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> You are free to keep your opinion but the statement that such possibility "still beats the purpose of the HSM though" is not shared by many people.

I'm aware of the FIPS standard, therefore I worded the piece as my opinion. I think it's better to be able to rotate the keys then to restore to the same/other device. Since extraction might lead to decryption. I do also know that software-wise that is an inconvinience and in some cases not possible. Bur still, a device that protects private keys should not give them up. As you say, my opinion.

> No, it is not a convenience. It is a manner to mitigate the risk of denial of service one may cause by purposedly destroying or stealing your HSM.

Stealing should be protected by the tamper-protection, thus causing a wipe of the device. In that case you might have a bigger problem, someone has access to your datacenter and racks. In that case a backup is very welcome. (I do find it a hard problem where the two sides, no backup, a backup, both are equally important.

> I challenge this statement: I deal with most big-name HSMs (and there are not that many) and none of them can do this. I do know because that is a risk we explicitly check for when evaluating one.

We've had a situation were two different revisions of the same device were not able to load a wrapped key. Support flew in and told us they could fix in in a new firmware in three months, no guarantees. We installed screen recorders and a keylogger, since they were on our production env (audit logging). They did, with undocumented commands, export the key from the device in an unencrypted format and loaded it into the other model so that we could continue our operation. Reviewing the recording and the logs showed that the commands did also work on other HSM's we had. I'm still under NDA so I cannot talk about which brand or model specific.
If these pension funds are throwing large amounts of money into a dangerous market, that would solely be the fault of Dutch pension fund managers. There are plenty of other non-Dutch instruments they can, and should be investing in.
I have played Ingress and it's definitely fun. I could never bring myself to care about the story though. I'd even meet people who have played it daily for years, but had no interest in shapers, Jarvis and all that. Sure, a game with fun mechanics doesn’t really need an engaging story, but I think a solid Pokemon theme is more than just branding.
Food in the US is sh*t. There are great things in the US and UK( from where it comes from), but food is so wrong there.

I lived some years in Japan, I enjoyed the food. China, not so much, but is is so big you can find anything, they have gastronomical culture that is different and you have to get used to new flavors.

The US totally lacks gastronomical culture. Everything is about money, and quantity.

As an Spanish that lives in Germany I am so worried about TTIP and Americans telling us(Europeans) what to eat. Their way of eating is making a big part of the population obese with arteries clogged.
There is reason to expect this if you want some expectation of eating what you're being sold. It's an extension of reasonable labelling.

It's interesting you pick out cheddar. Consider Cheddar cheese - much of it was so direly awful as barely meeting requirement to be called edible let alone cheddar. Labelling your cheese "cheddar" should give me some expectation of production process (it can't be cheddar if it's not been cheddared or aged) taste and texture just as labelling Fire Engine Red paint gives me expectation of colour inside the tin. Would it be stupid protectionism to be disatisfied that I received pale pink paint in the tin?

Fortunately there's an EU PDO protection for Cheddar - "West Country Farmhouse Cheddar", so this is what I now usually buy. It requires a minimum aging of nine months and that the milk come from the same farm producing the cheese. It's a dramatically better product.
the Fog of War was great. What struck me the most was that the interviewer seemed to be shouting across the room. McNamara didn't seem all that bothered either. Also, none of those sycophantic reaction shots of the interviewer benignly nodding, or incredulously furrowing their brow. I wish more journalists would use this system (I didn't know it had a name, thanks for the link).
Well if you don't follow foreign food purity issues (closely) then, please, try to comment a little bit more humble. Maybe asking instead of definitive statements?
> The bigger problem in Italy seems to me to be that you have on of the least progressive income systems I've seen, so low earners gets hit particularly hard.

There are other mechanisms to make things more progressive. These include special regimes for low income self-employed people and extra returns keyed on stuff such as children (which progressively reduce and finally disappear as your income grows). You end up not paying taxes at all unless you earn at least ~8,000 euros. On a 30k euro income (about average for a secretary with 10 years experience) the overall final rate is around 23-24%.
Generally speaking, as I'm not a patent lawyer either, the same technique applied to two different problem domains can generate two valid patents. The historical example is ship and automobile windscreen wiper.
That someone can call it the same - Cheese just like France but produced somewhere.

It is about representing the right information.
There's a script for irssi that provides compatibility with Glowing Bear: https://github.com/ailin-nemui/teddy/wiki
> I'd bet money that the increased caloric intake of our ancestors is entirely explained by their increased physical activity.

