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U.S. judge lists one year’s government electronic surveillance requests in DC
The word you're looking for is "inspiration".

Watching Fight Club is absolutely not the same experience as watching Mr Robot.
> Microsoft is not in the meetings when Google PMs decide the roadmap

AFAICT [0], the AMP project is an open source project directed by its Tech Lead and Core Committers, which are a self-sustaining group (with Google, Inc. appointing a new Tech Lead in the event there are no Core Committers), even if the initial set was set by Google, and there is no barrier to Microsoft participating as fully as anyone else in that project.

[0] largely, from the project's own governance document on github, https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/GOVERNANCE...
So unless I want to use Siri on my computer (I don't) or tighter integration with iPhones (which I don't use), this update brings mostly nothing of significance.
Over a year ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223645
I agree with the predominant two suggestions here: to use Trello, and to do a little more planning up front.

But it also looks like you are having some issues with getting back into the zone quickly, without too much overhead. A trick that writers use is to apparently write an incomplete line at the end of the draft. You can try something similar - depending on your project, this could be something as simple a quick note on something you can do in exactly 5 minutes the next time you set down with some detailed steps if possible (for additional context).

Its just a suggestion, which is unfortunately not backed by personal experience (I have faced other challenges with my side projects but not the one you mention).
Have you tried StorageMadeEasy.com ? Connects to dropbox and other clouds too.
"Russia, if I Googled correctly." You clearly trust Google to some extent, since you search with it.

I don't think you can accuse Google of not taking security seriously. They are making a security tradeoff that allows governments and insiders access to private data. This is a legitimate tradeoff to make, and a legitimate thing to criticize them for. Apple makes a different choice, and it's important that we have a debate around which is the right security design.

But making a claim that Google is not serious about security does a disservice to the really good people there who move mountains to secure the service.
Well the US are rather good at it.
I won't do business with Lenovo after running into multiple BIOS soft locks. The first, I was attempting to install a WiMaX card into some random laptop, and the last Thinkpad I had was BIOS locked to only be able to accept the 80GB HDD that it came with. It would have been so snappy with an SSD! It has been three years now that I refuse to purchase any products from the company and six years since I ran into their first BIOS soft lock. I was yelling about it back then, but nobody gave a shit.

swings a lit lantern around the marketplace at noon

BIOS IS DEAD! AND YOU HAVE KILLED IT!
This makes me so angry. Your poor wife! We have laws to protect the identity of victims in many cases in the USA for this very reason.

We really need to draw a firm line about this "blame the victim" behavior. I haven't experienced it in any grave crime, but I had my bicycle stolen and instantly had to deal with a litany of people saying I shouldn't have locked it with a cable lock (I wasn't even using a cable lock), I shouldn't have put it where thieves could see it, etc. We all know it's 1000x worse for other crimes, like sex crimes.

Victim blaming is comforting because it saves the blamers from the knowledge that life deals random blows and it could happen to anyone, including them. They'd much rather think that they are smart and safe, and that the victim did something wrong.
> Maybe it's just me, but I kind of find this a bit creepy.

As long as the person on the other end knows that he's on-camera, I think it's NBD. The trick is ensuring that eh really does know that, and isn't picking his teeth, washing his hands &c.
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This is not constructive, but what a dickhead.
> Selegiline

Interesting. I just moved and my new doctor just recently suggested maybe trying MAOI's. I've found a medication that has been absolutely wonderful for depression, but I have yet to find anything that helps with anxiety other than Klonopin and that's definitely not a long-term solution (I'm tapering off of it for the second time right now). I haven't been taking stimulants for ADHD though, I've been taking them for narcolepsy.

I'll definitely look into Selegiline now, thanks!

Edit: Oh wait:

> it doesn't have a noticeable narcotic/stimulant effect

I kind of need the stimulant effect because of the narcolepsy.
Performance? Just how fast do you type, anyway?

UI? I write things, and they appear in front of someone else. Even my technophobe mom has no problems with it.

Tied to Google... well, yeah. But you kind of need some kind of 'account' for chat apps.

I remember when 'Whatsapp' came out and people mentioned that it didn't have a web interface. I won't use anything that I can't type into when I'm at a computer - pulling out my phone and t-y-p-i-n-g out a message is just a non-starter.
> I don't understand how other officers could ever defend colleagues who do this type of activity.

Crucial point. Whenever a police officer is caught doing something wrong, the "few bad apples" argument is made. Here we had several officers, including a supervisor, colluding to invent charges against someone as casually as they might order their coffee and donuts in the morning. This indicates a problem that is much broader and fundamental than a few bad apples. And from the perspective of the average citizen, unfortunately it means that police do not deserve the automatic benefit of the doubt which they claim a right to.
My worry about fraud isn't about the mothers, it's about the politicians and suppliers who would run this program. Too many pockets getting in the way.
One concern I have here, is that people are going to perceive this post as "this is what you should do and it's easy!", because the post doesn't really address the complexities of implementing this kind of thing.

