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Is generating ed25519 keys slower or faster than generating self-signed certs?

Nothing wrong with OpenSSH supporting the option to use certs. They can be useful to some users.

But the entire X.509 scheme to my knowledge was based around some idea of third party verification.

This gave rise to the business of selling CA "services". Problematic to say the least.

And still to this day, "self-signing" appears to be disfavored. Or perhaps the openssl binary is just too loaded with options for users to learn the commands to generate CA and server certs and keys.

Whether it truly is or not, ostensibly "SSL/TLS certificates" to the public seems to require third party involvement.

ed25519 keys do not have this problem. And generating them is relatively fast.
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With Spotify, the trouble is that paid listeners subsidize free listeners. Artists and labels are not going to consent to a plan where free listens cost less than paid listens.
Most Americans don't really have a social life? News to me...
The normalization of everyday surveillance
I'm helping a startup in the grassroots lobbying space to improve how citizens can effect change. Turns out elected officials really do care a lot about their constituents, more so on average than lobbyists. Unfortunately it's hard to get the contact information for the staffers of these elected officials and it's hard to know if the supporters of a cause live in the right district that the elected representative represents.

Anyway, the platform makes this all easy and is going live this summer. If anyone does represent a special interest and wants to help beta test for free email hn (at) strapr (dot) com
One research stated that people tend to post the best moments of their life on social media. We want to share our achievements, travels, experiences. It creates a problem for others. They see these pictures and feel that their life is not that awesome and that they should do something wrong. The youth is influenced more than others. From the other hand, Instagram and other social media motivate people to take nice pictures, create interesting descriptions. We get skills that can be used at work if you are on a marketing side :)
Don't stress the "public servant" overmuch. He was a buccaneering captain of private industry who was given five years' leave from his employer (ICI, Imperial Chemical Industries) to come and sort out the railways.
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Roughly the same thing as the Beeching cuts is currently happening to night trains on the European continent. There is demand, but due to a combination of high track access charges, the fact that train operating company management is only interested in high speed trains, and lack of vision by the governments and EU, night trains are being cut drastically in both Germany and France.
Another thing that hasn't been mentioned is age & school status. From 18-23 I worked part time and never had to pay taxes. I was part of that group who zeroed out, and now I contribute $20,000 per year (proudly, I might add). Am I a moocher?
Yet another reason that we should get rid of FICA taxes as a separate thing and roll them into regular old federal income taxes.
The original comment was about turning lights on and off. You implied FIND is better than motion detectors at this ("your solution creates more problems than FIND..."). In most cases this is false, due to the negatives I outlined above.
Absolute Legend. Here's an hour long interview with the man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFWG51nGmGA
Following on from this: access to rail is now seen as a potential boom. In my area, areas with rail access are outgrowing areas without it [0].

http://www.northjersey.com/news/population-rebounds-around-t...
You could go the way of a UK Ltd company, 4 hours to set up via an incorporation website. I've used it to set up companies - US Ex-pat living in the Czech Rep. Works all across the EU.

(At least until the Brexit happens)
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At best you get a relationship with an improper power dynamic embedded in it. I can't imagine any workplace would even allow that to continue.
For a map of what we've lost, here's a map I researched and drew, covering Southern England, the Midlands and Wales: http://www.geowiki.com/New_Adlestrop_Railway_Atlas.pdf

Haven't had time to finish it (paid work gets in the way...) or update it for recent reopenings, but it gives you some idea of the network we used to have.
Easily solved -- let's all stop using petrochemicals of all kinds.
One reason: It's dangerous to shout it from the rooftops because a lot of people will accuse you of lying. Being branded a false accuser can be fatal to your career.
Are you serious ? All of this is fixable in software, in a way that would just penalize revenue from (too) fast readers.
Self-published authors who went “all in” with KDP Select/Kindle Unlimited are furious about this. You can see the discussion on Kboards:

http://www.kboards.com/index.php/topic,234330.0.html

A few days ago someone shared a link that showed the free KU books in one of the categories filled with scam books, but it looks like a lot of them have been removed:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_pg_97?rh=n:283155,n:!...

The other issue this brings up is how Amazon has been pushing authors to join KDP Select/Kindle Unlimited and the Spotify-style payout structure. It’s a raw deal for most authors, the exception being prolific/well-known authors (and the scammers). Anyone joining the program gets some nice marketing tools, but they have to remove their books from other marketplaces (Google Play, iBooks, etc.) and end up cannibalizing the sale of digital downloads which pay more (typically 70% of list for titles priced $2.99 and above).

