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In the Reddit model, it would be nice to have sub-sub-reddits, where a splinter group can discussion a facet. For example, given a Redis subreddit, there could be a Lua-Redis sub-sub-reddit with a smaller audience and whose best posts bubbled up to the parent. I find that a smaller but more active community is preferable over a larger anonymous, passive one. People are quicker to help each other out, share w/o feeling stupid and don't blend into the background, keeping snark and insult to minimum.

As you mention, it is broadcast vs discussion.
Show me an example of federal cases in which a legislator has recused themselves like the way you expect Clinton to do.

Or, why do you hold her to a higher standard than others? (Yes I think they're all corrupt.)
It's a sha256. It could definitely be a checksum for a file, although hashes like this is not an uncommon way to generate a large, unique password from a small string or phrase.

Most passwords can be easily brute forced. A 64-byte string is a lot harder to brute force.

I actually think a sha2 is a little bit weird for a file checksum. I would expect md5 or a regular sha1. Or simply send the file with a gpg signature to validate the integrity (provided he still has some sort of trusted public key). Either way any off-the-shelf Mac can generate and verify these checksums.

My guess is that Snowden is starting to feel homesick and wants to start the process of returning to the USA. That's why he said "It's time." The tweet could be a password or a code to something but I don't think it's meant to embarrass or expose anybody.
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In the context of physics this is not clickbait. It is an actual nightmare for physics because they have spent years and billions building this extremely complex machine. The fact that they are not seeing new physics means that they did all this work to verify the existence of a single particle. Beyond that they are not discovering anything new. It's a nightmare because it tells you that even if you build a bigger more powerful machine you may not see anything new. If you aren't going to see anything new, you can't justify building it. Also the machine required to see new physics might have to be so large that it's not practical to build. It means the end of the road for this kind of particle physics. It also means that theoretically we've been at a dead end for a long time.
Arrival of sophons confirmed.
But picking at that a bit, if I were to run a simple off-the-shelf Django setup against MySQL, I'd use GAE (if not Standard than certainly Flexible). My code wouldn't be any different than deploying it to a raw VM, so I'm not locked in and could deploy it on DO, AWS or anywhere else in a heartbeat. In the meantime, I don't have to deal with setting up load balancing, autoscaling, DNS per module, etc. so I get some real value from that.

Is your concern the lock-in from the code standpoint, or operational "lock-in" that once you've got all this set up for you, you'd have to go replicate it to get out? If the latter, aren't you saying you're going to do that on Day 1 in the "avoid PaaS" case?
My point was that it would be if Airbnb's fundraising were truly a pyramid scheme, which it obviously is not.
I suspect a lot of folks would say skip rehabbing that person and try to deal effectively with a person who is getting out. There isn't an infinite amount of money and the extra little bit spent properly might make the difference between productive citizen and career criminal.
It depends. Cheap Intel boards come with a 32bit UEFI (for whatever reason, it's not like UEFI is paid by the address bit), leading to all kinds of issues.

But even then, segmentation is not an issue.
This guy seems like a decent writer. Apparently, if I hired him at US rates, he would be wealthy beyond his wildest dreams. Why isn't there more remote work going on?
Most compilers use AST for internal intermediate code. TempleOS uses a stack machine intermediate code. At the end, it converts from intermediate code to x86_64 machine code.
I am currently involved in a situation that is comically absurd in its scope of abuse of power. It almost sounds like a movie.

The main person attacking me is a federal level law enforcement officer and politician working in the private sector. He is employed by a shady multi-billionaire who is objectively bad but I can't elaborate why.

All the others involved from the police, prosecutors and Judge are more perpetrating a conspiracy of indifference and incompetence.

This federal law enforcement person harassed my colleagues, lied about me, influenced a Judge and has continued to dedicate a huge amount of resources to me. He made a mistake attacking me, thinking I would be intimidated by him. Instead, his actions did the opposite. I did not break any law and the current charge against me is minor, unrelated and supposed to be dismissed.

