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Nautilus' print edition is a beautiful magazine, definitely can't be compared to a typical print mag. It's the quality of a National Geo mag, I think.
Indeed. Yet the price of oil going down at some point is hardly an unforeseeable scenario, right? They're not stupid people. They were led to believe that it would never end, or that basic economic principles didn't apply to them.

Socialism works great until you run out of other people's money. Whether it's because the price of oil dropped, your most productive tax payers moved out, or your currency hyperinflates until it's worthless: somehow it's never socialism's fault. Reality eventually does set in, though.
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Good sentiment, and better cause...

but please, for the love of god, proofread your writing!
Did he click on a link telling him someone had shared a google doc with him?
If the seizure was legally conducted based on the law, then ownership of the property in question arguably has been transferred. Obviously asset seizure in itself is not illegal. And so Thomas' argument hinges on the concept that since it's no longer their property, they have no Constitutional rights regarding it's return.

I don't think it's a wholly invalid point, even if the result is terrible. And obviously the rest of the court decided to lean in favor of the common man, which I think is a general good.
At installation time.
What? Apple was not putting on a show. What the FBI requested required actual software development to be done. You can't force someone to work for you.
Asus X99-E WS is a good starting point. You can put four double wide GPUs on that.

Another really nice one is this one:

https://www.supermicro.nl/Aplus/system/Tower/4021/AS-4021GA-... (AMD based)

https://www.supermicro.nl/products/system/4U/7047/SYS-7047GR... (Intel based)

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-t630/pd

(That last one should be able to hold 4 GPUs but I'm not quite sure about whether or not it will be able to power all of them, Dell isn't helping with their documentation either.)

Edit: just found this:

http://www.supermicro.nl/products/system/4U/4027/SYS-4027GR-...

About $4K, + 8 GPUs that's a pretty penny. Drool.
What sort of comms did these rigs use? Satellite?

And how advanced were the electronic systems on these rigs? I suppose they had to run everything from SCADA through to heating for accommodation blocks?
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> Or they'll do better jobs. [...] The 69% didn't become an unemployed underclass.

No, they moved into factory, mining, retail, and other jobs that were commensurate with their abilities. The automation shift is not the same, because it will take over all the unskilled/low-skilled jobs, and there will be nowhere in the economy for the displaced people to move into.

It is not really conceivable that all these people are capable of taking on jobs which require complex thinking, judgment, creativity, or other higher skills. IQ is a real thing, and although it does not reflect on someone's human value, it does very definitely place limits on what functions a significant portion of the population can perform. And in the long run, we will all be in that displaced portion. Best that we find ways to create human security and meaning, now, for a coming world in which we have no necessary economic role to play.
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Would you be interested in supporting color space conversions for Apple developers? Like how does UIColor(displayP3Red:0.7 green:0.8 blue:0.4) map to extended sRGB? Standard sRGB? If you give you an sRGB color, what's the saturated version of that color in P3? What's the 50% desaturated version of a given color? Etc.
>oh, noticed `0.5` turn into `.5` and `black` turn into `#000`. not sure how that will make it more JSX compatible

That's for minimizing code size. In both of your examples one byte is shaved off.

Arguably this is a case of premature optimization though. For production, the Closure compiler will do a far better job at it. For development, you won't notice the difference of shaving off a few kilobytes.
You are assuming I'm calling other people stupid. I'm merely claiming that the bigger global powers at play simply don't matter to the average human as much as their immediate circumstances (job, family, income, healthcare)...and that's why they don't vote for external circumstances.

All of the above (family, job, income, housing etc) need underlying structures. These underlying structures are complex and intertwined with one another.

When the average person comes out and votes, "Why should I pay for other's health problems?"...it sounds fair at a local level. At a societal level, it's a major problem.

Most voters are not going to vote at a societal level.
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>Except it's really not. Reality is an equal number of female and male voices.

Not in things you'd make a move around.
I was wondering this too, who is exposed, by how much, and are those entities publicly traded now?

In the Detroit one, bond holders were able to get back .75c on the dollar[0], and I suspect the haircut here will be worse for bond holders.

[0] http://www.barrons.com/articles/seven-lessons-from-detroits-...
> ... not just hardware interpreting and 'running' the 'code' of law.

We're heading that way in terms of contracts and blockchain.

