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>> Art. 20 II of our constitution. That's the philosophical foundation of how our state works. Every state action is derived from that principle. That's of course no nonsense but thankfully absolutely unchallenged by everybody who teaches you about our state.

What you sounds does not follow from that article - your are mistaking an "ought" for an "is"! If our duty was to do no more than "respect and enforce" laws, how is it that the supreme court declares laws as unconstitutional on a fairly regular basis? An unconstitutional law is best left unenforced and disrespected, is it not?

>> Well, apart from basically all the things that granted that period a special place in every history book hopefully forever.

No special pleading allowed! Besides, there are countless less extreme examples of "democratic processes" leading to unfavorable outcomes. It's just not a strong argument for anything. Witch burning was a grassroots democratic movement, if you want to look at it that way!

>> We integrated various safeguards into our constitution and laws to ensure that something like that never happens again. This law (no matter how bad) is a piece in that puzzle and should be viewed as such.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. If the previous N laws to "ensure that something like that never happens again" don't, in fact, ensure that "something like that never happens again", then why would the N+1th law make any difference? The same process that created this law can be used to repeal it. Its very existence gives strength to the far right.
Sortof. In practice, I have 2 "live" yubikeys per purpose, since I want a USB-A and USB-C set depending on whether my computer is plugged in to the hub on my desk or mobile.

That gives me redundancy in case I accidentally dropped one in a blender or whatever. But also for anything high-criticality (basically anything where losing both yubikeys would lock me out permanently without further backups), I have another yubikey sitting physically-secured. It works out nice, since that's the same approach I was taking w/ "security question" answers and other recovery tokens.
I think the reason that you believe that is because of the "loud" ones who have made their crypto money are almost omnipresent. I missed the boat, but I know of quite a few people who are crypto-rich yet do not bring it up all the time and live the same life they did before.
As others are indicating, this is tech exists, and in some places it's widely deployed, where in some others it's nowhere to be found. I've seen them in several US cities and suburbs, in many states, usually along major arterials and covering the busiest intersections.

Missouri Department of Transportation's St Louis District has one of the best FAQs [1] on this tech that shows how these cameras work: exactly as you'd suspect from some OpenCV proof-of-concept.

The cameras are a more robust replacement of the in-pavement induction loops, which are much more widely deployed, but give you a subset of the information at a higher cost.

[1] http://www.modot.org/stlouis/links/signalcameras.htm
You can generate the keys on a Raspberry Pi or similar, transfer them to the Yubikey, and keep the backup in a safe place.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/running
It is exactly the same.

First of all, I COULD sell my stale2002 dollars for real dollars, at market price, as long as I am not lying about what I am selling.

The price of my sale2002 dollars would probably be ~0, but I am still not breaking the law.

If you fork Bitcoin, you can't redeemed your forked coins for real Bitcoin, either.

It would be a completely new and different currency.

The same exact thing is the case with my new paper bills.
This reply was a much better explanation than the entire original article, or to summarize “Because memory leaks”.
An alternative to this is https://krypt.co/ which generates keys on your phone’s secure element/enclave and communicates with your laptop via bluetooth. It has a straightforward script to copy another public key from a backup phone to all your authorized servers, and the UI is excellent for signing git commits and authorizing ssh sessions. Doesn’t yet support U2F.
Huh, is using SSH on a GPG key safe? Can't the server trick you into signing a "challenge" that is actually a meaningful statement?
My Yubikey is provisioned with a SSH key generated on an air gaped laptop running Tails OS (live cd). The master key and subkeys were then saved on a separate encrypted SD card at the same time for backup.
> The articles seem pretty low quality. Sorry to say it, but a lot of them seem to be written as a form of homework, as in "you should write something to be seen". There's rarely any insightful comments on news pieces either.

Most of the content on LinkedIn is self-congratulatory circe-jerking (for lack of a better term). People give Reddit shit for that, but it has nothing on the ego-stroking and pandering that happens on LinkedIn.
I think this is mostly right, but there is still some room for concern. First off, those anti-missile defenses have never been tested in anger and we can't be 100% sure they will work. (I'd love to think we have an effective boost-phase defense in place, but I gather that's not going to be a reality for a few years yet, at best.) Second, what I think Kim really wants to use those nukes for, besides leverage in the sanctions discussions, is to pry apart our alliance with South Korea, by making it too dangerous for us to come to their aid once NK attacks Seoul. Even with Pyongyang flattened, there could still be launchers hidden in the mountains and one of those rockets might get past our defenses. Would you really want to risk Seattle or San Francisco or even Honolulu?

