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> So of Krebs' top nine sources of leaks, Final addresses at most three. No thanks!

I mean, sure, but three is still better the status quo.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12733498
If PV wanted their stuff taken seriously at this point, they would always offer full videos for actual journalists to review and edit. They could license the content and amplify the impact of their work. Instead, they do a hack job to fit their purpose.
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I think this is the reason (from their site):

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This is on our ballot because the last two gubernatorial elections included a third party that pulled Democratic votes leading to Paul LePage becoming governor once with 38.1% oft he vote and the second time with 48.2% of the vote.

The second time wasn't too bad, but 38%?! Would have been nice to see the second pick for the folks who didn't pick the independent in the first election. Pretty sure the Dems would have carried the election with a serious majority.

Now Maine is a bit of a national embarrassment with a governor who can't go a single month without insulting someone or criticizing others for playing politics in ... wait for it ... politics.
Yeah, if you want to buy the genuine article it sucks that you end up with a knock-off. It's very hard to tell the difference on Amazon where the photo on the product page isn't guaranteed to match the product you will receive. Happens with a lot more than just cables and chargers. I've even seen it with things like kitchen tools.

But that's distracting from the real problem. That problem being that even genuine Apple cables are overpriced and shitty. If Apple provided quality durable cables of various lengths at reasonable prices, nobody would buy buying them from Amazon instead of from Apple. Every time someone goes to Amazon to buy a cable, it's because their Apple one disintegrated.

As for chargers, the Apple ones are just fine, but they only charge one device at a time. There are plenty of small, inexpensive, and high quality charging devices available that can charge 5x or even 10x devices at once. The third party products are just better.
What, like TalkTalk? Or the police for that matter, who routinely lose sensitive information.

I agree, as long as fines are lower than the CEOs salary + bonuses, these "fines" remain laughable. But based on these other cases, it's unlikely that the ICO would or could do anything to severely impact how a bank operates, which makes them toothless.

As for telling the ICO, well the deputy director of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC, part of GCHQ) explicitly said he won't tell ICO if people report breaches to him... so I wouldn't cross my fingers.
I am a physician with training in neuroscience. There is no scientific consensus that stimulants help the problems you are talking about. There is some preliminary evidence that stimulants may make some problems worse (graduation rates).
My apologies. I had attribution license before but changed it to CC0 later and then forgot to take out the don't sell phrase. Should be all set now.
They get cast into void.
Also, maybe they don't want to dive right in. Can you take the lead on the open source project for a small component and run that the way you want to for 3 months to show them how it could work? Maybe let each team naturally adopt the open source style if they want to, until a critical mass is hit?
The new middleware "firewall" in under development.
My Citi card gives me 2% cash back on everything. It's a 1 button operation.
Yes, of course we are inaccurate decision makers.

Although there's so many factors and chance that influence the results of every decision and you can only have so much information and perspective, so you can only do the best you can.

The map is not the territory. We work with models of how the world works when deciding things, not the actual world, so it's bound to not be 100% accurate.

Computers do the same, although they can crunch a lot more data than we can, they still work with models of the world, not the world itself.
> issue ID's for free

This really is the crux of the issue, and I think it's a great idea. Prevent fraud, make everyone's life easier at the same time.
The underrated introduction to machine intelligence
That's the argument for racial profiling. Not making any argument for or against, just pointing out something interesting. I didn't think about the topic in this context before, as to whether or not it's rational. It's always only been a question of ethics to me. So the natural follow-up question: are various ethics irrational? Again, only a theoretical exercise, not putting my personal views into this.
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I usually use a burn-after reading paste in 0bin.net for that, but I like the idea of sending an email. Altough it could be use for spam don't you think ?
Regarding (3): There's no direct connection in the Constitution between the word "reasonable" and the word "warrant". "Warrant" is there to to limit the scope of the kinds of warrants that can be generated --- to prevent the "general warrant". "Reasonable" is there to make sure all searches, with or without a warrant, must survive a "reasonableness" test --- they must be related to some legitimate goal of government. If you attempt to design a legal system off the idea that all searches require warrants, you wind up in crazytown: for instance, the police, apprehending a mugger they have just observed holding up a couple at gunpoint, cannot reasonably search the criminal.

Regarding (5): The framers in fact rejected a previous iteration of the language of the 10th Amendment that would have reserved to the states any powers not expressly delegated in the Constitution. So we know that's not what they meant.
Has the Trump Train Finally Derailed for Good
It doesn't take the same amount of time everywhere though. It took me almost an hour last time I did it because the trip was 10 minutes each way plus waiting plus the actual procedure. That's in Switzerland, and if it were this efficient in the US, it would be a bad excuse.