And insofar as "the law" is a contract between the citizens and government, you'll find more and more government regulation being implemented in blockchain in the future.
So we did pretty well on the business side. We were first, or very darn close to first, to realize that leasing software is smarter than selling it. That was me, that's my confidence.

I did all the sales for the first ~8 years, 16 hours a day on the phone. During that time I ran what I called "Larry's dating service" which was when I was talking to someone crazy smart I would go "Do you know ...." and then hook them up. It's not Tinder but I made a pile of really smart people get to know each other. That's confidence. I think.

Etc. I get that you are trying to tell me something but I'm not sure what it is. If I've come off as not confident that's sort of a mistake, there was a time when I was in my groove and I felt like Steve Jobs, I knew what the world wanted before they knew it. I had to push to get that stuff done, everyone said they didn't want that stuff and then they did. That takes a shitload of ego to keep going.

I'm just not sure where if I were more confident we would have been better. I suspect if I had been less confident we might be better. So I am not arguing with you or trying to disrespect you, I just don't get the not confident thing.
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Hi Larry,

I for one thank you for your contribution. Hacker News can be a bunch of jackasses at times.

You are absolutely right: distributed version control led to git, which completely changed programming. And though Satoshi didn't cite it by name it was almost certainly also part of the inspiration for Bitcoin and the blockchain, which has led to another $30B in collective market cap.

If you want a suggestion for what to do next, or what to advise, you can probably have a lot of impact (and make money) by getting involved in some of these new distributed ledger/ICO projects. You have the technical ability and it's now possible to monetize at the protocol level. Here are some links if you're interested:

https://www.smithandcrown.com/icos/

https://startupboy.com/2014/03/09/the-bitcoin-model-for-crow...

http://www.usv.com/blog/fat-protocols
No, that's me. Maybe I should change my login.
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>If you really want security, it's something that every programmer should be thinking about, at least in the back of their mind, on every line of code they write.

Unless you're doing this with some level of competence, it's probably wrong.

Making line developers competent at security is a nice idea, but you have about 27 other things people have said that developers should be good at alongside of security.
Some just never learn. How many times will they bring up this "let's make a backdoor but we don't really want a backdoor" stupidity?
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How far does the graft and corruption have to take from us before we start publicly hanging them by their genitals?
The apprenticeships are particularly important.

Many brilliant friends of mine who failed university or even high school did an apprenticeship instead.

Among them are CEOs, R&D managers and founders.
There's lots of talk about tapping into the 'green belt' to allow more residential building.

Something needs to be done though, soon and carefully. The market's getting out of control. And often what you don't hear is the 'spillovers'.

1.Where a person from toronto sells their home for a lot, then travels to a town outside toronto to retire/settle down. Local residents/new home owners can't compete with these buyers with so much capital(especially in areas with supressed/depressed employement).

2.Where people give up trying to afford living in Toronto and move out of town to commute. This has caused rents in Hamilton/Burlington etc to skyrocket.
I think we need to do everything we can to make it so that the tools that regular programmers use aren't dangerous and/or insecure by default; otherwise, we're just playing security vulnerability whack-a-mole. Better to solve problems at the source than try to educate people how not to use a tool incorrectly. This is really hard because there are so many widely used tools and abstractions that were designed to be as powerful as possible rather than to be easy to formally verify for correctness. I feel like the whole software industry is built on a wobbly foundation, but it's hard to part with tools we know because they're useful and they work, even if they do break rather often.

A good start would be to stop using C and C++ for new projects, and generally try to eradicate undefined behavior at all levels of software. There's a lot of really great software written in C and C++, and it would be a huge undertaking to replace, say, the Linux kernel with something written in Rust or Swift or some language that hasn't been invented yet. I think the eventual benefits may greatly outweigh the costs, but it's a lot easier to sit in a local optimum where everything is comfortable and familiar than to set out on a quest to, say, formally verify that no use-after-free errors or race conditions are possible in any of the software running on a general-purpose computer with ordinary applications.
The greatest problem right now is our hardware, not our software. We can always devise secure encryption schemes without backdoors. Nobody can do anything against it.

