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Pirate Bay Founder Will Sue the Recording Industry for a Change
Do mathematicians actually have an answer for this? Or is it considered an open question.
Yes I know about Jonathan, which is why I mentioned him because I didn't want to publish the details of the group here and he's been something like an adviser to the group.

And that group is probably also the reasons for my views. I would never qualify to be in HARC and yet I don't just want to be content to scorn the state of the industry and state of the art. I see that there's additionally interesting research coming from garages and weekend projects. I feel that "problem finding" is somewhat interchangeable with "point of view" and that can come from surprising sources. Funding might be needed for the hardware but my own experience, for what it's worth, hasn't borne that out. The main component then is time, and while weekends aren't much, they'll have to suffice. The last step is to see if we can't get further as a community, giving that feedback so critical at PARC, and so that is why the group was created.
As far as I understood the U2F standard, the dongles need a FIDO-issued manufacturer key. Do sites accepting U2F just not check that the corresponding signature is present?
> If you buy your honey from a small-scale vendor, however, certain particulates might remain, from pollen to enzymes.

Yes. Which is also a problem for people with allergies. My wife has serious bee (and pollen!) allergies, so having some honey touch her skin is a good test for how "industrialized" the honey actually is.
Hopefully their robots are a little more helpful and a little less interested in teeth http://i.cdn.turner.com/asfix/repository//8a25c3920ef1568301...
>A lot of systems (pensions, social security, 401k, the stock market, most city governments and state budgets, et al).

Not a lot of illegal immigrants pay much in taxes.
The judge's ancestry is Mexican. And, more important, the judge is active in some pro-Mexican political causes that conflict with some of Trump's campaign positions.

So, again, just for you, Trump claims that some of the judge's rulings were unfair. Then Trump looked for the judge's motivation for the unfair rulings and noticed the ancestry and political causes and concluded that those were were the motivation for the judge being unfair.

My point is, what Trump was doing was not racist. Maybe Trump was blowing smoke in a legal case, looking for attention, pushing back against a legal case being brought during a campaign and for maybe political reasons, etc., but I don't think Trump was being racist.

Too much of the media wanted to attack Trump and claim that what Trump said was that no judge with Mexican ancestry could be fair to him, but that is nothing like what Trump said. It's more than split hairs.
This comment is not as absurd as everyone seems to think. It is possible that life started out as RNA[1] on Earth or elsewhere in the galaxy[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
The speaker talked about an exploitable vulnerability in the bootrom, correct? Thus all ESP8266s are permanently vulnerable and only a new die rev could fix it. The CPU architecture is also interesting.
A better way to use GitHub milestones
Price elasticity is an observed correlation. "Just Prices" seems like an interesting way to help explain why it happens, but I doubt business owners need to grok Just Prices in order to anticipate price elasticity.
Correct, it's mandatory service.

I think what the grandparent meant to say with being "deputized to be the financial police" is that the extent of this mandatory service has become so substantial that financial institutions often are left with the feeling that they are performing work (at their own expense) which feels like work that law enforcement should be doing.

It used to be that law enforcement pointed out the bad guys, or even just suspects, to you. Now, you're supposed to identify and report possible bad guys to law enforcement.

There's nothing wrong with that on principle, of course, but in practice, every bank must now train some personnel to detect not only suspicious individuals or transactions, but even suspicious patterns of transactions.

And that's when you start feeling like you've been deputized -- it feels like you are performing a criminil investigation on behalf of others.
Addendum: See page 14 of the specs overview: https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-u2f-overview-v1.0-rd-201...
The image of Assange trapped in an out-of-gas diplomatic car, being towed behind a beat up truck driven by a very amused blue-collar driver on the way to the airport sounds rather like something from a Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett novel.
Like many things, there's a trade-off between up-front learning cost to gain expressiveness and usefulness later, and lower up-front cost at the expense of explicit verbosity later.
You're right that there's only so many possible nonzero remainders mod 3, and you can check for yourself that if you multiply any of them together, you end up with another non-multiple of 3.

The same is true for 5: it takes a little more time to check, since there are a few more possible remainders mod 5, but it happens to be true, and so you can indeed verify, that when you multiply non-multiples of 5 together, the result is also a non-multiple of 5.

And you can go ahead and check by brute force that this is true of 7, and 11, and 13 as well. Mod any of those, when you multiply nonzero values, you get a nonzero result. Any modulus this happens to be true of, you can sit down and verify that it's true of, by just checking all the finitely many cases.

But knowing it's true of the first few primes doesn't guarantee the same fact will be true of every other prime you check.

How do we know that this is in fact the case for every prime?

It's not true of every number, after all: 4 isn't divisible by 10, and 5 isn't divisible by 10, and yet 4 * 5 is divisible by 10. 10 doesn't have the property that it only divides a product if it divides one of the factors.