On the other hand, I think everyone except possibly Kim and his minions wants peace and stability on the Korean peninsula. The Chinese certainly do, and I think even the Russians, though they have less at stake, would not want to see war break out — certainly not nuclear war, which would endanger Vladivostok. What I don't know is how badly Kim wants to conquer South Korea. He likes to argue that his nukes are for defensive purposes, and that's not unreasonable under the circumstances, but the problem is that they can be used offensively as well. What I would like to see is a peace treaty that obliges not just us and Japan but also China and Russia to participate in obliterating North Korea should they attack South Korea or anyone else.

That sounds like a pipe dream, but consider this. We could provide South Korea with nukes. Yes, it would be in violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. (I wouldn't suggest abrogating the treaty altogether, but it has clearly failed its purpose in this instance. A case can be made for restoring the regional balance of power.) We shouldn't bluff, but a credible threat to nuclear-arm South Korea might bring China and even Russia to the table.
Getting Started with Algorithmic Cryptocurrency Trading
> Removing human judgement is exactly the point. Whether this thrills or horrifies you is, I think, a personality trait.

I attach neither horror nor thrill to that idea, I find it laughable. We all have our abstract ideals, and these abstract ideals eventually meet the reality of human interaction. There is no possibility of removing human judgement, as long as humans are in control of the machines. Humans may temporarily agree to go with whatever the machines say, but that is only a temporary status, as whoever controls the machines has ultimate control.
P.S. I was the one who stole the cookie from the cookie jar.
If the commitment uses a salt, it won’t be possible for anyone to verify guesses before Alice publishes the reveal message (which would include the salt).

In any case, the blog post has Alice rewarding whoever comes closest, not whoever guesses the exact value. For a sufficiently large range of numbers (e.g. 128 bits), you wouldn’t really need a salt since the probability of anyone guessing the exact value would be negligible.
Honestly that is like saying Windows Phone doesn't need the apps.

React has a self sufficient cross platform eco system. I don't think people using primarily web frameworks even realize the implications of that yet. React works outside of the browser, and not just natively on mobile but literally everywhere. Imagine you use React as you always would to make a native command line application (https://github.com/Yomguithereal/react-blessed), but now you want to have a store or move things around, so you `npm install react-redux react-motion` and you just apply it (https://github.com/gaearon/react-blessed-hot-motion). Look at the code and try to picture the overhead if you had to do this in C++.

Being able to transfer code and knowledge, and seeing new renderers pop up for the wildest platforms each day, as well as official renderers made by big vendors (https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows), the idea of a web-bound Angular-like framework seems odd in 2018. I wouldn't expect Vue to get the same kind of popularity without at least competing or doing something new.
This news story is off the front page, so I hope posting a comment here isn't considered so off topic anymore that it matters. But even something as simple as the "sermon on the mount" is incredibly deep spiritually as well as intellectually. Go read it (it's short) and consider that the list of "physical todos" is always related to some kind of internal concept. I don't think the two can be divorced.

Consider the simple concept of saying "thank you" to someone. Even if you don't feel like it or believe it to be useful or necessary, it can have a profound impact on the inside of the person hearing it.

I would posit that all physical acts start and end with an internal effect, either or both on the doer and the receiver (if there is one).

The law of the old testament is often accused of being a forced list of empty physical requirements. But consider what Jesus said about the law and the commandments, that there are two great commandments, love God and love your neighbor. And then said "On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets."

Not only did he state that the most important things you can "do" are things we cherish as purely internal, they are only useful if expressed externally. And then he responds all criticism of the old testament law by stating they "depend" on the love of God and our neighbors.

A proverb says something like "being hit by a friend is better than love that is hidden." I proved that having love for my wife was utterly meaningless in any way shape or form if I didn't somehow make her feel it too. And the only way I could do that is through a physical act.

Internal only reflections without external expression is selfishness.

But to leave this with one more thought, Paul wrote "...whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things."

Maybe there is more the teachings of Jesus than is popularly known or shared?
Ask HN: Why aren't I getting responses to my Who Is Hiring applications?
Hi everyone,

I've applied for dozens of jobs in the Who Is Hiring Jan 2018 thread, like I do every month. As always, I am ignored 95% of the time, with the other 5% of jobs responding "nice stuff, we'll keep in touch". The sentiment is nice, but obviously doesn't pay the bills.

The reason I'm asking is because I consider myself pretty talented. I do fullstack dev and I also design. (If you're curious you can see my resume here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VijR1MF6xDNzH9IPrsv2UxLeC8sZ8nSF2Eux7lkuYQ8/edit and my design work here: www.beaver.digital).

Are other applicants just ridiculously more skilled than I am? Or am I doing/assuming something wrong? What has been the experience of others?

Thanks.
We use Yubikey for our production systems and yes: every operator has two keys that have been configured and registered in our access database.