Like Spotify, Kindle Unlimited is great for audiences and the platform owner. The publishers/creators who can scale do OK. Everyone else gets the scraps.
Yea, a lot of people tried to sound like Ornette back then and couldn't quite pull it off.
Right. There is no easy, tradeoff-free way to automate the tracking and proportional payment process.

Which means that Amazon really does need to move to a more Apple-like human curation process for all new authors, and/or for all new titles. Doing so will immediately tank precious vanity metrics like # of titles added to the store each month. But the alternative is an ever-growing jungle of weeds crowding out the legitimate works. The more that happens, the harder it will be to eventually weed the garden.
I understand that, but it means that debian inevitably distributes buggy software in a supposedly 'stable' distribution.

And I don't mean buggy in the sense that all software is buggy. I mean buggier than the best compatible release version available.
For users that are using their own images, we also provide source for all our customization to the images so you can integrate functionality into yours as required.

The code used on Linux to integrate the OS with the platform for ssh keys, startup script, auto-expanding root-disk, etc: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-package...

For Windows, ssh keys aren't supported, however the platform has password reset built-in and starter scripts via metadata are also supported. Here's the code for the Windows agent: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-windows

If running Windows, you will also need device drivers: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-windows-drive...
That would devastate the global economy.
Quote: "Of course, as you can imagine, as a little boy, that peaked my interest."

No, it piqued your interest. Should I read on and find more of the same?
There's actually similar common wisdom in Germany that most entrepreneurs fail in their third year because of how taxation works (having to pay taxes for the first two years plus having to pay an advance on taxes for the current year) and many beginners forgetting that they will have to pay taxes from their income.
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This is what "being part of the problem" looks like.
Yep, pretty sure that was it. Thanks!
The reference to "inheritance" seems bizarrely out of place.
ha so there's a code? no ransomer _ever_ does that or the whole industry suffers?
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I agree that there should be less regulation, not more.

Sanders said that Romania has faster internet than USA, but it's not because the romanian government did something about it, but exactly because it was oblivious to it's development.

It started when campus students started laying ethernet cables to connect into a big LAN party. Then any kid with some knowledge of networking got some switches and cables and connected with his neighbors, sometimes connecting two or more blocks of apartments. When grown big enough, they got an internet connection directly from a backbone provider.
Soon enough, cables were flying around, from rooftop to rooftop, and almost everyone had 50Mpbs/100Mbps (and dedicated IP) for around 10$ a month (and most providers were registered companies, paying taxes).
The providers were usually small (hence were called "neighborhood networks"), but some grew big (2-3 of them grew to almost 1/6 of the city, each).

Thankfully, the government learned only to late of this little activity, and everyone was already high with internet.

The networks weren't regulated, but none dared to limit or censor (or cared to). They probably over-committed the bandwidth, but the speeds were good.

There were some issues. The block of apartments have something called an "administrator" handling the maintenance of the building. Some companies started bribing (or administrators demanding bribes) to deny access to competition in the block and cut cables.
Then there was talk in the parliament and the city hall to remove the cables (because it was "ugly"). But every cable cut during day reappeared over night.

At that point, the only alternative to those networks was at most, 256kbps DSL.

Lucky enough, a big provider came and bought all the big networks in the city, buried the cables, but kept the service (probably to avoid a fallback to the old ways).
I now have a 1 Gbps fiber for same 10$. They also offer unlimited SIM cards with unlimited 4G for 3$, but they don't guarantee signal coverage (mostly in rural areas).

So, increasing competition is the solution. No one will dare slow down anything, or if they will, a new player who doesn't will appear and steal the market.
well it's not a .com. Lots of little differences. Try it and you'll see.
Have you actually read Lolita.
This is super refreshing! I really hope that this community lasts. For me, even though I passionately believe in my project, the biggest problem is that I can't motivate myself on a day-to-day basis, so I end up getting distracted. But I do notice that when I discuss my project with friends and family, I can get rolling again. Going to a startup event gives that effect too, but lesser as I always feel out of place - I don't want external funding as huge as VC's, nor am I in a hurry to scale it asap and so on. It seems that "organic" growing is most suitable for my profile; yes I want to make a profit but I also want to make it a personal enrichment (my project is art/education based). But without peer "push", the project can stretch for years at this rate! A community like this could be a game-changer :)
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Uh, store a log file of every user action in that book, and send those log files to the mothership periodically, as internet is available? It does not have to be same day, just eventually.