So why do primes have this property? Obviously, if 0 < A, B < p, you can't get A * B = p right on the dot (by the relevant definition of "prime"), but why can't it be the case that A * B = some multiple of p?

This is a non-obvious fact. This is where the Euclidean algorithm reasoning invoked above comes in. It doesn't just follow immediately.
With Kodi, I use external players like VLC and PotPlayer

With Plex, I've only ever been able to use the chrome extension mentioned in the article successfully.
Stackdriver Debugger now works with source code directly in GitHub and Bitbucket
You should probably look up what food stamps are in the US. They have nothing to do with a food shortage.
"I suspect that programming ability will also show a steep decline, but I wonder how big."

I'm only 36 [1]. I wonder about the above. I could crank out more code when I was younger but I couldn't crank out as many solutions as I do now.

[1] in hexadecimal ;-)
What happened to "declare JIRA bankruptcy"? Still on the table?

https://twitter.com/adriaanm/status/571073842434547712
Android Basics Nanodegree by Google
It seems a bit tricky to do so without proving the fundamental theorem along the way, given another commenter's observation that the same principle doesn't hold for divisibility by composite numbers (you can get 726=22×33, where 726 is divisible by 6 yet neither 22 nor 33 is).
Like driving a pin with a sledgehammer
Never heard that one before; I don't know much about how problem spots usually develop, so I would be wary about the "stability" of any known faults when using a module like that.
If you want to do smart cropping locally, you might want to take a look at this: https://github.com/jwagner/smartcrop.js/

It's not as sophisticated as what we implemented for Cloudinary, but it's a good start.
I have that, based on zwave devices. Can be bought off the shelf, requires some tinkering to set up usually when you want to do something that's not trivial, but is as flexible as you want it to be. Can run on raspi, there are diy sets for it etc. Ppl bitch about zwave being 'proprietary' but it's open/documented enough to be hackable to your heart's content.
Keith at the Living Computer Museum has been very helpful with our Alto restoration, providing information from their restoration experience, as well as diagnostic hardware.
Thanks for this. I had somehow never heard of this chip before. Link for the lazy: http://esp8266.net/
Well, yeah, what I said was a simplification and an assumption. Throughput doesn't directly equate to economy, but it's one of many tools that could be used of the goal is growing the economy and needs to be balanced against other factors.

Maybe I should have elaborated more in my reply. My point was that I've heard that argument /a lot/ but I never hear alternatives or what I feel like is an honest discussion (maybe I'm just out of the loop). The scenario usually starts with, "a road is busy and citizens what something done about it." The obvious choice is to expand the road. This obvious response is, "that won't fix traffic." What I'm saying is there are other reasons to expand and I also haven't heard alternatives to expanding the road that are any more proven to work--which I'm genuinely curious about.
I'm on one of the larger Scala teams in the U.S and have used it for quite a few years. In short, Scala is a much more powerful and expressive language (than Kotlin) that let's you write very functional code.

Most on our team would consider programming in Kotlin a huge regression, as it's not really geared for functional programming.

Here's a previous post where I talk about the pros and cons:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11837782
If anybody wants to do something about this with me and others, start sending Foia requests for similar information to your local and state governments. You'll find that there is a huge amount of aversion towards releasing things like call logs and email. Push on and on and you'll eventually get what you're looking for. Highlighting the absurdities of these laws through civil reciprocation may just go a long way.

If all goes as best as it can go, I should have Chicago's mayor's office's dns resolution logs tomorrow. Just so I can limit an email search since they consider it too difficult to search for three companies in their email records for a single week. It's taken a year and a half to get this far, but it takes minutes for them to do the same. This is absurd.

This isn't a place for journalists anymore. None I've talked to are ever willing to do anything similar because of the time it takes to get a request fulfilled. Don't be like them, and just persist, dammit.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hgG79eIr8MbkjYrCvcTR...
That's strange to me too. People on the terrorist watch list can't fly but they can buy guns. That doesn't really make sense.
Neustar splitting into 2 companies
What actual advantage does this provide over Jim?
Ah, good observation! But what you're describing isn't relativistic time dilation. It is called "the (non-Relativistic) Doppler effect", and can be commonly experienced when a race car, an ambulance, or a train passes you: When it's approaching, the noise will have a higher pitch than when it's passed. This is because the frequency of things that move towards us appear higher than they are, and that of things that move away from us appear lower. It's also why stars that move away from us appear more red than they are (they are said to be "red-shifted").

Imagine the same scenario you described (there's actually no need to use faster-than-c speeds for it), but your friend has planted clocks all along the path that you're traveling. Once he's back at his starting position, he synchronizes them all (there are techniques to achieve this - Einstein famously proposed one). Now when you pass him and keep moving away from him, every second you take a picture of your own clock next to the clock planted on the path. In a non-relativistic world, the pictures will show that your clock is always synchronized with all of your friend's clocks. Making the observation this way rids us of the Doppler effect.

