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>My hunch is the loss of valuing community and family in US culture. With no reason/motivation to work, no one depending on them, men just drop out.

I think there's a lot to this. Notice also that the divorce rate is high, and worse, the rate of people staying single is rising a lot too: many people just aren't bothering to get married any more. I'm back in the dating pool, and I'm finding a LOT of urban women these days who are in their 30s and even 40s and never got married, and after trying to date some of them it's my opinion that for most of them, they're college-educated and their professions and girlfriends have kept them busy all this time (plus lots of foreign travel it seems), and they just don't feel like they need a relationship, and I'm guessing when they get horny they just go to a neighborhood bar and pick up someone. Anyway, after dating some of them it seems to me they're all stuck holding out for Mr. Perfect, and want someone who looks and dresses like a GQ model, can run a marathon, drives a BMW, and lives right across the street from them downtown. It's so bad that many of these women are finally realizing they want to experience motherhood and are getting IVF to do it, without bothering to have a husband first. I met one woman on Tinder who was a little over 40, and told me in the very first phone conversation how she had already tried one round of IVF! WTF?

Notice also that women are going to college much more than men now (60% vs 40%), and women with any brains at all are going to college and moving into the cities. Men who aren't college educated don't do the same, so now we're having parts of the country with severe imbalances between single men and women. There's a ridiculous number of single women in NYC, for instance.
I don't think that qUnit, jquery*, or requirejs should be in the list of the tools we should be standardizing on today. Beyond that grunt and dojo are arguable. This looks like a list of mostly last-gen tools combined with a few tools that have kept up or still serve a purpose.

In the end, I just don't think it's a great list... webpack, moment, lodash, sure... but jQuery UI, really? I mean bootstrap is a bit long in the tooth today, but still very modern in terms of structure. lodash is setup in a way that you can pick only the parts you need/want... but a lot of these tools just aren't what you probably want to be using starting a project today.
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I use Hopper[1] for that. It has been accurate so far.

[1]https://www.hopper.com/
I've searched with Google Flights a few times, but they are consistently more expensive than the flights I find with other services (Hipmunk, specifically). Has anyone else noticed this before, too?

Does anyone know why the prices would be that much different? For the searches I've done, Google Flights is close to $150 more than what Hipmunk shows. Does Hipmunk maybe just have some sort of promo or lower price that Google Flights can't offer?

EDIT: This curiosity also relates to what "karakal" is asking in their comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12736433 - Like is this data just universal or do some services get better deals than others?
PRWeb is an unfiltered wire service, anyone can put any old bullshit on there. That article links to googlecaches rather than a reputable source. I'd be careful of libelling people if I were you.
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You are likely to find .c and .h files, but for UNIX, that is also just another stream of bytes - it cares not that the stream of bytes happens to be in the ASCII, 7-bit range.

Where are you going with that?
Bullying implies a power relationship where Thiel is weak, and strong people are ganging up on him. But Thiel is a powerful man.

This is just debate. Huge, internet-clogging amounts of debate.
Using the devices as planes for the golf demo is incredibly creative!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE0gxa-p8HY

I know you can use HTML5 DeviceOrientation for angle and the "swip" for relative positioning. But how did you get the physical size of the screen of each device?
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"I see this as less of a threat because frankly most of those people are simply old, and they are dying off rapidly."

You are also out of touch with reality like Altman admitted about liberals not understanding almost half of America. He was right that they've totally ignored their motivations. The Trump supporters are mostly Republicans and people in rural areas. These people have kids, raise them to mostly have similar beliefs, watch similar media that's pro-Right, and often vote for same people. Trump supporters in Mid-South are across all ages with more older ones but plenty in 20's-30's. Almost all the rural people I've asked are pro-Trump because they'd never vote for Democrats but especially not Hillary. They think Trump is more likely to deal with things they care about than a "snobby city-dweller" who doesn't care about them at all.

This will take a long time to die off thanks to the effects of isolation and close-knit communities on new generations. It's not going away in 4 years. Best thing to do is get some Republican candidates in that tap into that who aren't as dangerous as Trump for next election.
Secret law is no law at all. Law is a contract between a people and the government. Contracts where only one party has any knowledge are by definition not contracts. Instead, this body of secret law operates completely outside of public oversight, and generally grants the government powers that public, bonafide law would ban or tightly restrict. Secret law is _always_ a violation of the social contract, and we must reject it and punish actors in government who justify it, no matter the specious ends they pursue.
The humanitarian with the guillotine...
Its great that google is open sourcing this, however, its a bit curious as anyone who is going to be operating a registry really has the resources and expertise to manage this kind of thing (both hw and sw). Unless the end game is to get big resource users (like registries) onto GCE, its a bit odd.
I agree. You'd have fast-loading pages - but you can get that by just writing decent HTML. What you likely won't get is Google's preferred handling in search results.

