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> "Current emissions are more than 25% below 1990 levels - can you say such thing about America, China or India?"

Between 1990 and 2013, CO2 emissions in the United states fell from 19.6 tons per capita to 16.6. That's around a 15.6% decrease.

Russia had a drop of around 23.5% in the same time frame.

China and India both had dramatic increases though.

http://edgar.jrc.ec.europa.eu/overview.php?v=CO2ts_pc1990-20...
Just getting the code-base released under the ALv2 was a win for the world at large. Even if we never pushed out a single release, at least the code is out there now, under a permissive license, where anybody can use it. That alone makes the whole exercise worthwhile, no matter what happens next.
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> However, one take some key material and calculate HMAC("ChaCha20", key material) and HMAC("Poly1305", key material) and use those keys for the two algorithms.

See also: HKDF
"On the mailing list" is like "in China". It may be accurate but it hardly narrows the search.
Done and done! Thanks for that suggestion. I'm not a big fan of self promotion, so it takes a lot for me to "sell" myself.
Fair enough, and thank you for the info :) It looks like a very interesting project.
Yeah, I mean if it won't beat a CRC wouldn't ECC RAM be a reasonably easy solution to this and wouldn't most servers already be secured against it?
Exactly right. The TV itself is a durable product my TV is 8 years old. This is what I like about the modular approach of "pluggable" smarts. Upgrade the smarts by upgrading the cheaper smart module in this case Chromecast or Fire or Apple TV.
As far as I can tell, the "LibreOffice brand" is "OpenOffice but harder to pronounce and spell".
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French is the worst thing to happen to language.

What's that open Nvidia driver called? Novou? Neauveau? Nouveau? Neauvou? Fuck it.
Yup. Some remarkable code snippets would be cool.
In that case, you might be better off investing in an OTP device? [1]

It's hard to make a strong recommendation without knowing where on the scale of 1 to RMS you are...

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/531926/a-physical-key-to-...
It's currency independent. Instead of having to provide a different price for each country/currency, you can just say it's a certain number of credits and simplify the look of your store for it. That's one reason why it's common in virtual stores in games (it is still a dark pattern and can be used to take advantage of people, I agree, but it also has its benefits).

Everyone around the world can discuss an item and be like 'it costs 50 tokens for blah' and do comparisons between items in the store based on simple token amounts, but actually be paying different costs (and see different amounts) for it with their own currency.

To use programmer terms, it adds a layer of abstraction on top of the service, with all the associated pros and cons that goes along with that.
What I don't understand is why the government isn't building housing to sell. You'd put workers back to work, and prevent some of these crazy expensive prices. It seems like all developers want to build are mcmansions and luxury apartments they can sell for tremendous profits. Where are the cheap starter homes and condos?
mmmh...Now I am thinking that you may be able to use the tin foil on top of the steaks to keep it hotter.
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If you'd like wages to rise, ban non-wage compensation (e.g. health insurance) rather than subsidizing it.

Compensation has risen consistently, it's just been mostly (untaxed) non-wage compensation.

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I have several devices and enjoy being sometimes login on stray device I don't own.
Sounds more like a job than a side project.
I agree, these are basically the lecture notes for the course.
For those of you worried about your aws workloads, this may help make ya feel a (slight) bit better.

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How exactly is OO excellent and LO good?

What is that based on?
Please back that up.
I made this same point the other day and got down voted for suggesting that Ireland may leave the EU over this.
There is a free Markdown-based collaborative editing website I use. Wonderful stuff. Free (did I mention that?).

Signing up enrolls your user email into a drip marketing thread, from "Joe", the founder. He asks "how's it going? can I help?" I reply with thanks and a couple of questions. No reply.

A few days later, a canned follow-up email from "Joe", etc.

As I try to figure out the service and sharing, I sign up with another email address. Bam, the same number of hours later, a "personal" query from "Joe", as above.

Research suggests that "Joe" has abandoned this side project (his right, of course).

I'd suggest though that "drip marketing" + abandoned site is an anti-pattern. I'd be happier with "Joe" and his free service if I'd never gotten the transactional email (especially the second or third in the sequence, when he's never replied.)

The oddly good news: the lack of replies plus the Googling it instigated made me realize I was relying on an abandoned project, so of course I backed up my stuff.
> Both ZFS and ASLR are more interesting for servers than for desktops.

On what basis are these claims made? I'm tired of hearing this excuse trotted out every time someone posts about ZFS or ASLR.

ZFS (or a filesystem possessing many of the same characteristics) is absolutely still valuable even on desktops. With consumer storage devices reaching ever loftier maximum capacities, data integrity becomes even more important as the loss of that data can have a profound impact on a person's life.

Given the questionable quality of hardware in many consumer devices, having a filesystem that detects corruption as it is happening, and works to ensure that it is corrected automatically when possible, seems like an obvious win.

While a typical consumer is unlikely to have a ZFS raid device even if they had ZFS, they would still benefit from all of the other protections it offers. It should be fairly telling that Apple is adopting many of the same technologies ZFS offers in their own consumer filesystem (except, regrettably, checksumming) because they too understand that it does matter.