But a non-relativistic world isn't the real world! In reality, if you go fast enough (close enough to c), the pictures will show e.g. your clock marking 12:00:01 when the clock in the path marks 12:00:02. And your clock marking 12:00:02 when you encountered the next clock in the path marking 12:00:04. In other words, your friend (and everything that's stationary with respect to him) will measure your time passing more slowly. Using these example numbers, in what for them is the pass of 2 seconds, you (and everything moving at your same speed - like your clock) have only aged 1 second. This is relativistic time dilation. It's shocking, but it's a fact that's been established for 110 years (and its mathematical consequences help explain even the microelectronics you and me are using). Now this happens no matter what speed you move with respect to your friend. But for everyday speeds it's so small as to be imperceptible - it only becomes noticeable at speeds like that of GPS satellites.

An immediate question is:

> Wait, if I move away from my friend, from my point of view my friend is moving away from me. So I should measure his clocks advancing more slowly than mine.

And that is correct, and is exactly what would happen!

> But the pictures I took show the opposite?

No! They show your clock compared to different clocks. And these clocks on the path, that your friend synchronized, by your measurements they all started at different times. I.e. for you, none of these clocks are synchronized. For your friend, they all marked 12:00:00 simultaneously. For you, they all marked 12:00:00 at different moments. In non-relativistic physics, simultaneity was an absolute concept: If two things happened at the same time, they happened at the same time for everybody. In reality, if I'm moving with respect to you, what happens at the same time in different locations for me, doesn't happen at the same time for you.
I'm a much better programmer at 40 than I was at 35, and I was much better at 35 than I was when I graduated with a CS degree. Steadily improving people skills are as much a part of that as steadily improving programming skills.
I do this with audiobooks and it changed everything. I listen to them on triple speed. For some things, I have to ramp up to it, and for others I can only go 2.5x.

One trend I noticed was that I kept it at 1x on content I wanted to enjoy and savor. But books on start-ups, books about the workplace and management definitely went on 3x speed.
Just at the entire world is going HTTPS, my faith in the system is seriously waning. When Symantec bought Blue Coat, it made me start to think about how fragile this is. How long before Symantec gets an NSL demanding an appliance that can mint bogus certs on the fly for dropbox.com, facebook.com, twitter.com, etc...?

How effective is something like certificate pinning against fraudulent certs?
If the language requires a single specific person to be involved so it can move forward, that they are choosing to spend their time on something you deem not the best way to advance the language, then that's actually the lesser of a few problems. Is the bus number of this project really one? If not, then it doesn't really matter what he chooses to spend his time on.
Reminds me of this case where airlines routinely skipped a step during maintenance because it took too much time. Skipping that step in the manufacturer's process ended up costing 273 people their lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191#E...
So it's like a unikernel of life?
Someone stated that "the majority of people live below international poverty lines"

I replied stating that his comment contains factually false statements.

You replied calling me out, saying that there were no false statements.

You later provided proof that only 22% of the population lives below the international poverty line.

22% is no where even close to 50%. I don't know why you keep trying to defend this as a true statement. It isn't, as you yourself supplied proof for.

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Regarding your point that I'm getting lost in semantics: I should be the one saying that to you. The entire debate about the international poverty line was not even my main point. My main point as stated originally was that the post was an unnecessarily condescending rant.

And it is. If we were discussing the overall state of India, then the above comment might be a fair one. But that's not even close to what this thread is about. This thread is about India's space agency launching 20 satellites in a single mission. Someone then went off on a (unnecessary) tangent about the original definition of "3rd world", as relating to the cold war. Someone else then went off on another completely unrelated rant about every single problem he could think of, that exists in the country.

Bringing up valid criticisms during the appropriate context/discussion, is certainly very valuable. But criticizing someone/something during completely unrelated discussions isn't. It's usually just a sign of someone who enjoys condescending to others and enjoys the feeling of power that comes with it.
"Every image is unique in its content, and every visitor to your website has a different device, resolution, browser and network speed. It is challenging to deliver an optimal image to every user, especially when you need to scale that up to hundreds, thousands or millions of images."

