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I dislike a bit how they have ignored community requests to support alternative transport systems to Google Cloud Messaging [1]. This has even led to a fork [2].

It'd be also great to have a desktop client for Linux. Even a simple CLI would do.

If those 2 things were fixed, it'd be an awesome messaging platform.

[1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/1000

[2] https://fdroid.eutopia.cz/
> My takeaway is that it's more important to use a long password than to mix and match letters/digits/special characters

Yes. Trivially, if you use only two symbols (eg: "0" and "1"), a (random) password of 128 letters should be pretty safe. Note that your example of just 300 of one letter wouldn't be all that safe. In general, a good password won't really be easy to remember, because it needs to encode a lot of entropy.

More generally, you probably want log2(Nsymbols^length) >= 64, possibly => 96 (ie: equivalent to at least 64 or 96 bits of entropy). If you're using big and small letters, digits, and say ten printable symbols, every single letter (each random pick of one of the 226+10+10=72 symbols) adds roughly 6.17 bits of entropy. So you'll need at least eleven letters in your password. If you just use small letters, every character in your password adds about 4.7 bits - so to "climb over" 64 bits of entropy, you'd need at least 14 letters in your password.

Using just digits, each digit 0-9 adds about 3.32 bits, so for 64 bits you'd need a string of 20 random* digits.

To enumerate half of 2^64 passwords at 200 million tries/second, would take about 2^63/(200 000 000 * 3600 * 24 * 365) ~ 1 499 years. Clearly, if you had 3 000 machines, you could do this in about half a year - so depending on your risk profile, you might choose to aim for 96 bits: 2^95/(200 000 000 * 3600 * 24 * 365) ~ 6 439 554 927 618 years ... (That's eg: 29 random digits).
One of Fivethirtyeight's podcasts had Yanofsky on recently:

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-much-to-access-gover...
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Actually, if you have the data, estimating failure rates of reactors is fairly straightforward. Just use a Poisson distribution, the same as calculating MTBFs for other rare events.

It's the same way one calculates the probability of being struck by lightening, for example.
I'm familiar with the LLVM direct to wasm tool, but I was unable to get it working using the steps from the emscripten docs. The binaryen toolchain is pretty easy to digest, but I've been using the emsdk almost exclusively for the convenience. Once you have to rework part of it from source, I just don't know enough about it to debug it yet.

Thanks for the info on where to find outstanding proposals.
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The article makes it seem like we've all seen these waves, but then it says the Queen Elizabeth 2 might encounter one a year. Which is it? If it's the latter then it's likely that, unless you are habitually in the ocean, you'll be unlikely to see one in your lifetime.
Even using unsafe, are you sure I can implement e.g. efficient linked list data structure?

By “efficient” I mean I want to split my list in two for O(1) complexity, like other programming languages do.
This is a public wall post by the creator of Lavabit himself. Would you rather a random third party news site pick it up first before it is reposted here?

I see no problem with Facebook posts if they were created by an authoritative representative of the discussion and that was the primary point of publication (i.e. not a Facebook post pointing to their blog, in which case their blog would be a better place to link to.)
"Able to find a job" sounds very easy from our vantage point. For the majority of people, it most assuredly is not.

And that is the root of the problem.
It struck me as I was reading this, the entire reason this is even a possible thing is the advent of the "App Store"

If users obtained thier software elsewhere, the system could still "ban" it, but people would still obtain it.

With the app stores, it becomes fairly easy for a government to unilaterally ban a piece of software.
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Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11308160
I saw that interview and was shocked. For me, as a music major, the soundtrack of this movie was one of the most memorable and effective parts. I can't imagine anything else inspiring quite such a sense of dread and awe.
As per the name it's supposed to be a crash course, not in depth information. I found the world history videos amazing and it was a great general overview then the areas I found most fascinating I found more in depth documentaries on.
First let me say I really appreciate your comment.

The flip side is that using evidence is immediately dismissed as elitist. Studies performed by governments and universities are either corrupt or ivory-tower nonsense. How are you supposed to have a rational discussion if simply pointing to facts and data is alienating?

And to answer your question, what I find terrifying is that anger is what propels the vote for Trump and Farage et al. It's not even self-interest. These people are going to hurt themselves, and everyone else in their country, because they feel that they're being ignored? We're siamese twins and they've got a gun pointed at our shared foot. How is that not scary?