As for ASLR, that's important too because it's yet another mitigation tool to make it less likely that an individual system is compromised. Haven't the past few years of various malware/ransomware announcements been enough? We should consider every practical tool available at our disposal to mitigate such attacks as valuable.
Now we all understand understand point 2 (companies are legal persons which can be dissolved easily absolving smart company owners of responsibility) how much of the rest of this post should be reconsidered/retracted?
What's funny about this idea is that if your site is in .COM, even in DANE, your CA is Verisign --- the oldest and best known of the SSL CAs.
nope, did not know that, comment and learn!
It makes you wonder what a shuttle program unencumbered by political compromise would look like.

A space station on an orbit where it could be used as a way station for manned exploration further afield.
There are many problems with moving to the Midwest. It's like someone suggesting moving to Puerto Rico to save on money since a place with a vastly different culture is not simply interchangeable (and I'm saying this as someone who has lived all over the U.S.).

Edit: for the downvotes lets remember that Puerto Rico is part of the U.S. and that Puerto Ricans are American (i.e. estadounidense).
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> There is a great deal of both law and precedent against perfect privacy in financial transactions, because of the strong association between such perfect privacy and criminality, and the very effective cover which the former affords the latter.

This is true, but "this is how we've always done it" is a very poor reason to do something.

The problem with this is that those in power determine what is considered criminal, which is only vaguely correlated with what is unethical enough to be worth criminalizing.

> But it is also a wildly heterodox view not generally sympathetic to those who are not already privacy absolutists or likely to become so, and you may find it worth your while to consider whether this particular hill is the one you want to die on.

If you were actually offering me advice for my own good, I'd take it for what it is. But you aren't. This is just a way of making it sound like privacy is not worth talking about. If you want to make an actual point against privacy I'd be happy to respond to it.

I don't appreciate your advice as advice, because it's clearly ignorant of my actual goals. The thing about mathematically-enforced privacy is that it doesn't have to become the orthodoxy to become effective.
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I don't want to control the user agent, I just want to programatically announce that I am not talking part in the Brave micro-tip system, so that no end-user funds are put in a wallet for me which will never be withdrawn.

Looking into this further, they would eventually email me after there are $10 worth of funds queued up for me, and then after 30 days of me ignoring them, those funds would be spread out amongst other sites who do want them.

However, until that wallet has at least $10 in it, Brave is just sitting on top of free money. I don't want that.

[edit] P.S, Brave doesn't identify it's self in the user agent header. I just downloaded the Linux version and it identified it's self thus:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36
> Though, the more I read about Chinese politics the less adds up, much like Western politics. It makes me wonder if everything we're taught about China is fabrication, propaganda, lies, half truths and spin - much the same as our own political system.

Bearing the risk the getting a lot of down votes, I can tell you that there is definitely truth in your statement. And from the comments I read here, I sense that generally HN has a out of proportionally negative attitude towards China related news (Not this story in particular though, WSJ has been fairly neutral. NYT, on the other hand, is the extreme of negativism towards China, for example).

Disclaimer: I grew up in China the first half of my life and immigrated to the U.S. since college. And I read both Chinese/English news media equally and with healthy dose of skepticism.
Any of them, since DNSSEC validation doesn't occur in stub resolvers, but is instead delegated to the caches (the "DNS servers" you or DHCP configures).

DNSSEC was designed in the mid-1990s, before protocol designers understood crypto, and it was carefully designed to minimize cryptography. Several other bad attributes fall out of that decision as well.
How else would you suggest they maintain the infrastructure without turning the users back into the product?
Monetizing your 20% project can turn it into a job!
Thanks, that's the answer I was looking for. Other commenters seemed to think I was asking why they test at all!
Of course. Something like that would be a compatibility and testing nightmare. Users aren't going to be content dealing with PC style driver issues with a mobile device. And to gain what? The ability to upgrade or customize a phone? Why? Do your mobile device needs change that often?

A better idea is to attack the areas where apple and samsung are retreating. Replaceable batteries, memory cards, peripheral connections etc...
Why do you think your ancedotes are the authoritative source of information on all women?
The tragic thing about this is that it prevents people in places like the northeastern US from realising that the phenomenon of real BBQ exists. I know that until met my wife at age 23, I had never even seen actual slow-cooked collagen-has-turned-to-gelatin BBQ.

This isn't an instance of the Scotsman fallacy, it is a genuine category error.
Strong agree.
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What reasons are there to prefer OpenOffice? From my perspective, I hear about LibreOffice updates often, and OpenOffice doesn't sound like it's being maintained as much. I don't know if this is actually correct, but I never understood what the need was for keeping them separate after Oracle gave up OO to Apache. LibreOffice seems to have 'won' popular attention if nothing else, and is the one included in distros now.

