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I wish there was a way to do signed, git-verified builds for phone apps. Right now even if a project is opensource there's no way to tell that the version I have on my phone actually matches the source code I read in github.

I'm imagining a process where you point Apple or Google to your project's source tree. They download it and do the actual build process, and then the git SHA of the codebase they compiled gets signed and embedded in the build artifact. As a result, I could go into my phone and see the SHA of the code thats actually running, to make sure the developer of an opensource app hasn't quietly bundled in any changes that don't appear in the source tree.

Of course, this is still vulnerable to tampering from Apple or Google, but they have that capability anyway.
This article makes a rookie mistake of conflating wealth with current income. There are times when certain assets - like land, real estate, tulips or equities - are over-valued, so people who own a lot of land, real estate, tulips or equities are over-valued.

If Satoshi Nakamoto and Jeff Bezos visited a town for a few days, that town would experience extreme wealth inequality the day the duo arrived and revert to a rather normal-looking graph the day Nakamoto and Bezos left. Looking at the data, the residents of that town had been subject to the cruelest wealth inequality in the history of the Universe, but looking at the town, nothing really changed week in and week out.
Armstrong had become some thing more than a successful athlete. He is an inspiration for anybody who has suffered and lost everything in life and has come back and done great things in life. He is a cancer survivor, who also won the most grueling athletic competitions of the modern times.

He must have cheated. But I see it nothing more than those succeed due to things like affirmative action. And he is hated for exactly the same reasons. Other capable people do not see why he must be excused or they be made to swallow up a loss, for a problem that is not theirs.
Gresham's law is specifically about the case where people are required to treat the two moneys as equal when one has a higher real value; if they're just different goods with no parity requirement, the effect doesn't happen.

(People casually refer to "bad money driving out good" whenever smart investors abandon bad markets, but that's a different dynamic from Gresham's Law proper.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1ya-yF35g
Well, barriers to entry matter. If you're craving a drug and it's sold in a convenient store around the corner, you might purchase it more frequently than if you had to buy it from potentially dangerous people in a seedy part of town. That said, as with any bad habit I'm sure usage would still decrease over time for most individuals as they mature or if healthier alternatives are readily available.
THe UK military has also been flying drones for about 10 years with Xbox controllers...

https://www.pyrosoft.co.uk/blog/2007/11/04/army-fly-uav-spy-...
Me too, we have to thank HTML 5 for it.

Yet almost 10 years later, they are still playing catchup with native apps.
Not really. I've taken up running and swimming instead and am happy pursuing these two disciplines as like the people I train with.

Even if the cycling anxiety is gone, the danger would still be there (and SV drivers are only getting more aggressive and hurried each year). I'm generally a risk averse person and I don't really miss cycling much, given my local road conditions.

That being said I have been told by friends that behavioral cognitive therapy can be a big help.
Wow. Finally...

I wonder when we are going to see it on f-droid.
IANAL. I think that is a common misunderstanding of the clause. If you sue them for react patents you can still use HHVM, or vice versa.

https://medium.com/@dwalsh.sdlr/react-facebook-and-the-revok...
Well I'd rather use awsd and a mouse personally.
Another reason is fallback transactions. I get these a lot with my card, I assume because the contacts aren't in great shape.
I don't think any merchants have actually cared enough to check my card for intentional damage to the chip when processing a fallback transaction, but even with the magstrip I get asked for a pin (NZ). https://www.level2kernel.com/blog/index.html%3Fp=136.html
>>The sad thing is that with enough effort he will come back.

Why is it sad?

Are people expected to pay for wrong doing their whole life. I thought the concept of a punishment was reformation, not retribution.
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Interesting. Maybe see if it still leaks with the patch jimjag points out below?

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1807754
To be fair 'space rated' does have meaning.

There is 'off the shelf', 'automotive', 'aeronautic', 'unmanned space' and 'manned space' quality gear.

If you think about it - when you're flying a plane, the 'tolerances' for everything just has to be higher - there's much more at risk.

In a complex system, there are a lot of single points of failure that can cause haywire.

Unsurprisingly, the tolerances for 'unmanned' vs. 'manned' space flight are quite different - and for good reason.

Perhaps the economics are not always quite right, it may make sense to make some small probe out of 'cheap gear' - but there is of course added risk, and usually, you 'only get one launch' attempt.

Finally - there's a reason a 'space grade' radio might cost $13K, and that's because they don't make very many :).