Our hardware on the other hand... is probably backdoored already.
Thanks. I am on your side and have been a Ruby fan since 2005. I'm trying to throw money at building better Ruby tooling. :)

I'm familiar with those projects, but when I last tried them, they did not work well enough with some additional constraints that the nature of our product imposes (chiefly requirements for error-tolerance and cross-project resolution), and we weren't able to find people to help us. I will try them again and see if we can sponsor someone now to help integrate when with Sourcegraph, since it looks like quite a bit of progress has been made in the last few months.
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no, of course not. i'm a nobody. but that's the impression that's out there. i don't really care, tbh, it seems like it was just bad timing.

anyway, glad to hear you are retired by the sea in norcal, that's not exactly a sob story, which is why i feel comfortable commenting about it (and you're on a public forum).
Wait does he have a Masters in Information Security from the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology???!

Joking aside, unfortunately it takes deep problems to motivate people/the US to change. It'll swing this way, and there will be dramatic consequences. Only then will things swing back the other way.

It's too bad there isn't any balance here -- it does make sense in many situations that the police/courts should be able to gain access to information. But encryption doesn't care about the situation. Encryption doesn't care who you are. Encryption has no contextual morales of its own.

If data had physical weight, where things that were important we're really hard to steal, then it'd function like the real world. But data does not, and it's too easy to download gigs of data one should never have access to. It's very difficult to gain a middle ground as suggested by Pelosi. I don't know if she understands that.
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Convenience really does play a part here though. The easier it is to be secure the more people will take advantage of it. Good for the most part - but bad from the FBI's perspective when a criminal uses it to hide their misdeeds.

The likelihood for a criminal to use a one time pad is extremely low. The likelihood of them having an encrypted cell phone with useful information is much higher. It would be tough to argue that a law against cell phone encryption wouldn't be effective for this purpose.

More valid criticism is its disproportionate impact on lawful uses.
Yeah, but what I'm getting at is basically: running LittleSnitch on MacOS makes it clear how much activity is happening. Surely OpenSnitch on GNU/Linux would do the same. But I would assume that some knowledgeable people would know about the extent of the difference generally. I suspect that MacOS programs are far more rampant in calling home, and the GNU/Linux stuff would mostly just be proprietary programs doing it. So, I was asking if people know about this stuff generally…
OK, yes -- there are many cool technical possibilities. And per the other commenter above, it's not as if this is any less rigorous than an average seed round. OK, but when you have people investing multiple millions at a 100mm+ valuation, on an unproven team (and this is a charitable description in many cases), pre-product, there is a risk that the opportunity is being mispriced. There is a conflict -- on one hand, an ICO is "fairer" to developers in that they receive immediate compensation, and a larger share of the opportunity for the work they are doing. On the other hand, this mechanic is highly prone to fraud and abuse.
Seconded. I ended the book very impressed with Vernor Vinge's ideas but found the story and writing almost insufferable. I tried it again a few years later and had the same experience. If it were a movie, it would win all technical oscars and blow lots of minds.

Neuromancer, on the other hand, has aged astonishingly well. Even though Gibson is a sort of awkward writer, I believe in the people he writes about. If it were a movie, it would bomb but the actors would say it was the best work they ever did.
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One way to fight terrorism is refusing to be terrorized.

The goal of terrorists is inflicting terror and reactions following from the terror. Terror suppresses reason, so the reactions become less reasonable and thus detrimental to the attacked side.

By this measure, terrorists have unquestionably won. The Western societies under attack suppress their core values after the attacks, such as openness, free speech, tolerance to a variety of views, and primacy of reason and right over force. Voluntarily crippling your own encryption is like voluntarily making holes in your armor, all out of fear.

It's like an auto-immune reaction that kills the patient instead of the germ.
simple.com kinda-sorta had this idea, but without the denying transactions bit (and I kinda want the ability to set a goal that just gets money added to it every month, indefinitely, but that's not a feature :( )
Few years ago Google, apple and others engaged in antipoaching agreements.
I would not be so sure of that. I really believe the President's guiding principle is to do whatever it is that will enrage liberals the most. If Republicans see that liberals want strong encryption, they might decide to oppose it just to piss off liberals. It's amazing to me that a lot of the same people advocating gun rights are also the ones that support government mandated encryption backdoors.
Extreme globalization is bad. But globalization is good. Before globalization, there existed wars. Ask your Grandpa.
But everyone is definitely not lumped together into a commons. If their is information to delineate people, it will be used. That is what credit scores are used for. Also, of some interest, it was when banks sullied the information, that the housing market really went off the rails.