Analyzing log files for duration/pages visited is probably easier than the equivalent for web server logs, and there are very many services that will analyze those for you.
the raison d'être for a bus stop is not to sell cellphones, purfume or clothing. It is exists to establish and protect a pickup/dropoff point. The bus stop would exist even if the no ads were ever sold for it.

On the other hand, the rambling, first-hand, poorly-worded 4 page review the latest sous vide exists solely to sell you that device. This is "content marketing". The text and graphics are inseparable from the intent to sell.

Somewhere in the middle is the Slate webpage that links to the sous vide review. It wasn't written to sell that particular appliance, yet ad revenue is very much top of mind.
It's news to people who don't know better...
Sorry to hear this pieter,no words to express ,you are an great human being
Ironically, since the 1960s, canals have been reopening at a faster rate than railways!

Many major canals have been completely restored (the Kennet & Avon, south Stratford, Huddersfield Narrow, Rochdale, Forth & Clyde, Edinburgh & Glasgow Union, Droitwich Barge & Junction, Caldon, Ashton) and still more are underway - including truly ambitious projects like the Thames & Severn (a canal across the hilly Cotswolds) and Wey & Arun (from London to the south coast).
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Outrage is not the answer, if you live in OECD countries you have a massive footprint that rivals villages of developing countries. So do something about it. No, your pre-order of Model 3 that is going to come 3 years down the pike, does not put a dent in your carbon footprint. It is one small step, the roads your Tesla drives on needs petro-chemicals, so do those perfectly manicured french fries. Oil industry is greedy and entrenched, and do not expect some sort of Egalitarian enlightenment not from them, Nor from SV companies that colluded to screw their employees by forming a Cartel. Understand human nature, and it will help you trying to see the problems through caricatures and hopefully to work towards solution.

Here is the hard truth, We are a fossil fuel civilization. The problems are complex, we can green wash and eat some organic pop corn, but that does not help.

edit: there are some serious people trying to bring real solutions, I find Vaclav Smil, taking it to the next level of thinking instead of the constant greenwashing marketing campaigns.
I'm sorry to hear this, Pieter. I don't have a question, but would just like to wish you well - as much as possible under the circumstances.
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"Honey"? Who on earth do you think you're talking to? Please tell me this post is performance art and not the way you actually talk to women in your real life.
Yes, but, it's ultimately a free tool to keep in touch with acquaintances at the very least. One that is opted-into..

Cost of Admission > Fax Era (less connected)
You don't think amazon can handle a few GB of log files every day for the entire kindle unlimited service? Really? Worst case you do some sampling.
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Brutalist 'hood = junkie area.
Some good ideas here, for sure, but this 1954 article exhibits the tone of the modern melodramatic shrill blogger, who uses flowery metaphor in place of data.
I have use NoScript consistently for years and I disagree with you. Essentially the only thing NoScript does is make it so when you haven't visited a website before, it doesn't automatically trust it. For the most part every single website I go to needs to have JS enabled for anything to work beyond just reading content.

And even then, I would say 70% of the time, some critical piece of content on a website does not work with JS disabled, be it images or text or video or etc.
Multiple renewable energy sources in combination, like solar and wind are a viable alternative. Also bringing down the Oil cartel OPEC, and having real market prices on oil would make the alternatives more viable.
In the UK we have only a few toll roads, and they are optional. So yes, it is entirely possible to have a road system functioning without tolls.
Why not use `env git` at all?
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Based on that article having your table of contents at the end of the book is probably trying to scam more pages. Obviously Amazon needs to fix their page accounting system but taking advantage of it in this way is pretty awful and his books should be removed until they are fixed.
I'd argue that the the OS X user who use git are a subset of Mac OS X users. In fact, a similar subset to that which uses Homebrew...
Good. Google Books is an incredible resource and this was a mistake. The Authors Guild are wrong to stop this scanning as it Google Books makes IMHO books more desirable not less.
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lets start with basics shall we, how do you produce steel with out "coke"?
The Wikipedia article on variolation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation) is pretty interesting. Edward Jenner's development of Smallpox vaccination seemed much less revolutionary to me once I learned about Smallpox inoculation/variolation.
The difference is negligible. When you buy a car coming from another EU country, you pay the price without VAT(the dealership has to give you an ex-vat invoice). Then when you register it, you pay the VAT of the country where you register the vehicle. Most countries in EU have VAT between 20 to 23%, so in the worst case, you are paying 3% more, in the best case, you are saving 3%.
Fundraising for funds is actually pretty hard. Founders that do it tell me it's harder than fundraising for your startup because LPs are stodgy.
> I've only ever heard of startup used to refer to a new business that hopes to become extremely scalable.