We decided though not to make our backup keys hot. It's a manual operation to enable it. The risk that everyone could simultaneously lose their key was lower than the risk of a backup key being lost and then used--since a person isn't likely to routinely check on their backup keys the later problem may go undetected for some time, whereas you know the day you lose your primary key and must report that situation anyway.
> If you think any judicial system in the world is - or could be - equipped to deal with millions of potentially criminal comments from a social network on a case per case basis you are deluding yourself.

So, what's your point then? No judicial system possibly could, but Facebook can? Or Facebook can't either, so let's just ignore the constitution?

> More than that, it would be a textcase of privatising profits and leaving the costs to pick up for everyone else, while facebook siphoons the profits to tax havens.

Wut? Taxing Facebook more in order to finance an independent judicial system that takes care of the legal cases involving Facebook is a textbook case of privatising profits and externalising costs? I'm not sure I follow!?

Also, I'm not sure it's really exactly correct to say that Facebook is the source of these costs, given that it's citizens who say illegal things. If people meet in a pub to commit Volksverhetzung, is the pub the source of the law enforcement costs?
An integrity verification service for [the codebase of] ICOs and other coins would be a welcome innovation
It's not where you start but where you finish.
Puppies start walking earlier than babies.

Great. The next question should be: so what? And that's what this article fails to deliver on.
+1 Pavlo is wonderful (in person as well)
apparently this being reposted in the third position is a natural result of hn ranking
> polygamy, child abuse, and endless fast and testimony meetings

Speaking anecdotally about my experiences in Oregon with Mormon friends, this feels like a gross misrepresentation. I haven't seen any of these situations pop up, and certainly not in any way that would cause it to be systemic.
In 1997 the majority of monitors were CRTs, so lines were naturally fuzzy and I think this is a large part of what causes eyestrain --- the inability to focus clearly. I remember upgrading to an LCD and the sharpness was amazing. I think widespread subpixel antialiasing later made things worse; when I first tried it, the text looked "too smooth" and I got dizzy, watery eyes because it felt like I constantly couldn't focus. Now I make it a habit of always turning it off, and I suspect the studies that say it increases reading speed are because for most people it subtly makes them want to not stop and focus --- it's subconsciously unpleasant to.
Pay Attention to Your Churn – Chances Are It’s Too High
> They've all been around for many years and are backed by trusted entities

That's so obvious it probably doesn't need to be stated.

The GP's argument is that cryptocurrency wealth is somehow lesser because it's "paper" wealth.

You didn't really answer how cryptocurrency is any more or less "paper-like" than other intangible assets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_speech_situation

You're certainly right about the long tradition behind 'debate', and yet, it does still carry the connotations I mentioned earlier, to the extent that one would likely have to say "let's a have a fair and honest debate about X" in order to temper some of the unproductive tendencies that tend to arise in a debate.
there are other way to "punish proactively", malnutrition is not one of them, it's silly.
The article is okay, but I'm disappointed about a lack of larger big-picture thinking. It assumes (instead of questioning) that we will live in cities or often visit cities. The internet economy already decentralized cities by making visiting them less relevant than before, you can work from anywhere. Snowden has given many conference talks without leaving his middle-of-nowhere cabin in Russia.

Even if this vision were true, what about other problems like motion sickness when working (or reading books) in a moving vehicle? That's just one question of many.
There's another aspect to antimicrobial resistance and this article that nobody wants to talk about. Surely it will get downvoted on HN, but it's something to take serious:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221371651...

The problem is that these people were screened upon arrival, at which point they've already been in contact with others.

There's a reason we always screen people applying for visa's before arrival.
An easy way to access a large number of different permutations is to use a cipher and select a particular permutation with the key.

In this sense the AES provides a much larger number of reversible operations than all those listed :)

For 32 bit permutations my go-to is skipfish. It's not a great cipher but it produces permutations (for e.g. producing a random permutation of all IPv4 addresses) perfectly well.
Probably a better practice than commenting here about is:

1. Flag articles you don't want here.

2. Don't participate in discussion of those articles, not even to talk about how you don't want them here.

3. Submit, upvote and comment on things you do want here.

I used to self post my own writing fairly regularly. I mostly have stopped. I don't feel it really goes well even though I posted stuff for a time in part because some people said they wanted to hear from me. I am still trying to figure out what exactly to write about these days, having recently abandoned a bunch of projects.

And I am saying that to try to make the point that what people say they want or don't want in comments seems to have a poor signal to noise ratio. I haven't personally found it to be a reliable indicator of what works on HN.

A much stronger indicator of interest or lack thereof boils down to "voting with your feet" as a means to indicate what isn't wanted here and "voting with your wallet (attention)" as to what is wanted here.