However, with all the bullshit requirements (often introduced specifically to make it harder for people to get ID), overworked agencies and much greater distances involved in the US, the same process easily takes multiple hours - in a good case!
Taking a day off is seriously not possible for many people in the US.

And voter ID in principle isn't racist. In practice, though, it is:
"With race data in hand, the legislature amended the bill to exclude many of the alternative photo IDs used by African Americans." and
"The bill retained only the kinds of IDs that white North Carolinians were more likely to possess."
are direct quotes from a federal court striking down voter ID laws in North Carolina.
That's intentional and that's why voter ID is treated as a racist idea.
Wait, but is that related to the proposal? Not my native language and all, but I thought this is basically age-gating .. porn sites.

If you have a random app (unrelated, not a porn site) showing ads (unrelated unless a porn site) of alcohol services (not sure what that is, but .. unrelated/not porn), how does this apply?

How would you age-gate ads? Wouldn't that require a new X-KID-PRESENT: 1 http header so that each and every ad network can suppress ~questionable~ content? In fact: That's a great thought experiment: Is a site that serves ads that might contain 'adult' ads at times a porn site according to the British government and would need to verify that the visitor is of age?
I use pgp daily with my email. I value it. It's good software.

But let's be honest, SSL and pgp are the best we can do to secure comms from http to smtp today?

Key/cert management is an epic fail from a usability pov. Is it done? Yes, because there is NO other choice. But pgp will never ever be anything but a niche application for the paranoid.

SSL? I don't think anyone is going to argue it doesn't need to be scrapped and rewritten from scratch or replaced entirely.

Encryption must be transparent for it to be ubiquitous. We're not there yet. I know this is a hard problem to solve but someone eventually will.
This is a great idea but I often have this problem the other way around.

I regularly want to send encrypted data to companies that don't know how to decrypt it. The number of firms that ask for sensitive info to be emailed across (or not much better - use dropbox) is crazy.

Anyone got any good solutions to this?
Btw: Citi Double offers virtual numbers too but its a bit hidden on the website and requires flash.
"Oh really? Do you know the definition of a democracy? A democracy is simply a form of government that gives power to the people."

The candidates are self-selected based on how much money they have plus connection with corrupt parties who operate on bribes from corporations, special interest groups, and rich people. The people get information on these candidates from highly-biased media that lie about other candidates to drum up ratings for advertising revenue while also run by people in capitalist class. Territories, phrasing of questions on ballet, and voter rights are used to filter a chunk of votes that may threaten status quo. They votes are often entered into machines that are easy to hack with consistent refusal to eliminate that risk. These votes determine which "electors," not Presidents, are decided. These electoral candidates were already chosen by prior, political parties. Depending on state law, those electors will then vote for candidate people voted for or vote against people's choice.

This total process is what many Americans call an election system where the "people" decide who runs the country. They're participating in a mass delusion. It's clear that the people have limited participation in the above process. The final choice isn't made by the people at all. Some democracy...

https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/...
Also the way Amazon averages reviews is... interesting to say the least.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/reviews/B01B6ZI2Y8/ref=cm_cr_dp...
But the person has to trust that you understand security well enough to prevent your server being compromised, which is not trivial.

That is, it's much easier for an average developer to install this on their server than it is for them to understand the security well enough to guarantee that no one else is snooping on said server. Right?
If they're "inferior" then it's hard to see them as a fortress for the wealthy to hole themselves up in so I think your argument is self-contradictory.
killing the ad industry means killing the current web unless there is another revenue stream
"between ambient light and backlight leakage, by the time a color makes it to a screen, not even plain black (#000) is pure; instead it has become a grayer shade."

This is changing. The best phone displays display "pure" black. If you open a black image on the screen, you cannot tell if the screen is on or off, even in pitch darkness.

I love pure blacks in my apps and Web pages, contrary to the author.
There is no well done study I have heard of that supports your position. In general SSRIs have an effect size that is so low it is not clinically relevant. There are multiple meta analyses that demonstrate that.
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Perfect is the enemy of the good.

Unless your startup you haven't told anybody about solves all 9 issues, I'll take those 3 all the way to the bank! If they get enough traction with this MVP, they may move onto mailing out monthly physical credit cards which would handle a couple more on that list, but how about letting them learn to walk first?
I agree that the contrast on App Engine could be bumped up. But in their defense, most of the text/labels on that page are not meant to be read as if they are prose. As much I like Google's old-school blue aesthetic, the underlined hyperlinks in the sidebar were, IMHO, something that had to go away, as it's mostly obvious that every label, except for the bolded subheads, in the sidebar is a nav-item meant to be clicked.