The one upside I see is that Google-moderated AMP pages might push ad networks and library developers to develop less bloaty solutions to stay compliant. Those solutions might make it easier to develop regular non-bloaty pages as well.
People criticizing YC over this either actually believe, or are affecting to believe, that it's perfectly reasonable for them to drag others into their black and white worldview, in which apparently this season you're only allowed to align yourself with Democrats.
Putin's Warning Against Electing Hillary Clinton:

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* Mozilla * Google * Microsoft * Adobe *Facebook

DID work together to try to help standardize the web platform [1] a few years ago.

Unfortunately, it failed, mostly because of politics.

[1] http://WebPlatform.Com
I think you're right. Ideal gas law wouldn't apply to the plasma sphere but knowing shockwave strength at some distance you can figure out how much energy was transferred to the atmosphere.
There is no code reuse of small non-generic functions in practice, just duplication and thus ravioli code. And to make these small functions generic costs time.

What may make sense is to make something similar to lemma in proofs. This is strictly for ease of debugging or readability.
Looking for a little affirmative action? ;)
Is anyone else troubled by how impulsive[0] we are? Look at the original thread on this issue[1]. Hundreds of comments and conspiracy theories. And this is on HN...

I am troubled by how the internet has enabled us to gossip on a global scale.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12725427

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12737178 - someone pointed out I actually did not know the meaning of the word "reactionary", which was my original word choice.
Seems like it. Just an hour or so after the "Assange's internet was cut" tweet, they tweeted for donations even though people were asking for updates: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787915227924992000
It's only a story if you have nothing to do with politics at all. Pandering to constituencies is all part of the game, and looking at them like any other marketing exercise comes with it.

Republicans do the exact same thing. The core "food groups" are evangelical christians, corporate types, gun people, defense industry people, small business people. All of these groups drive voter turnout. There are also "borderline" groups that flirt with both parties as their interests collide. This includes some labor unions (especially where their interests overlap others, like defense), regionally important ethnic/religious affiliated groups (catholics, orthodox jewish communities, cubans, etc) and others. This scales down to the local elections. If you want to be the mayor in a small town, you target the firefighter union + key ministers + senior centers.

Make no mistake, this dynamic has always been there.
While I think your situation is unique, it would be nice if there was an out-of-the-box ML system that could be trained by individuals for any specific use case (such as transcribing letters).

In the future, I think this might be the case where you "teach" a computer or program to recognize and do tasks the same way you would a child or pet.

PS- Transcribing letters brings to mind an app on the iPhone that I used to use for instant language translation. Can't quite remember what it was called but Google ended up acquiring them for their OCR technology.
This is really cool, and I'm not complaining or feature creeping at all, but what about the sound of the forrest?
This is strictly for operating a registry (ie deploying the infrastructure for your own TLD), getting a TLD granted is through ICANN.
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> The one drawback is sometimes they are missing local / smaller airlines from their list of flights (which can be a major price difference from the major ones) on short flights.

Not to mention they're missing Southwest, but that's Southwest's fault -- they seem to have some sort of policy against allowing any third parties to list their flights. In addition to being really annoying since I have to make two searches rather than one every time I want to book a domestic flight due to a lone holdout, it also makes zero sense to me. How could not having all that free advertising from flight search engines possibly be a good thing for Southwest? I care enough to go to the trouble of searching in two places, but I doubt most people do.
Yes. This is correct. Please look carefully at where and from whom you see that attitude - there is an obvious pattern.
Can ignorance of a secret law be used as a defense?
The stripping of freedom, interaction with the rest of society, the effects on the imprisoned individual's family and their finances are the same.

Would you dare say that if the USA droned an innocent person based on signature data in Afghanistan his death would be of a higher quality than the Talib killing him?