Give attention to things you want here. Starve other things of attention. Even if it doesn't have a notable impact on what appears on the front page, it will positively impact your experience of the site
Most likely it took the form of 'Section 7.5.2 is deleted', and you or I wouldn't have noticed.

However, I will be hunting down the full version of the T&Cs for my account to see what they say now!
It does. Another alternative is that nation states “impart” some of their fiat value because they will potentially subsidize some speculative activity if the whole thing implodes via consumer protections or whatever. The thing that is interesting about Bitcoin is that it holds up a mirror to the largely illusory nature of “value” and money, which are sort of a shared mass illusion anyway. But it’s certainly different than the dollar insofar as fiat currencies are backed up by all of the powers of a state: as you mentioned the power to compel tax payments, and also the power to allow transactions within their borders etc. Fiat money in some sense is an embodiment of the power of the entity that issues it. Bitcoin has no power backing it, so its value, if it has any, has to come from something else.
People are already moving around and getting parked at buildings for the night. What's new is we can now optimise. Among other things for energy consumption. For example, if they're going to travel for a meeting, they could travel while sleeping and be in the morning right at the meeting place. Taking the shortest route while avoiding traffic congestion.
AN AUSSIE’S JOURNEY THROUGH EUROPE: GREECE
Pluralsight has a couple of videos that are ok. But they mostly focus on vba.
It might be true for this part of the world. I certainly believe you.

But the picture was different for the western part, that was taken back by 50 years under the occupation. Modern societies were destroyed by murder and deportations.

There certainly exists some level of nostalgia but the life for an average person is much better if you honestly think about it.

You can actually buy yourself a living place, you can actually buy a car. You actually have an access to proper food and convenience goods (like something elementary like dish washing clots for example). Pair of jeans is not a luxury.

I think that there were certain aspects that provided more securities for the future (if you managed to align yourself with the system) but we know now that it was in fact not sustainable and the security only was an illusion.

The only problem is that the life in the west is still in many aspects so much better.
Is this the New York Times or BuzzFeed?

What a bad title.
Something like this, perhaps?

http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/UB40PGA
Why do I need to be moving around constantly? Where is the office going while I work and then have the gym connect to it? It seems like most people pretty much stay in place. They live in one place and work in another place. They travel between them, but they don't need to move much while they're in one or the other. So what's the point of making my home or my office move and why waste all the energy to move my home from one city to another, when I only really need to move my body and make use of other homes that are already in the place I'm going to?
Some (all?) EU countries say you can't use the word "free" for this type of shenanigans. My employer went through meticulously removing the word "free" and surprise, surprise once you tell customers what the real situation is the flow of new sign ups slows considerably.
>That Blackwallet users routed through a Blackwallet domain to transmit money through the Stellar network (a) made this hack possible and (b) creates a KYC liability.

No, it didn't. For starters, again nothing went "through" blackwallet servers. It's a one way communication of javascript from blackwallet to the user, then the user holds the data and signs transactions and sends it directly to the stellar network. I don't know the internals on how that last step happened, but even if it went back to blackwallet servers, they would be acting as nothing more than a proxy to enable broadcasting this transaction to the network from JavaScript. And if that makes you require KYC laws then verizon is about to have a really bad time because my encrypted credit card transaction went through their servers.

Just like how your relationship with the piggy bank manufacturer ends at point of sale, your relationship with blackwallet ends once you downloaded the JS. They do not hold any currency, they do not have access to any currency, they do not route any currency, they do not have any KYC obligations.
In my experience, a misbehaving linux system that's out of RAM and has swap to spare will be unusably slow. The process of switching to a tty, logging in, and killing whatever the offending process is can easily take a good 15 minutes. Xorg will just freeze. Oh, and hopefully you know what process it is, else good luck running `top`.

Until this is fixed, I'll just keep running my systems with very small amounts of swap (say, 512MB in a system with 16GB of RAM). I'd rather the OOM killer kick in than have to REISUB or hold down the power button.

Some benchmarks with regards to the performance claims would be nice.
Hmm, not sure there's enough data to discern confounding factors and assert monogamy guarantees stable and durable relations. Narrative and history actually suggest otherwise, that the constraint or expectation of monogamy eventually undoes the relationship...
I suppose living in southern Idaho for nine years makes me qualified to answer this :) Many Mormons are very into prepping (preparing for emergencies.)

For example, when I lived in Idaho Falls, many of the Mormons I knew had thick concrete shelters in their basements, massive amounts of dried food prepared, huge jugs of water stored, and regularly did drills with other members of there community. Additionally, Mormon churches are usually pretty visible (plus, they'd probably be willing to take you in) and common enough that it shouldn't be too hard to get to one.