I'd bet that there were other factors involved, like parasites (worms) and lower quality food (inedible/rotten food tends to leave our intestines quickly).
The UK had by far the worst problem, but there were at least 20-30 other countries that had BSE outbreaks.
Serious question - with so much bad press about the way their company is doing things (mostly unethical), why haven't their work force collapsed? I would imagine most of their engineers, scientist etc would be leaving the company every day.
1. What works for (relatively) small Cypriot banks will probably not work for larger system banks. The bail in rules worked well in part because the Cypriot banks held a lot of foreign, Russian deposits. If Deutsche goes bust.. winter is coming.

2. Bankruptcy will lead to local deposit funds having to reimburse €100,000 per person, per bank. Which will ultimately be paid for by the taxpayer. It might actually be cheaper for the taxpayer to just save the bank.

At least in Belgium, the government actually got quite a good return on the emergency funds they lent to the banks during the financial crisis. So we're looking at a possible return vs a certain loss.

I'm not saying all banks need to be bailed out, but it's only prudent to keep the option on the table if required. The world would be a different place if post Lehman governments would have let banks collapse.
Ask HN: Chop sticks and plates with sensors?
I have a problem I'd like to solve, and wonder if anyone has the type of knowledge that could lend advice:

My father-in-law is blind, and one of his daily problems is simply knowing where his food is on his plate. We typically describe the central plate like a clock: X at 12o'clock, Y at 6, etc; same thing with the small dishes around it

Bowls help him trap the food but not locate it or know when there isn't anymore, as chopsticks are hard to use to detect if they are touching anything or not.

I wonder what might be done with some simple sensors, one on the chopsticks, maybe an ear piece to "whisper" to him. He's very sensitive about being blind and doesn't like people making a big deal out loud.

I think that is clear enough, but feel free to ask follow up questions. I don't want to stifle the brainstorming by suggesting one route or another for solving this, just wondering what ideas might be viable.

TIA!
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> Banks make loans, that's kind of what they do,

How naive. Banks have to take collateral and give loans only to people/companies that have good track record. What they did is to give loans to people who could not pay back, which is a fatal mistake for a bank.
I didn't forget them, I didn't know about them and I was sure that someone would fix it for me. :)
There was one point where the EU commission president stuck his fingers in his ears and walked away when being asked about Brexit by journalists.

That would be career suicide for a politician, but not for EU bureaucrats.

That's the sort of contempt they hold for the populace of the EU, they couldn't care at all.
OK, another database. Why should I care? The title doesn't convey it, and as a consequence, I have no motivation to click the link and read further.
It's already been noted that the application itself doesn't verify the validity of TLS certs, so it's trivial to MITM the connection and there are currently people working to learn the ins and outs of the API.
'Front running' has specific legal definition (which has existed for a long time) which definitely doesn't apply to these cases. The contortion is in fact on your side.

But it is a lost battle anyway.
Interesting that you use Mexican "Milwaukee Cheddar" as an example, considering Cheddar itself originates in a place called Cheddar in the UK. Milwaukee Cheddar itself is an example of what you're attacking.
So, when can we expect Amazon Elastic Atomic Clock (AWS EAC)? ;-)
That's a interesting example – I totally agree with you in the general case, but I'd actually always thought of 'Greek yoghurt' the same way I thought of 'French fries'!
"largest startup hub outside the US": http://www.businessinsider.com/the-20-hottest-startup-hubs-i...

"highest concentration of startups per capita": http://www.forbes.com/sites/ilyapozin/2014/09/26/the-ten-sta...

There are also more investment dollars per capita: http://www.geektime.com/2016/01/11/annual-report-2015-startu...

For the number of NASDAQ-listed companies I queried the NASDAQ site:
http://www.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-region.aspx?reg...
http://www.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-region.aspx?reg...
Instagram and Snapchat are not just every other app. I think Twitter is used as a reference in these kind of statements because their number of active users is pretty stagnant.
So what you are saying, is that the problems in Greece are down to the UK? I think you may want to rethink how you perceive your world.

The UK has nothing to do with reforms concerning the EURO. That's up to France and Germany and the EU Central Bank.

The biggest problem is this. The UK is now leaving and taking a pretty big economy with it. Those payments the UK makes is going too.

The Germany Economy can't keep bailing out the poorer nations in the EU alone.

The market is now eyeing up all the banks in the EU countries and are sharpening their knives to do shortages.

I'm just waiting for 1 bank to need a bailout and then you'll see a long list.

Who is going to foot this bill, France, Germany, Finland? What conditions are they going to impose.

Is Italy or another country (Spain?) going to see Greece style sanctions?