I genuinely believe that the biggest problem in the developed world is the economic problems of the working class. But the majority of them have spent almost all their political capital on fighting against things that have nothing to do with economics (e.g. gay rights), or fighting for things that have objectively and immediately worsened their situation (e.g. cutting government benefits and consumer/worker protection regulations) for the vague promise of a better economy in which things will improve again for them, even though after 40 years and many right-wing governments that has never materialized.

How are you supposed to address that kind of self-destruction without sounding condescending? How do you debate someone who thinks it's all a big conspiracy, and that the only ones they can trust are those that say the things that they already agree with?
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The Guardian has a graph showing how areas with a higher % of immigrants voted to Remain http://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2016/jun/...
No malloc result checks

The last time I worked with the DNS protocol, I seem to remember that everything had a well-defined (and small) limit on its size, and it wasn't really necessary to use dynamic allocation at all. Strings are length-prefixed, not null-terminated, and the longest length fields are only 16 bits.

A look at the RFC shows the strict limits on size:

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1035.txt

In comparison to text protocols like HTTP, I see far less opportunities to make errors like buffer overflows with DNS. It's a simple and relatively easy to parse binary protocol.
I understand that there was a specific intention in using the term lightweight, but the proper term would have been small. This is a small language, but it is most certainly not lightweight. There really isn't such thing as a "lightweight language for the JVM" and that isn't the fault of the language, but rather the JVM. Lua, for example, is a lightweight language.
This. The situation is completely different for an outsider than for somebody who's already made their move or for a local person.

My experience has been that German bosses in general do not comprehend how hard and expensive it is for somebody from far away to come to Germany and organize their life in there. A lot of people arranged for everything they need in life years ago and already forgotten about it. With the young generation, many live with their parents, they basically have their own free apartment in the parent's house, they have a car purchased for them and some money in their bank account to cover their immediate needs. A very convenient setup which makes them oblivious to how much those things actually cost in the real world. It happened many times when in a conversation with them I shared my experiences and practically the universal reaction I was receiving from them was along the lines of: "Really? Now, that's tough. Good luck to you then."

If you come to a new country you by definition have nothing and you have to procure everything from the most basic tools to whatever you're going to need as a professional. Consider what you have to purchase/pay for:

Rent an apartment, pay the security deposit, pay the agent commission, purchase a set of furniture for the entire apartment (most are offered empty and unlivable), purchase the household appliances. Unless you fancy living with roommates, eating junk food and sleeping on the floor.

If you're a software engineer, you're most likely going to be buying a workstation, a couple of monitors, a large desk, an ergonomic chair, a printer, a scanner and whatever else you need. Unless you plan not to do anything programming-related beyond office hours.

If you're going to a location where the public transportation system is not well developed or if they like to call strikes there all the time, you'll also need to purchase a car and get yourself a local driving license. Unless you enjoy losing hours in commute and regularly being late for work.

See how the numbers quickly add up. And somebody's got to pay for all this fun.

Notice how I'm talking about the basic stuff only that practically every person would need. I haven't even gone into family/childcare expenses.

I remember having a conversation with my boss about all of this. I was trying to get across the point that the amount I was receiving was making it impossible for me to set up a life at that location. To which I was told if I was unable to rent an apartment then I should consider renting a room instead and share the apartment with others. Now, that's positive. Definitely a thing to say to a talent who has multiple other options and the whole world open. And since the same level of payment was being hold firmly by all other German companies I negotiated with, I finally made the choice to move out.

That probably explains why there's so little true talent you can find in Germany. The treatment just isn't good.
> That's just not the world we live in.

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

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

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

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

What are these? They are just a few examples of private organizations that develop, maintain, and enforce unified standards for products, within the US and worldwide. There are many, many others.

> You are living in a fantasy world.

No, you are, with your belief that the only way to get unified standards--assuming that we are dealing with something that needs them--is for governments to set them. Governments can set standards, yes. But they are not the only way to set them. IMO they are usually the worst way to set them, because government officials have the least stake of all parties involved in making the standards the best ones possible.
Have you met the future Muad'dib ?

The parallels drawn here unmistakably read like something from Dune
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Although I guess you could just rely on promotion here if you can rely on the unsignedness of char

If compilers did not do promotion, they would be very obviously not compliant with the C standard and unable to compile correctly most existing code, so I'm willing to bet that is something you can rely on. It's defined by the standard and widely used.
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I love the US government, economics and world history courses. School would have been so much more interesting with these videos.