Before it was, he had a Judge revoke my $0 bail, set it for $80,000 and sent 5 felony undercover warrant detectives after me and a team of private investigators.

Essentially it started as a dispute between me and some wealthy people, and the federal official got involved because his employer has a financial incentive.

This has been going on for a year and a few days ago, he sent my friend a long email at 11pm at night. Saying all this stuff and that he was dispatching a "team" to come hunt me down. He asked for my address.

I told my friend to send him a copy of my driver's license with my current address on and he did. The federal official is so dumb that he doesn't realize that my friend and I are toying with him. He thinks my friend is working against me but he's just collecting information for me.

I also have all these incriminating tapes, including of the official saying he doesn't want to know about serious criminals involved in exploitation etc. Instead, he is trying to prevent a scandal and so he has viciously attacked me.
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One of the main implementors of TLS in Chrome answered why: <https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/01/17/notdane.html>.

It boils down to:

* Getting the DANE and DNSSEC records to the end users' machines is surprisingly difficult (they recorded 4-5% failure to lookup TXT records that they knew existed), so requiring that it be done to accept a certificate isn't going to work.

* DNSSEC uses 1024-bit RSA, which is now considered too weak to use in web browsers, and the IETF/ICANN refuse to up its security.
Here's what I read on each paragraph:

1p: The mathematics that allow physicists to reconstruct the structure of matter is fascinating.

2p: The standard model, though ugly, is still undefeated (with examples).

3p: The LHC hasn't led to the discovery of new particles, and physicists are in denial (with examples and a link).

4p: There is a worrying trend about the failure to learn from failure.

5p: The trust in naturalness/beauty/simplicity to guide the search for a unified model is not working.

6p: Turns out "naturalness" is philosophical, not scientific.

7p: Physicists are opportunistic, so they'll try to justify a larger collider to try to discover new particles.

8p: The nightmare scenario: no new particles discovered with the LHC, so physicists have no guidance to continue.

9p: We've been doing it wrong with the use of naturalness as guidance. You can't trust the judgement of scientists when their future funding depends on continuing working in this direction.

So paragraphs 1 through 7 do offer a good background to support his thesis that "naturalness as guidance" is wrongheaded, which is the real point of the article. If you only read the last paragraphs his thesis sounds shaky and arbitrary.
I thought a while back they had decided to treat bitcoin like an asset? IIRC: http://www.marketplace.org/2014/03/25/economy/irs-labels-bit...
Ask HN: Small Keyboard that work for programming?
I'm attempting to build a portable setup for programming. By which I mean smaller than a laptop, but larger than a cell phone. While monitors are no problem (if it can fit 80 chars across somewhere between ~12 and ~18pt monospace, I'm good), but the keyboard remains an issue. As I'm shooting for minimal form factor, smaller is better, and while you can get accuracy on a cell-size keyboard, they all-to often omit control and alt (Emacs user), and the ergonomics can be awful: If it's awkward and slow for 5 minutes, it becomes intolerable for an hour. Price is a factor as well.

So, does anybody have any suggestions for a small (8in, preferably less), keyboard for a reasonable (<$50, no mechanical switches) price?
I really like mysteries like this one. They defy simple explanations and force us to work harder to learn more about our world. Sort of like the bright spots on Ceres, which are still pretty awesome.
It's not encryption vs. safety. It's functioning software systems vs safety and there is actually no conflict because functioning systems are necessary for safety.

So really the FBI director should have phrased it as "lack of encryption vs. safety".
Your analogy is not great, IMO. In this case, AirBnb is the shoe, the web browser and device used to access it is the shoe store.
Fundamentally, the underlying inspiration is the growth of these companies. The fact that interest rates are so low, and that investors are chasing yield elsewhere, helps to enable it. However, these deals would still happen even if debt were more expensive. On the other hand, if the company weren't showing promising growth, then the deals would not happen.
Absolutely. And iOS has demonstrated that on an even broader scale. If there is one thing I can't stand about Apple systems, it's the utter lack of options to let me work the way that I want.