I think the recent popularization of the Facebook story, Google rise to dominance, and Apple's romanticized origin story have all contributed to many people thinking of "startups" as isolated to tech or to high growth scalable business. But before this, the term "startup" was used to refer to many things. A chemical company goes through iterations of plant "startups", even while railing many hundreds of millions in capitol, that will only pay off after a decade of plant operation for example.

Personally I don't like to think I'm starting a "startup", but rather founding a business.
How is Venezuela a new media target? They've been in the US news media rather frequently since at least 2005 or so (when I first noticed an uptick in Venezuela specific coverage, from primarily US-mainstream sources at that time like CNN).
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You can do the aggregation locally on the device. You wouldn't want to send every page view as an immediate event, just send the aggregates every 15 minutes or at the start or end of each session.
The writer is Turkish, and apparently speaks Turkish, French, and English. The article was interesting enough for me that I didn't feel a need to pick grammar or spelling nits.
Agreed, but all taxpayers fund only a portion of the worldwide research and benefit from all of it, so the trade-off is still in favor of sharing.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that English isn't his first language based on his name. Focus on the content and not the presentation and you will find a nice story about discovery that we can all relate to.
You can very uniquely identify people based on browser positioning and sizing.

This tester uses it I believe: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
I don't see why it needs to be always online. Just locally record the number of pages that were in view for X amount of time.
Frankly, I'd find it more surprising if you had witnessed this sort of behavior. Put yourself in the place of a harasser. Are you going to say or do something creepy in front of the decent guys you work with? Or are you going to pick a time when you and your victim are alone?
I would like to use this but until you can comment and vote it is of limited value.
I'm not at all an expert on this subject, but if you pay income taxes on your 2015 income, that's less money you have to spend on expenses in 2016. If it stayed in the corporation you might not take as big of a hit.
I was thinking about this as well. But, I think that is a bit of a problem. I had a startup that failed, but I didn't close it for a couple years with the hope that I would jump back in. I ended up starting a totally different company instead, but that first one survived for 4 years while it was really only around for 2. Since taxes are really easy when you aren't making any money, I didn't really have any reason to officially shut it down.

You got to wonder how often the case is that someone delays a year because there wasn't any reason to make it official.
I have Echo since the beta. My kids use it all the time and they are not turning into assholes. The only negative side is showing them how immature AI is as they get frustrated and often laugh when their simple questions or commands don't get processed.
There's no economy on a dead planet
We were a little happy family living in
a modest appartment at Düzce in Turkey.

There may be more "errors", but I have to say that the English in this article is significantly better than my Turkish. It may be that the writer would appreciate some proof-reading assistance, or other comments on the details of spelling and grammar, but such offers should perhaps be made as such, and not as bald unsolicited criticisms.

Note: It wasn't I who down-voted you. In fact, assuming you really were simply intending to be helpful I've upvoted you to balance some of the downvotes.
That's funny, I was just researching this last week.

I stumbled across some music generators. A downloadable one http://duion.com/link/cgmusic-computer-generated-music

And http://www.abundant-music.com/

Both are "procedurally generated music" so I'm not sure where that falls in the AI spectrum.

I found that the quality was interesting and there was some potential there but at least in these cases, there were some issues with the quality of the midi instruments and song structure was very "same-y"

Anyways, Looking forward to poking around in the DeepJazz code.
Diodes are cool. One changed my life too! But I built a crystal radio set with mine. Many nights of listening to AM stations across the eastern part of the US. (WGN, WOR, KYW, KDKA, WABC, WSM and WBAL)

That took me to ham radio and electrical engineering. All because of a 4 cent part.
You don't know JS
I'd say if a company takes venture capital it's a start up, whereas something based on bank loans and self capitalisation is just a business. But I don't have any justification for that - just my association of the word.
You make a good point. 45% of the country are probably part time workers aged 18-23, who soon will become more valuable contributors to the economy than Warren Buffett.
No, it didn't. It failed to produce competent pastiche of any of the small or large scale structures in the original track. Some of the medium scale structures are almost passable, but not with any reliability or consistency.

So it does the usual expert system/AI thing of cycling between "Almost music" and "And... lost the plot" over and over.
People are down-voting it because it is exact what you said, a gut-level reaction. While it may be a perfectly reasonable reaction, I would think some elaboration on why they didn't like it would be far more informative and probably more inline with the posting style this site is trying to foster.
It would probably be counter to their revenue model if they had a separate domain for serious journalism.
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The algorithm should be good enough to learn from the current youtube videos :)
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