In terms of font-size, I think it's a difficult tradeoff to make. I'm a bit impressed that the designers didn't try iconifying things and instead stuck with pure text. Again, as the admin page is not meant to be read like an article, the advantage of having small text is that at least it's possible to fit more things onto the page, in consistent locations, rather than forcing the user to scroll.

That's not to say that maybe some of the issue can be mitigated by reconsidering what needs to be on the page. I find myself being mostly OK with the typography on the App engine page because 95% of the content doesn't require my attention, and so making everything #000, as it was in the older version, has limited value to me.

I do prefer the older version's simple-table-list layout. I find Google Cloud Platform to be unusable because of its multi-column boxes-everywhere layout.
I love those old Berners-Lee screenshots to remember how good it looked right from the onset. We have added some footnotes since then.
This is really cool! It's easy to develop new middleware.
If anyone knows where, let me know. I'm gonna need to head there pretty soon.
To make matters worse (i.e. take away even more contrast) users might be using f.lux, twilight or similar which will move the threshold of illegibility nearer.

(and there are valid reasons to use these, indeed I have them on phone and desktop).
I hate to be the "do your own research" guy but I'm fairly certain it is quite easy to search for Twitter's apparent "bad for A, fine for B" policy.
Does a password-protected zip file work?
Most of the same is true about other Japanese cities that aren't so nightmarishly dense.
> A few years ago I had to switch companies or be dropped for having a trampoline -- with a full net -- in my fenced backyard

Seriously? Wow, as a non-American I find that outrageous.

I wonder when they'll threaten to drop people for having coke in their fridge or water in their bathtub. After all, those things kill people every day! They're extremely dangerous.
I plan on spending the full day with the new hire or intern, and my goal is to go from 0 to a running build to a commit in day 1. Sure, it is kinda a hassle for me to block out the whole day, but that gets them past all of the poorly written docs and stupid install/setup bugs. They get excited instead of frustrated. The rest of the first week is exploratory- I ask them to make improvements to the docs based on their experience (get them up to date if they're behind), and also to share notes on larger improvements or ideas they have while they are still fresh. I aim for 1 commit a day in different parts of the codebase to give them some breadth. The second week I treat them like a normal team member to start building a regular flow, but give them a light week of work and block out ~1 hour a day for code reviews and Q&A.

Everything kinda sucks at startups, especially docs. The right way to do this is invest your time up front in order to save you and the new hire time in the long run.
Why stop there, implant it directly into the reader's brain.
It's that so? My experience says otherwise. For example, hn will stay, and so will the linked blog. They don't show ads.
Without a doubt both have a degree of truth, but we are back to the original problem I was responding to. When you list off those two things it makes it seem like they are both equally true. The thing that deserves the most credit is the culture. The things that are most impactful are partially impactful because of the culture. If you are picking the one change that does not depend on changing the culture for effectiveness, you could very well be getting less than 1/10 of the safety of dutch.
There are many problems with this study, but for me the most glaring is the definition of quality that they measured. It was purely whether the program performed as expected. This is obviously an important part of code quality, but not the only one. Most proponents of TDD say that its greatest benefit is creating clean, easily maintained code. So this study didn't even attempt to test the benefit that TDD claims to provide.
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Why does this matter? If it does, you're doing it incredibly wrong. The annual fee and pathetic rewards percentage are much more odious.
I know these things from a friend who is a doctor and works with these neurotransmitter tests since about 10 years.

I asked her how accurate these tests were and she said that, while you can't read everything off a sheet, there are patients, where she can already guess the result of the tests from the bodily symptoms the patient is describing (energy level at which times of the day, feeling of hunger, insomnia etc.).

Quite often serotonin is low and once it has been boosted (verified by an additional test a couple of month later) the patient is feeling a lot better.

Which, like I said, doesn't imply that that's all there is to mental well-being.

These tests also measure stress hormones, which usually are out of bounds as well.

> There is no evidence that SSRIs work by fixing a chemical imbalance.

I don't even know how one would define "chemical imbalance" in such a complex system as the human body.