Having two forks competing just seems confusing and a waste of effort on maintaining two forks. Initially it made sense to have a fully open fork when OpenOffice was under Oracle's control, but I don't understand what the purpose the two forks serve now that OO is under Apache's control.
It's an interesting counterpoint. Except his generalization is based on the actual behavior of whatever sample he's seen. I'll also note that Google hyperfocuses recruiting on specific types of people in a way that automatically excludes all kinds of talent and people based on superficial criteria. Your counterpoint works on them too. ;)
Everyone always knew this was never reach the mainstream consumer but I would've liked to seen something released.
So they are proud to make ads?
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> Not many people purposefully use unique, individual email addresses for every single service they sign up for...

When they do, generally email for all of them ends up in the same account anyway.
I'm not sure if that's true for the U.S. I feel like peoples' standards have just gotten a lot higher.

I grew up in an upper middle class D.C. suburb. My parents and my brother and I lived in an 1,100 square foot house and had one car. This was typical 25 years ago. My peer group these days makes substantially more money than my dad did back then, and might live in a 1,000 square foot apartment for just two people, and still talk about how expensive it is to start a family. It seems like the minimum standard now is being able to afford a 2,000 square foot house and private school for the kids.
Well, the thread is about "App Store Improvements". That's the title of the post. Also, I AM a mobile developer... I mostly browse the web on my iPad. I use very few premium apps. Procreate was the last one that I purchased.

Anyway - please explain to me why should I pay $4.99 for a simple network utility that lets me do PING, NSLOOKUP, TRACEROUTE, etc? Do you really have a problem if I spend my time searching for a free app that doesn't have ads before I decide to buy one? And why do you think I should be responsible for supporting developers who spent a whole week building some low-hanging-fruit app?

As a matter of fact, I know how to build both native and hybrid iOS apps, so sometimes if I can't find an app I just build it myself. I can't imagine anyone having a problem with that.

Well, except for Apple. I don't like Apple very much so I avoid giving them any money at all if I can. I always buy used or refurbished Apple hardware from Amazon, Ebay and other places and I think long and hard before purchasing any iOS app since Apple gets 30%.
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By taking a lot less than 5% of the donations and creating a successful and widely used product.
> Unsubscription process is notoriously annoying.

Really? Clicking a link? And Gmail often even adds their own "Unsubscribe" button.
This is absurdly sexist.
And maybe rewrite it in C# and call it OctothorpOffice...
"Why put a massive effort to work your ass off, if you won't have anything to do with the money?"

This one is nearly as whiny as your strange stereotype of woman.
Games can be some very large complex projects. Did you guys write it in javascript or some other language and compile to js?

If you guys did just write in js did you use any other tooling for features like modules?

The game looks cool, and I'm thinking about buying it. It's nice to show that electron is a viable platform for games, because you easily gain cross platform compatibility with linux / mac.
Great points!

If there are no incentives (or in reality - negative incentives) for men to fulfill their traditional roles in society then why should men do that?

Financially - you're absolutely right, you're not getting anywhere in life on one income. To make any real money you have to really bust your ass as an entrepreneur but lets get real - vast majority of people don't have the motivation, discipline and desperation to do that.

Marriage is a pretty much a scam for men - a voluntary agreement to be a beast of burden. 80% of men shouldn't be married (at least not to people they are).
I would agree for the most part.
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Mail.com? Outlook.com? A lot of them, if you provide an SMS number, you'll need to verify it, but you can skip it by providing security questions or an alternate email address (that itself does not need to be verified).
Using an -ism in an attempt to shut down an opinion? Just explain WHY?
>> If it's implemented correctly

That's the problem, I have trust issues with the people in power being capable of doing such a thing.
Unless your mother knows not to go to a site without an EV certificate, it doesn't really matter that much.

The certificate pinning is valuable in terms of preventing MITMs by rogue CAs, but the EV itself doesn't seem to really add much.
Well, there are some things that some adblockers do that umatrix doesn't:

Selector-based DOM element removal/hiding and blocking of specific requests by URL instead of by domain
Honestly I'd trust MS code on my linux box over anything Oracle puts out.
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See also this discussion on the mailing list, where I asked (recently, August 3rd) if it is a viable idea to somehow combine efforts with LibreOffice again:

http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@openoffice.apache.org/msg277...
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Huh. I almost thought this would be Screeps, but no! Interesting...
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> That's the problem advertising faces; as soon as you encourage people with disposable income to avoid all advertising, the whole system becomes pointless.

And if you don't offer that option, more and more people will just block your ads for free.
I got many Russian visas in my life in Europe and not once did i not use an intermediary. In Austria if you want to go thrrough the consulate you need to go through VHS first. In London VFS does it etc.
The western media makes China out to be less crazy and dysfunctional than it actually is, probably because no one would actually believe them if they reported more on the truth. E.g. China's pollution is much worse than western news story would suggest, it literally is unimaginable to most westerners.

If you want a real perspective on China, move there, or at least read Chinese propaganda directly (chinadaily, globaltimes). The latter is especially useful given how bad it is, and you quickly realize how much scarily closer China is teetering towards a DPRK-style dictatorship than would be apparent just by reading CNN.