With iOS it starts with the very first interaction - swiping to unlock. I can't disable it. Android and Windows both let me disable this. I just want `instant on` for certain devices (like 8 inch tablets) that I don't generally carry around in my pocket. But no. The closest I can get with iOS is enabling "Touch ID to unlock" which doesn't work sporadically and has bad timing.

The main thing I do on my tablet is web browsing, but web browsing sucks on iOS compared to browsing on my Dell Venue Pro 8 with full Chrome and all the extensions that I want.

I really wish that I could get into using mobile apps, but they'll never replace the web for me and I just can't deal with the 2nd rate web browsing in iOS which is directly caused by Apple's policies.
You don't want to earn a profit. You want to lose as much money as possible. The more money you lose the better. Earning profit implies that you already matured and stopped growing and the amount of profit will always be disappointing, lowering the value of the company.
I have blind-spots of dense thinking. I appreciate your response. In particular...

> You might call out technically illegal practices others might be willing to put up with, for example.

It routinely still amazes me that companies want armies of Yes Men to willingly go forth into that good night at the drop of a paper-clip without so much as a "yes but".

You know what that is? An army of dumb-AI robots, which we already have but not to grand-high scale.
You seem deliberately obtuse but the point is that cities dedicate huge amounts of what is ultra-prime real estate to the movement of cars, often single passenger, while neglecting public transport or most basic of all pedestrian movements. It doesn't require a PhD to realize that individual motor transport is useless for the efficient transport of large number of people.

The biggest waste of all is free parking.
Brand it all you want. Food companies ultimately boil down to the food they serve. Subway was able to capitalize on the early days of the revolt against Fried Fast Food, but floundered badly. Most of the sandwiches are just as unhealthy as class Fast Food, all of the restaurants have the weird yeasty smell, and you almost always walk out with a soggy mess.
Lots of these are on the market

https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Bluetooth-Ultra-Slim-Keyboard-D...
You're looking at it from an overly pessimistic perspective. jQuery didn't solve any new problems, there were tons of libraries that solved the exact same problems in different ways at the time that it came out, like MooTools, Dojo, and Scriptaculous/Prototype. jQuery was not innovative, it didn't save the world from anything. It's biggest selling point was that the code was easy for designers to pick up, eliminating a lot of the need for the designer/developer dichotomy.

tldr; jQuery's success was not innovation or unification, it was an easy to pick up syntax. From there it was all inertia.
Don't everybody do that with stickers?
I think you're misreading the article. Science is about theory and observation, with no presumption that the latter must fit the former.

As much as a physicist might hope to uncover a universal law that is simple enough for children to memorize yet subtle enough to warrant a lifetime of learning to fully understand, nature is perfectly content with fundamental parameters that settle into working values completely at random.
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It must be nice to be immortal. You're immortal right? The rest of us have limited time.
>Ah, the article starts in the eighth paragraph. Summary: read paragraphs 8 and the last, 9.

Perhaps you mean "the subject of the title" begins in the eight paragraph.

The essence of an article or book or movie is not always at the title. Nor it's necessary for it to move to what the title says as fast as possible.
If the creators are on HN, curious to know what sets this apart from other threat intel services like IBM X-Force, ThreatConnect, VirusTotal, Carbon Black, etc.
Once or twice a month Forth and Lisp posts get repeated...
Countries that have a very high focus on the 'rehab' part of prison usually don't issue lifetime and certainly not multiple-lifetime sentences. Instead they tend to send people into mandated psychiatric care (in practice often life-long) or, if a person is 'sane' yet still very likely to cause damage to others than they are placed in 'preventive detention' which is still just 'being in prison' but does not carry any punitive notions and needs to be actively renewed every few years.
Thank you. This is the sort of reasoning I was looking for.