As a result, we're probably going to have a bunch more issues like this one: http://blog.ircmaxell.com/2015/03/security-issue-combining-b...

I'm not looking forward to having to talk people off that particular ledge for the next several months...
Er, my laptop actually has a 1TB SSD. Am I missing something?
Sorry what does "it's a wash" mean here?

We have on the one hand a known bad thing, cigarettes contain all sorts of nasties, tars, combustion products etc etc

On the other we have propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin, nicotine and food flavours that get vapourised (not burned). These have no proven links to cancer, PG and VG are already used in food and in medicines, some for inhalation. Also stage-smoke. There's no reason to think they are anywhere near as hazardous as smoking, though we haven't got good long-term data yet.

Regulation of ingredients would be good, but smoking cigarettes and vaping is very far apart in expected health outcomes.
Apt is the second worst linux package manager. RPM is the first worst.
> Some implementations of bcrypt truncate the input to 72 bytes, which reduces the entropy of the passwords. Other implementations don’t truncate the input and are therefore vulnerable to DoS attacks because they allow the input of arbitrarily long passwords.

Huh? BCrypt works by stuffing the password into a 72 byte Blowfish key and using it to recursively encrypt a 24 byte payload. Either it's truncating, or it's pre-hashing the password to fit much like they are.

The link they use to justify it is funny: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/long-passwords-are-g...

That's just a naive PBKDF2 implementation that's pointlessly reinitializing the HMAC context each iteration instead of just doing it once at the start. The difference between storing a 1 byte and a 1MB password with PBKDF2 should be on the order of a couple of milliseconds.
You say inspiration, I say rewrite.
What's the problem with `H(salt||H(pepper||password))`? If `H` is a good PRF, it should work fine (you want `KDF(salt, H(pepper||password))` to protect against guessing attacks).

In any case, if you pepper is exposed and you don't have a good pepper rotation scheme, you are no worse than if you started with no pepper at all.
2nd that - I've also "heard" coffee is a magnesium-flusher, and heavy coffee drinkers should replenish magnesium.
I remember looking at the markup of starcon.net.kp "Best Korea's Social Network" and it was based on https://phpdolphin.com/
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I use notebooks like this commenter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12549098

Now, I've also researched this for a while. My latest approach was to develop a git-like command line application (named nica) that allowed me to keep notes, track issues, and pretty much manage the project. It works by creating a hidden directory (like git) and the data is stored in JSON files (because I planned on doing web interface. The aim is to include everything related to the project inside the git repo. So you would not need to use a web interface to know the issues of a particular code base. You could do:

nica issues

and it would print out a list of open issues. Then you'd do:

nica issue -n 100

and it would open issue #100.

I built it to understand how to move away from commercial services like github while giving devs a way to host their project data online. There is a web server being developed that would provide the ability to pull/push nica data and a web interface. The only problem I had was with conflicts due to how the data was inside the git repo. But I have not spent any time solving it.

Note that I slowed down development because I'm working on another project (V2V, V2I, and V2S communication for automated cars). It is not a commercial or open source project (pure research). Its being written with python and click (library for command line apps by the team behind flask).
For most of these people it's a decision between OS X on MBP vs Linux on a non-Apple laptop.
In this context, baby is sometimes used as a proper noun to indicate a singular, specific baby. It sounds more personal than 'that baby', and has been in fairly common use for as long as I can remember in both Canada and the US (at least here on the west coast).

Oh, and you may in fact here the phrases 'sister doesn't know' or 'boss doesn't know' in some circumstances, although in those instances it would be more of a slang/affectation/colloquialism and not as common as 'baby'.
I used it to store user-uploaded images in a photo contest website years ago. It was a happy medium between storing images directly on the filesystem or as a blob/binary in a relational database. The image requests were AJAX, so I could include the clients screen dimension in the request. My app would resize on the fly if necessary, store resized image to CouchDB, and redirect the image request to CouchDB, which was publicly readable.

Another good use case I had was for JSONP request for an auto-complete input field on a webpage. Again, the database was publicly readable.

I have also used it to aggregate data for graphs. The data changed daily, so the ability to cache the results of a view until the data changed was nice. But the first request of data each day still took a while. I don't think I got a performance boost in this case, but I did get free caching.

All my other uses of CouchDB were mostly for fun and could've been implemented in traditional SQL.
> it turns out mobile is a better platform for >50% of tasks

For the tasks we do >50% of the time, maybe. But no way it's better for >50% of the tasks.
what? S02 takes the whole thing to another level...
The Photos upgrade for "moments" is quite nice, assuming you use Photos to store your photos.