I interned on the Space Shuttle robot arm project - we made these aluminum 'handles' for the arm to grab onto. I mean - really, really basic stuff. $200K each. Engineering, overhead, testing, sales yada yada - we only ever made a few dozen.
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My guess is it's because it still feels a little rough around the edges as a chat application, which shows its open source origin (most open source projects lack sufficient funding, etc)

Every 6 months or so I try pushing it onto "normal" people, and then I realize something is not working quite right. A while ago it was the Signal desktop app that wasn't importing contacts. I also have an issue now where I can't delete/hide a contact from the contacts list in there, even though it doesn't appear on the mobile app.

Speaking of which, I wonder what's their plan for the desktop app, as I believe Google has deprecated those types of apps in Chrome and I don't think it will work anymore in about a year. I've also used WhatsApp more because the native desktop app seems much more reliable.

Then it was messages arriving too slow (waiting many minutes to be "pushed" as a notification, which is pretty bad for a chat application). I think it still has this issue.

The video call still doesn't seem to work as well as the WhatsApp video call. It seems buggy and the connection is not of the same quality. WhatsApp video calls are more resilient than Google's Duo, too, which switches to audio often.

Even the ringtone the video call uses by default is worse than the one WhatsApp uses. I know it seems like a little thing to complain about, and if it was just this one little thing, I probably wouldn't complain about it. But it's all of these together that still stop me from pressing others too much to use it.

I would also like to complain about OWS/Moxie's inability to "build a community". Yes, many cryptographers and security people like the app for the good tech it uses and such, but the organization is not actively trying to build a community or care much for it from what I've noticed. I think Durov and Telegram work on that much more, and it's important. In fact, it may be one of the primary reasons why Telegram is so much more popular.

OWS/Moxie barely even post on Twitter anymore. They release a blog post every few months. It's hard to "get excited" about the app or want to follow them closely too much when they do this.

I think this is also the reason why they're losing/have already lost an opportunity to become the default secure messenger in the Democratic party to Wickr, which is much more active on outreach and stuff like that, even though Clinton's team used Signal in the campaign and they got a lot of good press for it. But they're now blowing all of that away because of their "silence" and non-marketing focus.
I can give you two good reasons. One is to not reward the scammers by giving them free money. The second is that my wife and I have had to replace our credit card about six times in the past three years. Contacting all the places where we have autopayments set up gets to be annoying quickly.
If you can form that argument more convincingly than Jane Jacobs I'll give it more thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_Am...
> You already know the answer to that. Passive index investors will pull out in record numbers.

They're welcome to do that. Lemmings.

I'll go the other way and get more of the index funds - not because they are "cheap" but because their value going down means the fraction of my investments held in the funds has decreased below what I think it should be.
I quoted US figures cause in other countries people generally earn less money (in Germany I think it converts to something like $50k/year).

But you're right that even here once you get far enough to not be reasonably commutable to one of the big cities prices plummet, just not sure which situation better represent the median family.

You can find rural/urban divides online but it's not quite the same if you consider people living in smaller towns are still being counted as urban...The biggest divide is probably between the super in-demand major cities (and their peripheries) vs everyone else.

This is further exaggerated here as Germany has the lowest birth rates in the world and one of the highest inbound immigration rates - which means the big cities are growing (as that's where immigrants are going) and the rest are deflating.
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I don't know. I think the phrase still has a quite a bit of usefulness. The point is to communicate to the public that many people whose job it is to research such a thing agree. I also disagree that consensus has any implication with democracy. It's a word used for general agreement, and in my experience democracies are rarely in agreement.

How else would you tell people that most scientists agree on a position? Also, even if a lone outsider challenged the new data, that's not something you communicate to the public yet. Policy and publicity would need to wait until consensus actually did occur because at that point, the legitimacy of the science would have been worked out.

This terminology is ancient and has been used long before climate change debate.
I have been using an xbox one controller instead of a mouse for 4 or 5 months now. I use the qjoypad package to map the thing. It's really great and I believe it's why my chronic right-side back pain has completely vanished.

So as someone who uses this type of input device, I think it's a great fit for military use.
If they think they can afford a change like this then I think that's a wound, not a kill.
Sadely not all banks validate the billing address. Some just check the zip code, others don't even do that.
> so the facilities for reading them simply didn't (widely) exist

I live in San Diego, 8/10 places where I shop still have chip slot taped closed with a handwritten message "Does not work".
I don't see that borne out by the opioid crisis. Many believe it was lax prescription that allowed opioids to become preferred and prevalent narcotics to abuse. If they are not available it does not matter how many cars or houses you brake into, it does no good if no one is selling.

So you say, well in that case someone will make them dirty and available for a price. Punish the illegal seller and prosecute all suppliers who knowingly sold to someone not registered. Prosecute any and all corruption related to making and distributing the product illegally.