Now, I'd counter your argument here by stating that it appears Airbnb had over 100% growth in 2015, and Expedia and HomeAway had 24% and 20% growth respectively.[1]

Given that, is it unrealistic to assume the market can support 14% YoY growth (or higher) for the next ten years?

[1]: https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/airbnb-hospitality-industry-...
> Wouldn't popping the hood also require breaking a window or otherwise getting in the car to pull the release?

There are a fair amount of modern cars that don't actually require you to get into the car to pop the hood if you know what you're doing. On earlier cars[1] there was no latch inside the car.

1) they don't have the electronics for this stuff however - simple hot wiring will do
Ironic that this is posted on Medium...
There are still tons of Indians who speak English, which may be a small percentage, but a huge market overall (for example, 5% of 1326M is 66.3M).
We don't, but I haven't seen any around.
Pretty sure not hiring pothead hackers is a bigger problem for the FBI than the encryption they keep whining about.
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It reminds me of Facebook stickers. I get those a lot from Asian friends.
No problem. :)

You can also use <Stuck Key> + <Program> in cases where you only have instance of the stuck key. Alt or super in the default layout, for example.
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But that means whenever you buy or sell it, the government can tax the shit out of it.

The government always comes for its vig.
I am a slow reader and every paragraph which is not about "the thing" makes me question the value of what I'm reading.

Clicking on a title with this amount of drama and urgency, I expect to read something related to the title. So I see this as clickbait of sorts.

Makes me wonder if writing of this type comes from educational requirements having a word minimum, equating wordiness with value.

Similar to YouTube tutorials filling 5 minutes with fluff before the 30 seconds of what I was hoping to see.

I wish there was a "scroll to the topic related to the link you clicked" kind of thing.
The Feds are probably furious. Replacing the U.S. currency is seen as a threat; any and all alternative types of 'medium of exchange' have been ruthlessly attacked/shut down by the Feds. They could step in and appeal this judge's ruling in the Federal courts to either overrule this Florida judge, or to extremely limit the application of her ruling.

The Feds one year ago sought to take down coin.mx and they will not likely want this Florida judge's ruling to confuse the legality of transferring bitcoin between parties.

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/newyork/news/pr...
While I'm sympathetic to your point, that quote is always taken out of context: http://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famous...

> He was writing about a tax dispute between the Pennsylvania General Assembly and the family of the Penns, the proprietary family of the Pennsylvania colony who ruled it from afar. And the legislature was trying to tax the Penn family lands to pay for frontier defense during the French and Indian War. And the Penn family kept instructing the governor to veto. Franklin felt that this was a great affront to the ability of the legislature to govern. And so he actually meant purchase a little temporary safety very literally. The Penn family was trying to give a lump sum of money in exchange for the General Assembly's acknowledging that it did not have the authority to tax it.

> It is a quotation that defends the authority of a legislature to govern in the interests of collective security. It means, in context, not quite the opposite of what it's almost always quoted as saying but much closer to the opposite than to the thing that people think it means.
Linguistic apartheid is a pretty loaded term, they aren't teaching one's mother tongue, which, to me is like any other subject. You can still learn it elsewhere.

It may be discrimination but apartheid is an exaggeration.
My personal theory about the EV advantage in acceleration/torque control is that it's not really that much better than similar class petrol cars, but that when the car is completely silent, people don't have the same aversion to flooring the pedal. So it's effectively better.

I've raced my brother-in-law out of red lights a few times, him in a Nissan Leaf, me in a Peugeot 307 with a 1.6 110 hp petrol engine. I can keep up, but I have to stay above 3000 RPM throughout all gear changes, so it's really loud. Most people never drive a petrol car like that, you sound like an idiot boy racer.
They get commissions on the calls, which often directly benefit the employees.
It's pretty popular.
> For the record, buses in Glasgow have to travel at 10mph to enter the bus station, and do so with ease.

Buses and trucks tend to have gearboxes with lots of gears (e.g. 12 forward and 6 back), so they can afford low gears with very high ratios (engine to wheel rpm) for fine manoeuvres.