BTW: We've got to watch out for these financial guys, they'll try it again if they have the chance.
As a CS student at Michigan State in the late 70s I have fond memories of FORTRAN, COBOL, and assembler programming on the 6500.

It was interesting to see many of the design principles from that mid-60s system show up in RISC designs in the 80s and beyond.
More people die of auto erotic asphyxiation than terrorism annually (~682 people). You're insistence is what is rediculous, as parent pointed out if it was a problem--it isn't; then 0 cases have been publicly thwarted via this technique.

I don't buy in that this problem is large enough not that this solution would be acceptable if it was
They generally have a team behind them, rather than an individual.
Ditto. That was the first language I was taught at UNSW (in 1993). It was quite a change from the BASIC, assembler, and C I had taught myself in high-school.
^ EDIT: Since this is the top comment, I should clarify that I don’t think the author is dumb or anything; 1. in particular is fairly common advice. The issue is not the error wrapping itself, but the smell that your logging solution is probably not recording causality.

And as for 2., I recall a hilarious incident with an email alert turning a deployment into a spambot, so... :)
Encryption will never be intentionally backdoored on a large scale.

I think one of RSA argued this, basically "Do you really think the government will want to review and approve everything on the app store?"

Forcing big players to divulge data, making accused people decrypt their devices -- those are things the government could do. Encryption per se isn't in any danger.
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That's not accurate. I was just in Chengdu and Shenzhen last month and paid almost exclusively in cash everywhere I went. In fact for smaller vendors and street food, cash is the only option. Many vendors also accept WeChat payments (which seems to be the most common form of payment, at least for casual to mid-range transactions by people in my peer group), and UnionPay network credit cards are also widely accepted. Western credit/debit cards tend to work only at more upscale/modern/larger vendors. From what I've seen of Chinese commerce in various cities, I would be very very surprised if China went anywhere near cashless anytime soon. Cash seems to be a bigger part of the culture there than in the USA.

You do have to show government ID to get a cell phone or purchase long-distance train tickets. Also checking into a higher end hotel. And since using public Wi-Fi requires you to authenticate with your Chinese phone number, that's also effectively linked to your ID. There are many aspects of Chinese society that are easily trackable by the government, but commerce does not seem to be one of them, at least from what I've seen.
> Members of our government are so indoctrinated about stopping "terrorism" that they have lost all sense of perspective. Terrorism is a political word to describe political enemies of the state, yet the patriot act and surveillance machinery has been used in enforcement of many other kinds of (less serious) crime.

You are looking at the problem wrong. It has nothing to do with government indoctrination but an issue with incentives. The FBI's whole job is to investigate potentially illegal acts and as human beings they are incentivized to do their job as well as they can. When the opportunity comes up to give them more tools to do their job no one in the FBI is going to say "no I want to continue with one hand behind my back".

The exact same thing happens at companies. Companies with poorly aligned incentives will quickly see employees act against the will of the company as a whole to make sure they look and come across as best as possible, and any chance a decision comes up to help them do their job better they will fight for it, because not doing so is pretty dumb.

Well run companies work around these incentive issues by trying to get everyone aligned with checks and balances. We don't have that in the government because the people who are supposed to be doing the checks and balances (congress) have incentives to follow the FBI's requests because of the political suicide of coming out against solving crimes and defeating terrorists. It can (and will) be used against them at election time and their checks and balances (us as voters) fall for it all the time because we (as a collective whole) are short sighted and scared that something might happen and don't want to be someone who voted for someone soft on security.

The only way to realign the incentives back for societal good is to get the common voter to understand the bigger implications of issues and hold our elected officals accountable. Until that happens the incentiives are always going to be aligned for the government to gain power.
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So export the json from simple and build your own graphs, then.
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Looking forward to the Python parser being GA, keep up the good work :)
On the other hand some ruters use url's like http://routerlogin.net and from my perspective that seems dodgy since that could mean all the routers are centrally configured somehow.
You know it's been years since I saw a website with a loading graphic that would sit there and spin before the main page rendered.

And yet, that's what LinkedIn's new design has managed to do.
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