The storage upgrade where they can remove forgotten debris files and then migrate your unused files to the cloud is great for most people.

I realize most HN readers have already drawn their saber and are 2/3rds over the gunwale at my suggestion that a computer make a decision about the disposition of a file, but this one feature is going to reduce my "friends and family tech support debt" by about 75%. A couple of clicks and I can fix their full computer. In the process of that I have quietly gotten them to backup their documents to the cloud so when I get the "my computer won't turn on" call I don't have to spend hours extracting and recovering their hard drive because they NEVER backup. Thanks to "apps", I can finally convince people that paying $1.99/mo for cloud storage isn't some evil plan to loot the world economy. People are used to small payments for computer services.
You responded way to fast to have actually googled that, brw. There is no way you fully considered what I put forth.
Fair enough. I don't do a lot of event dispatching (well, bubbling), so I haven't found it a clear win for my use case, but it's only 10k more than jQuery (gzipped), so I can see that it would be good for a lot of them. As I move to something more componentized instead of the goulash I have now, I suspect that this will change.
My wife and I watched POI and as the show progressed the plot ideas got better but the acting and dialogue took a nose dive.

At times the show with its dialogue became very CSI, NCSI, aka other CBS cop crime crap. Reese and Ebbg's (Rot 13 name per spoiler avoidance request) one liners became fairly irritating.

It also didn't help: <rot13> gurl ryvzvangrq bar bs gur orggre npgbef naq punenpgref va gur fubj (Pnegre... V'z nyy nobhg xvyyvat znwbe punenpgref ohg gurl unq orggre bcgvbaf) </rot13> (spoiler avoidance).
Kind of a stupid statistic, how much people have in their savings account. With interest rates so low, a savings account is basically worthless. The more interesting question is how much they have saved in total, across all accounts and investments.
I use brew leaves instead of brew list for this sort of thing; as I usually don't care about the constituent transitive dependencies, only the final results.
Even hex-encoding for 288 bits of entropy is plenty good enough.
We have some cheeky humor here every now and then and my personal opinion is that it's completely fine, but it's usually made in tandem with a serious reply :)
The update is free?
> That said, I think we're in agreement that this is wrong

It's wrong, and a prosecutable offense, if you or I invent a story that leads to charges against someone. It's insanely wrong if police officers do the same.
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I don't get your sarcasm. It's free, what is there to buy?! I have been using it for roughly 12 hours and, as I said, it's kind of underwhelming in terms of new features. It's not "bad" in any way, it just doesn't feel fresh or more powerful unless you are longing for iOS features on a desktop OS.
My iPhone I would crash when writing long emails in Japanese and took shitty pictures, my iPhone 6 writes emails in all languages and takes great pictures.

I would choose an iPhone 6 over any Jobs era phone.
Will this evolve into a complete substitute for small talk? Will we some day have text algorithms exchanging pleasantries with our friends text algorithms each day? Hi John, how are you today? Wonderful! are you enjoying the 79 F sunny day? Why yes, Terry, I am!

Once you automate (insincerity? phoniness?) does it go away?
The same can be said for aluminum, but still Apple is known for doing some of the best work in the world with the material.
Personally, I love being reminded that I'm not progressive and I haven't escaped the same old silliness of 1600 or 1500.
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I think "embeddable" means at least "I have an arbitrary Charles Petzold-style Win32 app and I want to put KHTML in it without adopting my whole app to a framework". KParts was never really designed for this.
At my workplace, we route video and audio over Cat5 to specialized PCs with capture cards, running software that records and then streams or uploads to a video content server where people can log into an account and view a list of presentations on a content management application.

They still email to ask if I can tape their upcoming event.
How much they have in a savings account? Who has a savings account? I have $5 in my savings account because my credit union makes me. It has around a 0.025% interest rate so I would be stupid to put any more money into it.
Maybe it's just because I haven't seen it in several years. I'll watch it again this weekend :)
It'd be pretty hard to get the new identity without revealing that you are in fact changing from identity X to identity Y. Because if that tidbit gets out, an algorithm can easily reassociate all the data of identity X with identity Y.
> if the flag is google-service-specific

Its only "Google service" in that Google runs an AMP cache service the same as anyone else could; its open source project with open governance that manages its own open spec.
That is because the problem is the ideology of Capitalism working within a consumer market economy.
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Why are broken window policing and drug policies a thing? Why does "tough on crime" further DAs' political ambitions? Because that's what ordinary people demand.