> If you're driving a car beefy enough that it's impossible to do that

Less an issue of power and more an issue of gears count and gears ratio. Also according to other commenters automatic apparently don't truly idle and settle at relatively high speed: someone quoted 15mph unless the driver is actively braking. Even with high power, you can run a stick idle in1st gear and likely not reach 10km/h.
Some Ford Rangers[1] were pretty easy to enter from the small back window. A small flip and the latch opened.

My sympathies on the Ford Ranger if you had it in a climate with snow. I had 700 lbs of sand in the bed over the back axle and good snow tires (not studs) and still got stuck. Everyone I talked to thought those things were death traps.

1) along with the Mazda B4000 which was a Ford Ranger with a different paint job and grill - even said Ford Ranger in the door
Just a white screen for me too, Safari on a Mac.
> "The use of any apparatus, whether or not wireless telegraphy apparatus, for the purpose of interfering with any wireless telegraphy

I highlighted the important bits. Hammers aren't illegal either, unless you're using them to smash out headlights.
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Here is the law: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/36/section/8

It refers to "telegraph station" and "apparatus". A Faraday cage is not a telegraph station, so it must be an apparatus to be covered under that law.

What does that mean? I think it's defined in http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/426/regulation/3/mad... :

> “apparatus” means any finished appliance or combination of appliances, liable to generate electromagnetic disturbance, or the performance of which is liable to be affected by such disturbance, and which generates, or is designed to generate, or is liable to generate fortuitously, electromagnetic energy at frequencies not exceeding 3,000 gigahertz and includes—

> (a) components or sub-assemblies intended for incorporation into an apparatus by an end-user, which are liable to generate electromagnetic disturbance, or the performance of which is liable to be affected by such disturbance;

> (b) mobile installations defined as a combination of apparatus and, where applicable, other devices, intended to be moved and operated in a range of locations;

Are you arguing that a Faraday cage is a "finished appliance or combination of appliances"? And it "generates, or is designed to generate, or is liable to generate fortuitously, electromagnetic energy"?

If not, then it is not an apparatus, and so not regulated under the law you pointed to.

If you still think it is illegal, then please cite the actual law, and not some commentary about the law, as commentaries are more open to misinterpretation.
I've never understood the desire for beauty in a theory of everything. Reality clearly isn't beautiful through and through, but at its corners it is awfully complex and arbitrary. If anything, reality is much like the outcomes of an evolutionary process, a mere hack of various mechanisms that happen to give rise to the relatively stable patterns we experience. Of course, fundamental research needs the optimism that we can compress all of that in ever smaller formulae, but I think there is no unambiguous evidence that we should actually expect that to be possible. The most striking piece of counter evidence is actually the kind of reality we experience in the first place. Imagine a universe in which its inhabitants would be able to figure out its fundamental principles. These inhabitants would likely immediately conquer all available space and use it to maximize the reward signals that evolution has equipped them with and thus transform everything into something completely different from the world we are experiencing. A universe with a reality like ours and that is fully understandable at the same time is thus (together with various other assumptions) a logical impossibility.
Anything else that's diff? I almost never use my f keys do its not a big deal for me.
They can try. Seems more and more like they're moving too slowly to keep up, though.
Same. Especially since El Capitan I've had nothing but trouble with SIP (System Integrity Protection), both in working with OpenVPN (due to unsigned interface .kexts) and even in simple stuff such as trying to pip install something that overwrites an already existing library outside of a virtual environment.

I'm root, it's my system, I know what I'm doing, Apple! If I have to install Ubuntu on VirtualBox to get a controllable UNIX system back I might aswell do it on my ThinkPad with Windows 10, which as a bonus has a decent keyboard, upgradeable RAM and hot-swappable battery.
There's the minor detail of the neuveau-communist military dictatorship.

The whole problem with the country are self-inflicted wounds.
I was my understanding that anything with tables is problematic. Also, did Amazon stop charging for conversion?