I really like the Patreon funding model for crash course. I watched them almost every day for a few months then started giving $15 a month because of how much value I'd gotten out of them. Plus the promised they'd make a physics course when they hit the next target and now they've delivered.
Finding a job is easy.

Finding a job that pays the bills and affords the worker a certain lifestyle is the difficult part.
Or the money-for-SCBO thing is a scam and you don't actually get a working SCBO. The YouTube video could easily be a fake by the scammer to trick people into thinking that they will work.
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In an era where every quack with an opinion is broadcasting it online, the media can basically concoct whatever narrative they want by choosing to elevate a few people's ramblings to the level of news.

An honest headline for a lot of the news in the past couple days is "People on losing side of election unhappy". But then people would realize how stupid it is. And when the news is about people's reaction to the news, you begin to wonder what the real cause and effect is.
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This is probably my US-centrism talking, but it seems like the title could be updated to reflect that this is India's Supreme Court, not the US Supreme Court.
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They could still obtain it, but the government could still mandate that local ISPs and telcos block connectivity to it.
This is like what they do when they ban websites.
The thing is, loans come with risk. That's why they pay interest. Loans to a sovereign entity come with the risk that they can simply choose not to repay their debt and call it a day. Countries have in fact done that, even in large batches. A country has a constitution that supercedes debt payments. So if a sovereign defaults, nothing happens.

The real issue that German banks were overleveraged before 2008, so normally the crisis would have destroyed them. Germany did not want inflation, so in order to fix their banks they removed the limits on leverage, and Deutsche Bank (not the German national bank, just a very big German bank). Greece defaulting would bring the banks to the very edge of bankruptcy, perhaps to the point where one big customer default would kill them. Then they forced QE (do you know that every European loans ~100 euro to banks and large companies every month ? That's what it currently seems to take to prevent German (and other) banks from falling over, and Draghi has already announced "a massive increase" to compensate for Brexit). Of course it was all for naught: the stock market performance of the last year or so has done that anyway.

So now they're in "double or nothing" mode. They're doubling down. Tripling down. Just to avoid default. Germany has done malinvestment on a huge scale, and now they're using their political and financial power to fix it. But they're long past the point where they won't get repaid. They're at the point where they're trying to avoid an immediate total crisis, and it certainly looks like they're losing the battle. I doubt this Brexit event helped.

Like many other countries, Germany has a vastly underfunded bank default insurance scheme. It might surprise you to learn that no country has ever paid out their default insurance for a big bank. So I'm being harder on Germany here than I should be : the US has taken crazy measures to prevent bank defaults as well.

As you say, Greece's debt until this German exploitation began was not that spectacular (comparable to Italy and Spain, and not that much worse than German debt even). So criticizing their spending habits delivers arguments that you can hold against almost every western country. Obama, for instance, has not been very concerned with getting into more debt. And a US territory (not sure what the difference is with a state) has gone bankrupt (Puerto Rico). This definitely cost the US treasury. At least the US still has enough financial sense and backing to allow for a default (because there'll be US states going bankrupt in the years to come)
>> I relocated from another continent. My company gives decent relocation/signing bonuses, so I assume our competitors do too.

Not really. From my experience, only very large companies can sometimes offer you about 1-2K as a compensation for your relocation expenses and that's it. Consider yourself very lucky.

>> the market rate is what it is, no company in its right mind is going to hire someone asking for +50% with no good reason.

High living expenses is a good reason already. Also, what is not immediately obvious, an employee whose mind is constantly occupied with things like looking for a cheaper apartment or finding a more paying employment is not going to be performing well. He/she has other needs and building your product well just isn't high priority for them.
Unless, of course, one can recover from malloc failing.
Yeah, me too. I just like it when the writers are at least a little insightful. I never get that sense from Scott Adams.

It reminds me a little of being back in high school when I read his stuff, a few decades ago, when my pals and I were starting to, tentatively and sloppily, feel out bigger philosophical ideas about the world.
48% being the population of contributors actually seems like a fairly low number, given that your average project probably has 1, maybe 2 maintainers. If you had even 3 casual contributors to a 1-man operation, that would be 75%.
My opinion is that the Brahmin class is much more vulnerable than it thinks and it unconsciously knows this. They're like a small dog with a big voice taking shit to the other dogs.