Do people get their coke from Coca-cola imported leaves? No. They know the consequences and take appropriate precautions to ensure they are not subverted by greedy employees.
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> Last time I looked Telegram wasn't recommended by Moxie and a few other people. That was 2-3 years ago. What's the status now?

I honestly don't think it matters. The fact they lie about a large number of items, such as the nature of their relationship/business and have repeatedly is proof enough they can't be trusted.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/11...

> For starters, Durov and other Telegram employees had repeatedly claimed their app was nonprofit, which wasn’t technically true. (“The Telegram team declared numerous times in its FAQs and public statements that Telegram was a non-profit,” Durov wrote to Neff in an email made public in court documents. “… The for-profit entity that we currently have, especially a U.S.-based one, raises questions among our audience.”)

> That's another red flag, needing to spread fud and lies about Signal. Another reason not to trust Telegram. Indicates that maybe their ethics and integrity are a bit too flexible.

Lying has been their modus operandi since the start.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6948742

> You must not have followed Telegram much. From the beginning they've done nothing but pretend their protocol is absolutely secure ("military-grade encryption", "world's most secure protocol", etc) and rejected any attempt from the crypto community to help them fix problems before they endanger people.

The sheer pervasiveness of their lies and the fact it ranges from the quality of their cryptographic skills to the nature of their business should have prevented its adoption. Unfortunately, lying at scale appears to work because most people simply dismiss it as "competitors" attacking their competition. :\
HTML have always had plugins too... this ends that.

Think of EME as a slightly better sandboxed plugin with a single very small purposes... As oppose to the security horrors from Flash
It's a good lib, and I use it in my some mobile projects.
Originally, I didn't install signal because i have a google-free android smartphone, and signal depends/depended HARD on the play framework, even though that's not necessary. [1]

> Marlinspike reiterated that the whole point of end-to-end encryption is that users no longer need to trust anyone if the protocol works — and Signal does.

But it depended on the google play framework - and I don't trust google. So where does that leave me?

EDIT:

To reiterate: As far as I can tell Signal itself is secure enough. However, the most secure chat app is insecure if it is run on an insecure operating system.

Now, I don't want to start a discussion about android security. But:

- The update situation is quite bad, leaving (for example) my phone with exploitable bluetooth

- Google itself ... could at least be coerced by a state actor into compromising anyone's privacy

With those two facts given, the practical difference between signal and telegram seems... less relevant.

[1]: Look at the "conversations" app. Yes, it is for XMPP, which is old and uncool - but it (a) doesn't use the play framework either and (b) uses very little battery on my phone, despite holding an open connection most of the time. That IMO proves that depending on the play framework is unnecessary in this case.
Building a multitasking webvr environment at niftykick.com

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3xZ1G291Ks

Starting to see some developer and beta user interest :)
> Speculators typically leave the coins in an exchange wallet (they are not sufficiently technically savvy or motivated to run their own wallet)

Source? After the Mt. Gox disaster the recommendation I've encountered most is to have the bulk of the digital assets in your own cold wallet, and only trust the exchange with the assets you can afford to lose. Since the deposits are near instantaneous, there's really no good reason to entrust the exchange with large chunks.
We have to forbid DRM by legal means...

Void copyright if DRM is employed, the same way you can have secret parents.

Legal protection shouldn't come without a price.
I doubt feudalism has been the norm for most of human history. It was the system preceding the current one yes but not some sort of "default" or "natural" system though.
I agree, that doesn't look bad. However, this type definition forces you to supply one argument per function call, which looks awful in JavaScript:

fn(1)(2)(3)

That's a big drawback for me. Libraries like Ramda allow one or more arguments per function call:

fn(1, 2, 3) === fn(1, 2)(3) === fn(1)(2, 3)

That's what makes the verbosity unbearable, as each type of call needs its own type.
My understanding is that there's the war on drugs and then there's the War on Drugs, and the latter is what is (correctly?) attributed to Nixon, even when it is not bothered to be capitalized.
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I don't think it's good for you, especially when drunk to excess, but that's not going to stop us drinking it is it?
> The odds of hurting someone else when youre driving after drinking are ridiculously high.

No. They are not ridiculously high. They are minuscule.

"In 2015, nearly 1.1 million drivers were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics. That’s one percent of the 111 million self-reported episodes of alcohol-impaired driving among U.S. adults each year"[1]

Assuming that all the drunk drivers that hurt someone else are arrested and most arrested ones haven't hurt anyone, odds of hurting someone when drinking & driving are way less than 1%.

(This is not to imply that I would like to allow drunk driving.)

[1]https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impa...
The best lib is none, let the browser handle it.