Once this happens, I think you'll start to see other exit musings in other countries and it'll be the beginning of the end!
Direct voting, like the UK referendum, can lead to impossible situations. People vote for what they wished was the reality, and many times it's just not possible.
It is because of the revolving door problem:

The movement of personnel between roles as legislators and regulators and the industries affected by the legislation and regulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics)
I live between NYC and Bangalore, India. The taste and freshness of vegetables and fruits in India is way more than what is available from Fairway in NYC. Some of it could be attributed to the broken cold storage (and hence most perishables come from around Bangalore).

I normally buy Spinach (and other Indian greens) from the lady outside a small community park. "No Agathi (type of green) today? What happened?" She grins widely "Went to the movies yesterday. Did not pluck them." To me this is fresh :)

I use the prices of vegetables swing wildly as a proxy for freshness. Tomatoes swung between 10Rs to 80Rs a Kg in a matter of days and is now around 15Rs a Kg. It is hard on the farmer, no doubt, but it also shows how local demand and supply is.
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I wonder what it would take to convince them that you are in Canada.
1. If you have hard time reading, you'll have very hard time writing
software.

2. To build websites you don't use computer science at all, so if it's all
you want, you can skip most of the computer science courses. Just leave some
algorithms and data structures course in your curriculum.
> The last major immigration to Israel were eastern european jews leaving the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, and that was only because Israel put enormous political pressure on the US to not allow them to come to the states instead.

I can't find a source for your claim the Israel put political pressure on the US to not allow Soviet Jews to immigrate. Your dates are also off by 1-2 decades, according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_Post-Soviet_aliyah

Do you have a source for your claim?
Only if you don't know how the thing actually works.
Also, homebrew maintainers if you're reading this, since you blocked people from commenting on the issue here's something you might be interested in: https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
Tell HN: kids needs math practice. I wish quality iOS/Android games included it
I think maths is something anyone can become better at with repetitive practice.

Kids in particular need an easy way to do drill after drill, and as they become better, to be carried on a gradual scaling up of difficulty of problem.

And there are vast numbers of "math apps" that supposedly do something like this. The math apps I've seen however just aren't entertaining - they are work.

But kids LOVE playing games - not "math apps". Given the choice, many kids would play games all the time if allowed.

I wonder why can't math drills be integrated into really great games? NOT in a crappy, forced-in-at-the-last-minute type thing, where it doesn't fit, isn't smooth, interrupts gameplay and feels out of place.

Instead, why can't math drills/practice be included an a cool, integrated way that feels natural and inspires the player and carries them logically up a difficulty curve?

For example, so many games incorporate some sort of combat, or D&D style/roguelike play. Why can't there be a gameplay mode where outcome of a battle is the outcome of being able to quickly do a calculation?

Imagine roaming through dungeon after dungeon, constantly doing quick sums to do things like open locked doors and chests, to cast a magic spell, to search for treasure etc etc.

Or card games like HearthStone - there are many games like this - can't cool/interesting math drills be built in to the combat?

And is there a way to equate leveling up with level of math capability gained?

I'm imaging a situation where kids love of gaming is combined with math repetition/practice so the more they play the game, the better they get at math.

And again to emphasise, I'm talking here about connecting quality, top end games and gameplay with math education, NOT overlaying math practice onto some C or D class "game" which is really just a way to make kids do sums.

Why does it seem that no-one has succeeded in building the coolest, most natural feeling and fun math practice into a game? MUST math practice and drills be boring?

I'd love to set kids loose on iPad games where they loved the high quality gameplay and at the same time got better at maths.
What you're saying is basically true, but to make a fair comparison you need to consider that in Italy as well you need to add municipal and regional tax (which together are probably around 1%) and particularly that you do pay for you mandatory retirement plan - not with your taxes, but with an additional mandatory withholding that goes from 25% to 35%; plus your employer has a 5% tax on its "profits", but said profits don't consider expenses for your wage, so it's effectively a 5% tax on your wage (this is of course in addition to the regular 26% tax on company profits, from which you can discount employee wages as expenses).

My impression is that the whole system is willingly structured in an overly complicated way, with taxes split between several payers and several taxable bases, so that you cannot know how much of your income are paying.

Also, the taxation is really similar between employees and self-employed workers; it's just that the latter have a marginally better grasp on how much they're paying.
>The EU needs a face, parties with cross-border support, democracy, mandate...

You know what's funny - US is constantly railing about inequality - meanwhile median income between poorest and richest EU members is close to 10x - in the US it's ~2-3 between states. It's no longer "the 1% are exploiting us" narrative and "democracy will save us" - these are similarly sized countries where people are 10x richer in one compared to the other.