Most Europeans don't believe Muslims belong in Europe at all. Only the young and the media believe that. This simple fact elides quite a few people. This is not a new era. This is another era. This recent period of globalization? It didn't even match the first golden one.

We don't care about this talk of diversity from America. Europe has plenty of diversity. Notice how each group is clearly delineated into specific geographical areas. That's what diversity looks like after a while. The same will be ultimately true of America, it just takes time.
Californians and Texans see each other as separate species already! Tell me I'm wrong!
That's fair. I somehow didn't make that connection; long day i suppose.
I wonder if we can expect this to change if Apple add a TouchID reader (and accompanying Secure Enclave) to the next generation of MacBooks
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It's a bit ironic how a news about such a topic as this is posted on facebook...
10x R&D sounds great, but as you throw more money towards a subject, you dont get more good research, you get more crap you have to wade thru. I remember when there was virtually unlimited money towards aid research, they quickly ran out of anything resembling a remotely qualify researcher very quickly.
I completely agree.

I've been part of an organization that sent numerous FOIA requests out via our legal team, mostly to smaller county or city level agencies.

In some cases City A would respond (San Fransisco was in this bucket) and say: "Sure, we'll have it by X! What email address should we send the data to?"

In other cases (a few agencies in Hawaii come to mind), for the exact same dataset / FOIA request -- in fact, with an order of magnitude fewer responsive data records -- the agency would require payment in the amount of $100,000+. True story, first-hand experience...
Continuously running the 3G/4G connection and sharing it over wifi would run down the batter pretty quickly. Watches need small batteries so they can fit on your wrist.
> And this was the intention of the founders. And it's irrelevant.

It was relevant to the next point made (not the founders intentions), that everything evolves even the U.S.

> disagree with you here, there is no guarantee of this. It may, it may not.

It will, because nothing stays static, every generation has their own views about issues and all societies continually evolve, so yes, there is a guarantee of this.

> Selection is very different from election, even if done by those who were elected.

They're effectively the same thing and it's what elected representatives are for. You can't claim you don't have a say in the people selected when you elect the selectors.
Web Assembly is exciting to me precisely because I'm not a web developer, and the whole idea of being a web developer as distinct from any other kind of developer is a bit absurd, especially considering the ubiquity of the web and the fact that it basically means you're a JavaScript programmer of some variant. Your language choice shouldn't determine your infrastructure.
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You could in theory have a rogue wave only an inch tall, provided the highest expected wave was only fractions of an inch tall. This has nothing to do with the absolute size of the wave, but it's size relative to the other waves. Now this article dramatizes a wave that is dozens of feet tall, that's what's rarer.
Sure, but in this case it was signed to unsigned promotion.
If that's the case then they're only hiring you for grunt labor and you should quit anyway.
Yea, I have no idea what you're trying to convey. Additionally, a system built entirely with singletons isn't object oriented, it's procedural with modules.
The reason these rely on surveys instead of urine tests is because courts have deemed mandatory testing to be an unreasonable search, while random testing based on reasonable suspicion hasn't been shut down by courts (yet). Florida tried to have mandatory testing for all welfare recipients but the courts threw it out.

Nevertheless, these results are really astonishing and I think you're looking at them all wrong. Some bureaucrat in Utah thought that 460 welfare recipients were suspicious and ordered them tested, but only 18 of them tested positive. The bureaucrat was wrong 96% of the time, and the 4% usage rate is both under the drug use rate for the general population of that state (6% self-reported) and over-represented (because these were the 10% specifically selected people that the agency thought were using drugs).

Anyway, your profit and loss analysis seems fishy to me. It is highly unlikely that by denying 14 applicants their welfare checks the state of Utah saved anything near 100% of the face value of said check. In fact I would say it is quite likely that the state paid some fraction (with no upper bound) of that on subsequent support for and/or enforcement upon the unsupported people and their families, not to mention the general economic loss of not putting that money in motion.
Generally agree, (and that's what we usually do in GLib). However, for a general purpose DNS user-space implementation I think it would be good to have something that can be used in both scenarios.
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Why should that matter in this case? The worst case would have been the output of a wrong value and it was some commented out debug output which I have used in a very specific case.
They're all 1, in appropriate units. ;-)
I'm tempted to agree, but if we consider the domain part of the title (which we do), it already says India. And it's good for HN readers to have to work a little.