I grew up in the 1990s. When kids would be called to assembly on a regular basis and teachers would shriek at them "just say no!" Drugs and were destroying our children, in their opinion, and no measures were too extreme to stop that. Those same people voted for mandatory minimums, three strikes laws', elimination of parole, etc. California's unjust three strikes law, which imposed life sentences for a third non-violent felony, was a ballot initiative. Trump and Romney didn't give us the justice system we have. My third-grade teacher did.
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> Gordon Murray designs some pretty atypical vehicles

You don't say! One thing is for sure: he really, really, really loves the idea of a central driving position. All the cars you mentioned have the driver sit smack bang in the middle.
You need to watch the condescendence here, Fight Club is a well known movie and I've watched it, so have a lot of people who, like me, appreciate Mr Robot and a lot of them, like me, appreciate Fight Club.

Of course I can see the parallels. But, like I said, watching the two shows is a completely different experience. I work in the games industry, I'm quite familiar with what a "rip-off" looks like. Mr Robot is not a rip-off. Inspiration is not a rip-off.
That and the fact that there exists almost nothing in terms of a safety net. If you're not in tip top health and independently wealthy already, entrepreneurship is, by design, an all-or-nothing gamble.
This is making me want a sodastream.
Right on, and if you include account fees, it's equivalent to disturbingly high negative interest.
Uh aren't lazy people too lazy to be offended. Converting lazy people to not lazy people seems like the real problem.
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Which might be sensible. As OP has suggested, the state may be better than the market at this.
In all fairness, the old WhatsApp did not have end to end encryption. And the partnership with Open Whisper Systems for implementing that has been announced after the acquisition announcement. It was probably planned in advanced, but it was developed and deployed during Facebook's ownership.

And I know that the old WhatsApp was promising privacy and a no ads business model, but you can't really promise privacy while unencrypted chat messages are flowing through your servers.

That said, Facebook can still violate people's privacy just by having access to the metadata and I hope such lawsuit will revert this decision, at least in the EU.
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I just have a folder of text files for each project. Even if it's trying out a git project, I'll record the setup process and TODO list as I go in case I need to re-setup the project from scratch at a later time. To maintain a decent SNR and keep my active projects grouped together, I'll have an archived folder and place a project in there when I'm no longer actively working on it.
Yeah, my interpretation is that people are not storing their wealth in dollars, which is a bad sign for the currency.
1) That was on purpose

2) The vast vast majority of twists have been predicted far in advance if they are of any significance. And frankly the ones that people missed the missed clues are dug up after the fact to show what people missed. Having problems with Mr Robot is fine, but claiming LAZY writing is lazy analysis.

3) in the short term the pacing felt weird, but as things have been revealed everything has started to fit together and see WHY it is paced the way it is.

4) This is entirely incorrect. He started writing a movie, but when he was 90 pages in (1 page = 1 minute of screentime) before he hit the end of act 1 (which was the first season of the show) he changed his intention and plotted it as a TV show after that.

5) this if fair, the characters are wildly naive.

6) Eh this can be argued both ways so can't really disagree

7) I've seen at least some people who struggle with similar issues who are impressed with how accurate Elliot seems. Others may not feel that way, but like anything else relating to people how different people experience different things means no one person can represent an entire thing.

8) She hasn't been unstoppable, though she is the most daunting character in the show other than possibly Joanna.

9) This is totally fair. He's a psychopath as was shown by his whole talk on wanting to be the most powerful person in the room.

10) What? People have CONSITANTLY been right on subreddit. Obviously bad theories are also going to show up, but the accurate ones regularly bubble to the top.
The 'migrate to the cloud' is no good for backups -- it doesn't put files in the cloud which you actually use regularly!
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It made me think of the William Gibson short story "Johnny Mnemonic" (the original story, not the almost-unrecognizable movie version).
Trello and writing a line are great; I have one extra comment about the line.

Instead of just "not finishing" something, I will do a minor brain dump of what I'm trying to accomplish into a comment or a Trello item in the details field.

Usually when I'm stopping it's because there's a thing that isn't easy to finish, and I've done a lot of thinking about how to finish, but don't have the time to do it. So I write down all of my thoughts on the topic -- sometimes it can run to several paragraphs and sometimes a table or two.

But the next time I pick it back up, I can totally get back into the right mental space quickly. The best part? After a break, even if I have a plan outlined in the comment, I often can immediately see a better solution than the one I was working toward.

On a related point I've been keeping a journal with similar notes in it; I've found this to be extremely helpful for thinking through problems. You've heard of explaining your problem to a rubber duck? Having to not only put the problem into words, but writing those words down, is a great way to get the brain churning -- and a great way to leave a map for yourself later to get back into a project.
Could you edit out the name of that character, seeing as this is a watch recommendation?

Edit: Thank you :)
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In fact, these days some checking accounts pay more interest than a savings account. And even if they don't, not much point in keeping a separate savings account if it doesn't pay any better than a checking account. (Other than for organizational reasons.)

That said, despite the savings-account-specific question, I suspect the statistics would look quite similar if you made the question less account-type-specific and just asked how much money people had saved away.