need to understand about the Icelandic Constitution is that it's mostly a translation from the Danish one from 1944 with patchwork reforms here and there, substituting Monarch for President. The Danish Monarchy is a figurehead not intended for much besides being a symbol of national unity. Much of the powers that the Constitution seems to grant has been interpreted to be in a similar vein to the Danish arrangements, in name only. Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson has been an activist president, interpreting his role more participatory than his predecessors.
Great - if only PayPal cared as much for its customers as its employees
I just checked this with a group chat I'm in, and it said that it was not yet enabled because one person has not yet updated.
He still remains head of his party, and his fellow party member took over for him. Seems fishy.
They already do, for tax breaks, regulatory arbitrage, etc.. We might as well cheer it being used for good.
Ask HN: Ethics around analysing leaked Turkish citizenship data
So yesterday the Turkish citizenship database was leaked and made it to the front page. I downloaded the sql file but haven't looked at it. A friend warned me about ethical boundaries.

What are the ethics around analysing the data there in aggregate form (not individual info). Meaning, if I scrub the ID numbers off, and date of birth off, and look at top X names/places etc.
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LiveComment is the missing link in the Evolution of the Web
And a significant slice of the tech industry must confront the fact that not everyone in that industry can or should cram themselves into a narrow peninsula and a handful of other, mostly coastal, cities.
Nobody is disputing the idea that prices will rise as wages hopefully you aren't so greedy that you would rather they not make a living wage
It's referring to the feature, so it should be singular.
We're on it in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/operations/issues/42

Sorry that we're not there yet.
I don't think your links support your "nope."

US electricity is about 1/3rd coal, 1/3rd gas, and 1/3rd non-fossil, according to your second link. If we take the figures from your first link and total up 1/3rd of the electric coal emissions and 1/3rd of the electric gas emissions, you get about 140, which is a lot better than any of the non-EV options. Never mind that the grid is getting cleaner all the time.
It has integrated CI whereas GitHub requires using a third-party CI system, it's had Reaction Emoji (called Award Emoji for GitLab) for a while now, it has "Merge when build succeeds", CE is entirely FOSS, etc.
Since you turned this into a discussion about race, I am inclined to speak up. Racism and discrimination is about who has power. Caucasians in America have all the power and hence the struggle of the minorities for equality. I admire github for taking a stance in the diversity debate( although I have yet to fully familiarize with the details). I know that people from all demographics desire equality and a more fair world. I'll work towards that world and keep build things.
Thousands of years is a really long time, especially when you look at how awful people are at learning the lessons of just a generation or two ago.
If you suspect an order is fraud, don't go out and say to the criminal "hey, I declined your super suspicious order!". Instead, play dead. Pretend they got you. Tell them "thank you for your order", behaving exactly the same way as if it really was a successful order.

The name of the game is to make things cost more for your enemies than they cost for you. Removing instant feedback is key. Instant feedback is great. Delayed feedback is costly.

This is in large part why most DRM and anti-cheat failures happened. Companies and developers need to think about the economics of what's going on. It's not the side with the trickiest mechanism that wins. It's the team with economics on their side.

(Amateurs: tactics, pros: logistics)
That was Elon's estimate - they haven't released any details on what any of the options/configurations will look like, just the base price of $35k.
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Thanks for your efforts with the Vis editor...

You can do this with any other editor using "vipe" from "moreutils" package. It just opens $EDITOR with stdin input (put to a tempfile) and then reads the tempfile and dumps it in stdout.

printf "foo\nbar\nbaz\n" | vipe - | sort # invokes $EDITOR
Elon Musk posted a guess that the average Model 3 configuration will cost about that much. There is no average price from the bookings, as the bookings are just a $1,000 option to purchase, and no options pricing or configurations have been made available yet.
That is not absolute. The binaries are the absolute truth.
Moreover, repeating such statements only makes the situation worse - especially if its repeated on the (inter)national media scale. Most police officers are normal people (just like most people in general), but when the society in general starts treating them as enemies, it doesn't help them doing their job in peaceful and responsible manner.
Don't forget Asus Zenbooks
fair enough! https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/03/possible_gove...

i think this is why source is a must. if a user compiled and installed the app themselves, and hypothetically had the entire stack above it be similarly open, then it would prevent the kind of attack mentioned.

do you agree?

if the source is closed anywhere in the stack, or pushed out in a walled garden as it is currently, then it allows the vulnerability mentioned.
>How do we know he doesn't operate the node for the very purpose of watching kiddy porn go by?"

To support a warrant, the question has to be the other way around. As with any activity the could be in proximity to illegal activity, it's not, by itself, evidence of anything.
> - Redacted to avoid flamewars.

Aww... shucks.
You do, in your own comments. You pass judgement. Take for example this:

> The whole "prettiness" thing seems like a bit of a fetishism more than about productivity.

When you say:

> I've never gotten an explanation that satisfies me

You have gotten explanations, you just pass judgement on those explanations and assume they are based on a fetish. You effectively wave your hands and dismiss them.

So, you are passing judgement based on your own admitted ignorance. And you go out of your way to hinder any investigation you claim to perform.

Whatever. You suffer for your self-inflicted and self-admitted ignorance.
I assume it's based on this report, which has the same numbers: http://get.hired.com/rs/348-IPO-044/images/Hired-State-of-Sa...
Counter-counter:

* Turn-by-turn largely takes care of this, and most drivers I've had are amenable to a friendly suggestion of, "go this way, it's a little easier."

* I've never had a problem. Definitely have had more crazy / dangerous taxi cab drivers - especially in Florida, whatever that anecdotal point may be worth.

* Being able to opt in/out would be nice for data collection purposes. But I think many people would appreciate that paper trail, especially for business purposes.
yes, sometimes stuff happens to "ordinary people" and their life is ruined. They have no choice but become participants rather than mere by standers that is how social change happens. ( edited for grammar)
Hardly taking a scalp when he remains the leader of the party and another member of the same party takes over for him.

He's also still rich as fuck and very powerful within the country.
Requirements likely driven by sales/marketing team: either they see the gap or they hear it from potential customers.