All I know is that there are average ranges for transmitters and the more somebody's results are inside these ranges, the better he typically feels.
> it's certainly possible that there are entire categories of privately known vulnerabilities which are not even on the public radar

This happened many times for both closed on open source projects. Not surprisingly, given how much is paid for a 0-day.
The first image looks photoshopped.
Insurance isn't about helping people cover expenses, it's about collecting as much premium as possible while paying out as little as possible.
Well, maybe, but maybe the best catches don't want to work in the city center.
I have stopped using any of my cards that don't work with Apple Pay. Apple Pay solves the problem of a static card number being stored god knows where for how long in who knows what flat file or databases. One time card numbers ftw.
You are being downvoted because you completely dismissed something that people worked hard on because it apparently didn't completely solve all credit card fraud instantly.

You also didn't even say which three issues you think Final solves, making discussion about the issue even more difficult.
While it does make our life easier, machines also brought our down our physical abilities. In modern countries, people are usually not as strong, have less stamina, and their immune system is less potent.

We also see a decrease in the ability to focus with people using a lot devices with screens.

I'm quite concerned of what AI is doing to our brain skills: pattern recognition, memory, data processing and summary... Al that stuff, left untrained, could lead to regression.

We already see a lot of people going to the gym, doing artificial exercice to keep their body in shape. And now we got those popular games to "train your mind" on phones and consoles.

It's a issue IMO, but not an easily solved one. Who don't want to use innovations bringing confort, productivity and increased lifespan ?
6 weeks holiday in UK, Germany and Sweden is fairly normal. I don't know about the other countries.
Fuzzy search with MongoDB and Python
An acid test: is a federal judge bound by an OLC legal interpretation? I believe the answer to be a clear "no". How can it then be "law"?
I won't take a strong position on the larger point of whether humans in space are worth it, but there are other uses for a space station than "being far away", "being low g", and "seeing how many astronauts get cancer".
Chaos Monkey: tool helping applications tolerate random instance failures
Subjective though it may be, there are a lot of people who find black-on-white unpleasant to look at. I greatly prefer sites that don't use it, regardless of what they do with font and size.

This could just be a case of conflicting preferences, but I don't think it has to be. Clear contrasts are achievable without insisting on #000/#FFF web design.

- The most obvious improvement is simply keeping an eye on contrast. The article mentions using #333 over #000, but none of the unreadable samples provided are anywhere near that dark. #333 is approximately "light black" to the eye, and I suspect would give little trouble on a white background.

- Another trick is to vary one of background and text. Both Google and Apple violate this guideline by placing dark grey text on a light grey background. Again subjective, but offering a visual 'endpoint' seems to preserve clarity in a way that multiple shades of grey do not (perhaps it just encourages more careful design).

- Finally, we can choose colors which are not strictly grey. The HN background is a rather usable 244/244/235 - not far outside of light grey, but tan enough to provide more contrast than the pure brightness would imply. The vote/name options here are emphatically grey-on-grey, but it is at least a design choice to minimize their distractingness.
That's partly why we left. Not to mention, we were in a small apartment on the 29th floor of a building in Shinjuku. Kids couldn't really do much but stay inside all day. We moved back to the Seattle area and the kids are a lot happier (they are only 5 & 7) now that they can run through the neighborhood as they want -- open fields, forests, tails, parks. Quality of life is a lot better for a family in Seattle compared to Tokyo.
2 billion writes over 8 years? Cool if so, but many database systems both MySQL, and others are capable of getting this in a day. I know this because I maintain some high availability MySQL systems that see about 4 billion writes per day across a similar amount of hardware.

Have you run this through Jespen or done any actual load testing or deep testing for failures related to machines dying, network partitions or other?

I encourage you to do so, because (not trying to sound rude) this kind of reads like "hey my homemade car has 25,000 miles on it and I still use it". But you can build a performance and failure testing framework to really put it through its paces.

Anyhow , have fun and good luck~~
I built something like this in 2015 that didn't gain a ton of traction: https://privateforms.com
The problem with that argument is that white collar corporate fraud is far more of a social problem than small-scale mugging. It's hugely more destructive of security and prosperity.

The list of corporate crimes, especially in finance, is not short. Just because (e.g.) LIBOR fixing doesn't threaten you with a gun doesn't mean you're not still a victim of theft, and that you haven't lost real money as a result of it.

So if you're arguing that crime is bad, then yes - it's racist to limit your definition of dangerous and anti-social crime to direct physical assaults by poor black people.
I understand your point, but please don't equate a poor kneejerk reaction from citizens with "making up random shit" by elected officials. They are not equivalent and "both sides are equally bad!" is bullshit.
What? That sounds crazy to a non-US person. Are you saying that if someone came to visit and hurt themselves on the trampoline they would charge your insurance for it?