Or don't, the more people using no-script the better.
Bottom line is deaths from overdose.

Drugs criminalized, USA:

150 deaths/million people/year

Drugs legalized, Portugal:

3 deaths/million people/year
The Xbox 360 controller is literally the best controller in existence. The Xbox One controller is a step back. Quality control is fucked up, every single one of my Xbox One controllers has a (different) problem, whereas my about 8 Xbox 360 controllers were impeccable across the board until I wore them out. And forget about the PS controllers, they are garbage.
Sorry, but I have seen billion dollar worth front page releases made on A/B testing results. The tests and analysis long over several months, and the data is looked at from various dimensions to see what's good.

If there is a manager that has an excuse to not look at data or play the usual 'I know better' game, its generally an indication that person is hiding a bigger incapability behind these 'appeal to authority' word games.
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Unconditional parenting hurts self-esteem, encourages immaturity and ill prepares children for life in the adult world. Alfie Kohn should retitle that book "How to Raise a Self-Centered A-Hole". Most things in life have strings attached - yep, love is no different. Try treating someone who loves you with a lack of regard, an emotionally healthy person will draw a line. Set boundaries, show disapproval or risk raising a child with an inability to emotionally regulate when things don't go their way as they so often do in life.

Unconditional love should only apply to achievement so the child will not fear that you will not love them if they fail to meet academic expectations. Instill essential qualities, such as hard work, discipline, patience, persistence, and perseverance then you give a child the tools to achieve their goals.
Thank you for this. Absolutely great read. Bookmarked!
Hmm, is there no offline mode at all for chip + PIN?
But also, people who have addictions wouldn't be considered criminals so they wouldn't be so reluctant to get help.
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>Finally. I hope this will signal a turning point on this insane approach to national health in all countries. Drugs are a health problem, not a criminal problem.

Agreed.

>...Nixon started the war on drugs anyway as a mean to attack left and black activists

This point is a little controversial, in, as far as I know, we have to take Ehrlichman's word on this.

https://www.quora.com/Is-John-Ehrlichman-a-credible-source-w...

While Nixon is remembered for "war on drugs", the actual substance of his policies seems to be different than what people think it was:

>...Their consensus is that because he was dramatically expanding the U.S. treatment system (by 350% in just 18 months!) and cutting criminal penalties, he had to reassure his right wing that he hadn’t gone soft. So he laid on some of the toughest anti-drug rhetoric in history, including making a White House speech declaring a “war on drugs” and calling drugs “public enemy number one”. It worked so well as cover that many people remember that “tough” press event and forget that what Nixon did at it was introduce not a general or a cop or a preacher to be his drug policy chief but…a medical doctor (Jerry Jaffe, a sweet, bookish man who had longish hair and sideburns and often wore the Mickey Mouse tie his kids had given him).

http://www.samefacts.com/2011/06/drug-policy/who-started-the...
i knew a guy in highschool who was really into bicycles. one time i was talking to him about lance armstrong and he commented on how he has met him one time, and that he was a complete asshole. then he said that lance armstrong was using steroids during all his races and that he employed special techniques in order to evade the drug tests. this was in around 2007. obviously i thought that my friend was completely full of shit.
The web has been engineered to a complexity level so grossly obscene that it is all but impossible for independent developers to produce fully independent web browsers anymore. You would need hundreds of millions of dollars in capital and strong leadership to produce a browser that would be successful in today's world.

I could dedicate the rest of my life working 100 hours a week on a browser, and I would die before I had something that could compete with browsers of 2017, let alone of the browsers far into the future at my demise. The standards grow in complexity faster than a small team of developers could possibly keep up with.

The best we have are attempts at forks of major browser engines, which will never gain any serious traction to have any power over the direction of web standards.

If people want to do something about it, they need to fork the web itself. HTTP, TLS, HTML, CSS, JS ... the entire stack needs to be scrapped and replaced with something sensible with a focus on simplicity. If a single highly talented developer working full-time can't implement a reasonable browser within a year, then the standard is too complex. This will of course never happen.

And so, on the subject of DRM, we've officially lost the war today. And combined with the impending loss of net neutrality, brace yourselves everyone: it's only going to get worse from here on out.
We need lots of water, to shield against radiation..
> If someone launches a new HTML-based Web with crippled javascript (no network comm access, for one, including ability to trigger links or forms), some small, restricted subset of CSS, and much better built-in dynamic table and form elements, I'm there.

Why not just do this yourself? Fork chromium and start commenting stuff you don't want out. It would likely only take a weekend or two of hacking...
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maybe with the a bit of help from mirrors (reflecting the sun) the street level would look better.
I dont use in my project, but it seem good lib.