If you do not want to make such comparisons then answer one question: Which country's actions in recent history ( <30 years ) were more beneficial to improving trade, alleviation of poverty and development of poor countries across the world - the USA or China?
This article confuses the strategy for the newspaper industry as a whole with the strategy for any particular newspaper. If zero newspapers were online, then the first paper to go online would have a huge advantage. Every newspaper staying offline is not a Nash equilibrium, unless there's some compact to enforce it (which might violate antitrust laws).
Emailing you now, thanks.
Ah yes, that escaped me. In that context the statement is acceptable. Thanks for clarifying that.
It is worth noting that this kind of chat is fundamentally vulnerable to MitM attack: anyone can just open two chat windows and copy all messages from one to the other and vice versa, even by hands or using browser automation.
The point is that both are low, I would accept the second metric and I don't think it shows what you seen to claim it does. If you take all the applications submitted, income would be positively correlated with acceptance even though it is "needs blind". Some of that is implicit, but some of it is likely explicit (admit kids who played polo over kids who worked at McDonald's if everything else is equal)
The state department probably asks ecuador to turn over assange every single time they talk to someone in ecuador.
I didn't click on this specific link but I have frequented this sub out of curiosity. As others have mentioned, there are decent comments from some but it is too painful for me to wade through the rest. It really isn't a great place to converse about the subject because there is really only one acceptable view point. This is all a bit of a generalization but sums up my experience there. While it is hard to completely eliminate bias in any forum/publication, the_donald doesn't even attempt to try. That is ok. It is their safe place to talk about their God King. It just isn't very valuable to those looking for good information.
That's exciting, sounds similar to the git fusion stuff Perforce is doing.

I'd be happy to see a bit more diversity in source control. Git is great but falls over in more than a few scenarios(unmergeable large binary files come to mind).
Quite a few are only overridable in about:config, like: (if I recall correctly)

* DH short exchange keys
* NTLM1 passwords
I haven't had any problem with `require('moment')` doesn't leak into my global scope. jQuery is a different story, given how plugins tend to work.
Any phone that doesn't support the eco-systems of iOS, Android or Windows is going to die, unless it offers some killer feature that manages to have enough sales to keep the company afloat.
I will say it's important to understand how the Salt we return is generated.

Not in the slightest. It is the HASH of a HASH of a HASH. There is no academic rigor to support this gives you any additional security. And a lot of academic rigor that states it is a moot operation.

The Salt1 is still private on the site's server, and no passwords can be cracked without it.

1) If you argue any SALT is private... Then WHY EVEN USE SALTS?!?! If something on the database is private/secure why not use clear text passwords? The whole idea of using SALT+HMAC is that NOTHING stored is private/secure. You cannot EVER assume SALT(s) are private.

2) Cracking the password is irrelevant. All that is needed is:

SALT2 + Web transferred hash

Then the credentials are gained. Yes learning somebody's password, or several million's peoples password is a fun experiment but gaining access to the website is also an attack vector, one your system is making easier.

For a traditional HMAC/Scrypt/Bcrypt recovering the password is a critical part of this as the authentication mechanism is a single black box program. Input is SALT+Password+Hash. Output is an auth token.

The system you describes breaks this dichotomy. No longer must the password be broken to gain access.

:.:.:

Availability is a legitimate concern

An extreme one

Similar to SMS multifactor

SMS Multi-factor is depreciated. Faking SMS from an arbitrary phone number is extremely trivial in practice. Look into Dave Kennedy's work on social engineering.

Multi-Factor auth is best done via Tokens or TOTP.

We direct peer to many of our customers and route over private IP space to avoid a potential DDoS.

So instead you want to just install your own box on the customers network? This opens up even more headaches about managing and authenticating your access to their private LAN. Then you get into patching agreements, possible OS limitations, security audits. This is a horrible solution for both parties.
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You probably want to follow ESR [0] then. A new version is released for every seventh Firefox version, IIRC, and those are supported (i.e. receive security fixes) for a year.

[0]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
I will defer to your knowledge of YC's corporate legal structure on that point, but I'd note that the rest appears to be left untouched at present.
While building snark proofs is very memory intensive in itself, it is far from optimization free, which is one of the primary requirements for a PoW...
Well, this would at least be a way to recoup the costs of not releasing the carbon emmissions in the first place.
Also odd considering Trump spent the entire nomination campaign shilling his deal making abilities, and how he would lead by consensus instead of executive orders.

I don't see how YC denying Peter Thiel is anything more than political theatre it has no bearing on whether Trump will win or not.

All these distractions when the US has two states CT and IL in near bankruptcy due to pensions being 200%+ over state revenues, and a frightening national debt meaning Feds will likely not be able to bail them out. Wish everybody could panic over that not Thiel being involved with YC.
I know he has his agendas, possibly I should have used "his self proclaimed philosophy" instead.
Did you link to the wrong proclamation? There are no countries even specified there. It's basically a proclamation that we won't allow in people who committed war crimes.

And there's nothing legally wrong about blocking immigration from a certain country or countries. We could block immigration from Italy and Poland and it wouldn't be unconstitutional despite the fact that they are predominantly Catholic. The religious test itself is what's unconstitutional.
First, it is important to note that they are not criticizing material recycling as only capturing 5% of the value, but rather, the economy, i.e. linear vs circular.

I think you are missing the point that an historical, linear, consumptive model leaves behind 95% of the value.