And that's just one easily quantifiable difference of how diverse the EU actually is, broader point is - these are different countries with different culture, history, religion, economies, language, ethnicity, etc. pretending you can bunch them all up in to a single unit and that democracy makes any sense in this context is ridiculous.
Basically like this (just an example):

$100,000 income at 20% tax = $20,000

$35,000 income at 40% tax = $14,000

Switzerland's median income is between 2.5 and 3 times that of Italy. They have a smaller black market economy than Italy, so they're likely deriving a higher actual share of taxation out of it.

Further, the 16% referenced isn't complete. If you cap out the federal income tax in Switzerland, it's more likely you're paying a total of closer to 25-30% in income taxes (depending on what part of the country you're in), between federal, cantonal and municipal income taxes.
It doesn't.

There's a few different ways of creating debt-free money.

Government-created debt-free money has existed in the past, and can exist again. Using the UK system as an example, the minimum that would be required would be to update the Bank Charter Act of 1844 to include bank credit, so that private banks couldn't create money:

http://positivemoney.org/how-money-works/how-did-we-end-up-h...

It would then be the sole responsibility of the government to create money and spend it into the economy. In order to prevent hyperinflation, you could create an independent body responsible for setting how much new money could be created, which would be separate from the those who decided what the money was spent on.

As for other forms of debt-free money, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin also qualify. You do not owe interest to Bitcoin miners, when you own a Bitcoin it is debt-free, and it cannot be destroyed by paying off a debt.
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Well, you are arguing a slippery slope fallacy here. I never suggested that sites shouldn't be able to make money.

Speaking solely on behalf of myself as a single participant in the market, a content publisher who expects me to view ads (or pay money) to view even a single piece of their general interest journalism is not a publisher I am interested in consuming content from. I view that as a fairly irrational business model, and a strongarm tactic, and when I see a publisher do that I am done with them -- Wired, Forbes, etc. are all replaceable for me, I can go read another site, or play a game, or walk the dog.

You'd better believe I pay for lots of content and/or sit through ads when it's worth it to me. I just don't see why Wired's preference for a particular business model is more important than my preference for accessing the Internet through my machine on my connection with my time. I like an Internet where you get to choose the terms by which you access things.

Now I can simply hit back if a link on HN goes to a site that forbids adblockers. We're not talking life and death here. I'm just saying it would be a nice feature to have. From a hacker's point of view I think it's remiss to say we shouldn't build technology which helps people consume the Internet the way they want because certain types of publishers need to make a buck.
Doesn't he assume that causal relationships exist, and then show how to make calculations with them?
Oh but it does. Because you will essentially be destroying the wealth of the rich people. They will not agree to that.
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substituting unsustainable exploitation with somewhat sustainable (pretty sure those come with a slew of own problems) seafood farms is a good thing.

Oh absolutely, but you shouldn't lie about it.
The same dynamic affects couples. Both partners need jobs that are no more than two reasonable commutes apart. If you both do something fairly specialized, a lot of smaller places just aren't viable.

My SO and I both have fairly technical jobs. We occasionally talk about moving, but there is a surprisingly short list of cities where we are confident that we could both work. I find interesting jobs in out-of-the-way places (GE has some medical imaging stuff in Schenectady, for example), but without some incredible luck, it would tough-verging-on-impossible for us to make somewhere like that work.

In the US, universities (which are often in the middle of nowhere), sometimes try to compensate by hiring both partners. Power couples where either individual would be a catch in their own right have it easiest, but hotshots can sometimes land their solid-but-not-meteoric spouse a tenure-track job. I've even seen a few spouses hired into non-academic jobs in the university's accounting or legal departments.

Do any companies do something similar? It seems like it would be a huge boon to recruiting, especially outside of huge cities.
They do. In my current research I've been working on metric embeddings to solve the question analogies of the flavor "Favorite Sushi Restaurant:Current City::???:Foreign City". It takes some work to remove the geographic signal that is overwhelmingly present in fan and checkin data.
Is it me or is it impossible to scroll that page in Safari?
"trained professional in a medical setting [...] trained professional."

This implies that you oppose testing, because with those expenses it's just not happening. Nobody likes to pay a 4-digit sum to look at a dozen spots on the genome, and then another test and another 4-digit sum to look at a few more (separate office visit of course), and then again...
I don't know this one... when not D3 I was using Gephi or igraph (see http://kateto.net/network-visualization, it has also Python bindings).