This article discusses the challenges that web and mobile developers face and introduces a cloud based solution for automatic content-aware and context-aware image adaptation: automatic cropping, intelligent content-aware encoding, dynamic format selection and automatic responsive images using Client Hints.
Currently, pilots have the primary function of monitoring the automation, and exercising critical thinking when things go wrong. This can be everything from flight computers misbehaving, dealing with weather, avoiding turbulence, troubleshooting an engine fault indicator. Their secondary function of flying the plane is more or less because they have to be there anyway, and for almost all larger aircraft the autopilot takes care of everything except for maybe the first few minutes and the last ~1 to 10 minutes of the flight (although this varies based on airline, aircraft type, and individual pilot preference).
Autoland does exist (google cat. 3 ILS), but it hasn't really been refined to perfection because the pilots aren't going anywhere as of yet and they are quite excellent at performing the last 200 ft of the landing sequence (once the runway is in sight in low vis conditions).
Your average airline flight, in daylight and good weather, can really be quite a simple exercise. The outliers, with equipment out of service, bad weather, icing, or really serious things like an engine failure, are extremely cognitively demanding in a very "human" way and certainly outside the capabilities of perhaps anything short of an artificial general intelligence. I think the future of computing in the cockpit for the foreseeable future involves collaborating with humans to help them navigate these challenging situations and focus on higher level problem solving, rather than replacing them.
What?
I realize that cars carry connotations for people but I am certainly not aware of them. How are other people?

I remember trying to buy a second car (my first car was a Subaru, and I loved it!).

Mazda Miata looks nice. (No! That's midlife crisis).
Toyota Carolla? (No! It says you're a family man)

And so on.
Finally, I just went on the basis of which car was in the shop the least amount of time and had high safety ratings.

How do people pick up on connotations like these ones? I watch all the same movies, and shows.
I've been doing this for years thanks to VLC's ability to speed things up. YouTube has had this feature for a while as well, as has Coursera.

If a typical show on TV is 1 hour long, 15-20 of it is commercials. I can download that episode, watch it at 1.5x (or 2-3x if it's subtitled, for example a foreign language film), and now what would have taken an hour out of my day has only taken 30 minutes.
WebP Generator for Jekyll Static Sites
In case you haven't noticed, this country has no concept of the ideas that this country was founded on. It's been replaced by PC SJW Globalist NEW WORLD ORDER we do whatever we want rule of law. Warrants are for peasants...not governments.
That sounds pretty cool. Can you give me an example of the things a site like nutrahacker can tell me?
Bah! "The intelligence is there, in a billion people there are a few million outliers"

That statement is suggestive of an Indian race that's generally not intelligent. Just curious on your country of origin and race, and source of this bias!
Nothing to worry about, they're wearing orange vests and carrying clipboards.
They should have called it Pandors's Box
I'm still bitter about this chain of trust model. The fact that I have to get some other party to tell my users that they can trust me just seems wrong. They trust me because of personal history, not because some banner says they should.

Browsers and OS vendors shipping CAs seems to be the root of the problem, in my mind. Those should be distributed by the service providers, who are the actual trustworthy entities in the user's minds.
Physicists Find Beauty in Symmetry and Asymmetry
On [1], that "Connect With 23andMe" button is terrifying. A "Login With Facebook" but accesses your DNA file. Especially given the hacky appearance of the site (still using Bluehost default favicon, etc.).
Why? How do we know factorizations are unique? That is the claim under contention. That is precisely what Gowers in the original article is noting as non-obvious [but often mistakenly taken to be obvious].

If we don't already know (prime) factorizations are unique, how do we know that, if an integer is divisible by a prime, that prime must appear in every possible factorization of that integer?

"Prime factorizations are unique" is equivalent, in a straightforward way, to "If p is a prime factor of x, then p appears in every prime factorization of x". It's easy to deduce either of these from the other. But neither of these statements is obviously true.

They turn out to be true for the integers, but seeing why they are true requires an extra, not at all obvious insight (the reasoning invoked above via the Euclidean algorithm).
Well, I for one do not care enough about battery life to pay the huge bonus the Maxx was selling for when I last brought a Motorolla phone (what I have no plans of doing again).

I'd pay for more battery life, but the bonus was just not worth it. It was easily twice as expensive as the phone I brought, with similar specs. Batteries last for a couple of days already, some more days are just not that big a differential.
I did mention that part for a reason. And of course if one accepts the axiom of choice then every set can be well-ordered, but that would not force every ring to be a UFD.
I'd love to turn off write-access to JIRA and move to GitHub for new tickets. We'll get there, but first need to finish this release everyone's waiting for :-)
Feel free to start a ballot measure to not only have the Ellis Act repealed, but all current enforcement cases voided (as you are apparently advocating), then. In fact, if you did so, I'm sure that not just AirBnB, but Graham, Thiel, Andreessen, Khosla and hordes of VCs will be more than happy to bankroll it for you. In fact, they'll be bending over backwards to do so -- in order to, you know, secure their "legacy."

And I can just see the bus shelter ads they'll be putting up already -- and the side-splitting hilarity that will be sure to ensue, up and down the state. Remembering how swimmingly well AirBnB's efforts to "educate" local voters went down in a certain recent election.
Smooch bridges the gap between web chat and messaging apps
The screenshots in the README.md on GitHub - at least for me - stopped displaying. Just FYI.