A circular model seeks to capture as much of that value as possible, ideally 100%.

"The current economy is surprisingly wasteful in its model of value creation. In Europe, material recycling and waste-based energy recovery captures only 5 percent of the original raw material value.[2]"

"[2] This material value retention ratio is defined as the estimated material and energy output of the European waste management and recycling sector, divided by the output of the raw material sector (adjusted for net primary resource imports and 30 percent embedded resource value in net imported products)."

One key point of their analysis is that it includes waste management where material may be buried in a landfill. This highlights the inefficiency of the linear economy. Private companies are paid a fee to bury value.

The global recycling industry for materials is extremely competitive. Private companies are fighting tooth and nail for our gold.

Water bottles are a great, obvious example of extremely profitable recycling. Water bottles can be recycled easily and turned in to more water bottles, t-shirts, car parts, and on and on.

A less obvious, more complicated example is used carpeting. For decades, old discarded carpet has accumulated in landfills. In the linear, consumptive model, landfills were paid to bury the material and its value. It has become such a problem that governments[1] as well as industry trade organization[2] have pledged to tackle the problem. It's complicated because it is multiple materials that can't simply be ground up and remelted. A significant percentage of carpet is nylon, which is very valuable. Today, used carpet is turned in to resin[3], which ultimately becomes furniture, car parts and other useful products.

[1] http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Carpet/Program.htm
[2] https://carpetrecovery.org/
[3] http://www.econyl.com/

I noticed this in another response, "My original argument: If recycling were more efficient, it would be privately profitable, and a competitive recycling market would develop."

Recycling is very efficient and becoming more so. Incredibly profitable private enterprises that are solely recycling companies operate in a competitive global market.

The circular economy is the next evolution of these markets.
I read each of the emails linked in the top of the post (I didn't read through the comments) spoiledtechie posted, and honestly I just don't see a lot there. There's a lot of ugly sausage-making type stuff, but nothing from there jumps out to me as something I'm bothered by mainstream media not reporting. The problem with trying to use /r/the_donald to follow the dump is that so much of what's posted is crap, that it doesn't really add much value over wading through the whole archive myself.

Incidentally Fox News currently has a story on an email from the Politco reporter to Podesta from one of the previous dumps on their front page right now. It's moderately interesting, but it's not some ground breaking accusation. What do you feel like is the single biggest revelation from the dumps that main stream media is ignoring?
> Not really sure why we are encrypting video streams from Youtube. Is a cat video something that we need to make more secure?

Yes, for several reasons. Multiple ISPs have purposefully messed with YouTube and other video traffic, and YouTube reported that after they switched to HTTPS, many of their video reliability issues simply went away.

Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Cannon ; it's not safe to load any content over insecure HTTP.
> a knife, an axe, six oversized horseshoes, and 61 nails

It looks like, based on the photo, that the horseshoes take 10 nails each, so that could why they are accompanied by 60 nails.

So why 61? A spare?
I think the consensus is that tweet is sent out on a regular schedule.. it just had really unfortunate timing given the events.
The middle ground to this sounds like a skip-list, but I haven't seen that implemented inside a SQL system. Maybe a trigger on inserts to the count row to randomly insert the skip list count. Problem would be, this would essentially require ordering and a transaction, so maybe could be calculated offline in an async way in some way.
This isn't a very interesting criticism. If WikiLeaks says an anonymous source told them something that is a.) completely believable and b.) isn't what a onymous source would be able to say, I see no reason to doubt them. I don't have an extraordinarily high confidence in a claim based on an anonymous witness alone, but journalists (lets squint hard enough to still call Assange a journalist for a moment) do this all the time.

Do you have other evidence to bring to the table? Do you have reason to doubt a.) or b.)?
The problem is that when there's an adversary in the picture (when there isn't, you may as well not encrypt at all), your computer isn't doing what you tell it to. TLS doesn't work if you don't enforce authentication.

When people visit TLS URLs, they're asking the browser to establish a TLS connection. When attackers make that impossible, it's the job of the browser to refuse, on the user's behalf, to downgrade to an insecure connection.
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Perhaps the United States has secret law because it's one of a very small set of jurisdictions (read: pretty much only) that subjects the most classified actions to a comprehensive and deeply integrated legal framework. For some interesting reading, check out Intelligence Oversight, a toolkit, by the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces[1]

[1] http://www.dcaf.ch/Publications/Overseeing-Intelligence-Serv...
> Is a cat video something that we need to make more secure?

This is about solidarity by increasing the background noise. If only those people who really need it would use encrytion, they were easy to detect and to suppress.

So, please show solidarity with the weak people in our and other societies by encrypting as much non-sensitive stuff as possible.