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>But the core fact of a respected institute of education having any relationship with organizations rooted in sociopolitical elitism (with an attendant history of discrimination) that serve no benefit to the institution or the public remains

Isn't the very notion of an Ivy league university "rooted in sociopolitical elitism"?

And doesn't it serve major "benefit to the institution"? That's its target group, and they want prospective students to know they can enter that elite themselves.

And if there's a secret society you can aspire to get in of students and alumni promoting each other and handing out favors, even better.

They should write it in their ads!
Based on the success of private MRI clinics, I would say the demand is quite high for selective procedures. Either procedures that are relatively cheap but have very long wait times or procedures where patients are willing to pony up for expertise (joint surgery).
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> a judge

Thats the problem here. Computers (smartphone/laptop/server/toaster/etc) are/will continue to hold most intimate and private data about a individual. Do you want all that disclosed on one person's word ? I dont. I dont think there can be any check-and-balance that absolutely prevent any person from giving a malicious order. One bad disclose order can be enough to ruin a life. Is that jurisdiction willing to be liable for the compensation (if compensation is even possible) ?

I believe Internet is a country of its own. Its a virtual world, it has no physical manifestation. There is no need to invade Internet to secure physical world.
No, it's because all of the big chat applications are hosted in the US and this is a completely unacceptable country to have any data in.
You can add a "source" tag to changesets. But if someone doesn't want to use that, they can just turn it off.
OpenStreetMap has a lot of things left to map. Sometimes, some correct data is better than no data.
Its a circular worldview, with elements of competition. That can be found in any fitness-center.

Why do you build your body?
> Because i want to be the best version of myself.
Why do you want to be the best version?
> So all the other gymn-members can see.
Why do all the other gym-members need to see?
> Because they are building that body too.

Its really sort of depressing. People with all that potential to do interesting things, and most are stuck in the circular thought that got them there.
even if staged, the video was still hell of a fun to watch
TBH at this point I have more trust in a centralized cryptocurrency backed by a large corporation than in a decentralized one.
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For the benefit of others who could learn from this experience, rake the coals.
I wonder how long it will be before airports need to run point-defence lasers to interdict things like this.
I stopped reading after reading a thread of grown men throw hissy fits because they thought they were screwed over by their $300k salary when they felt they “deserved” $400k+
Its also self-referential- notice how purer the capitalism process is considered, the farer detached from actual goods it is.

You have some fractal fleas sitting upon each other at wallstreet, convincing all the other intelligent beeings, that this is the way to life your life- and any other approach is bogus.
Fun to watch and a great build. Being one of the people who have loads of packets snatched by random bypassers due to shitty routines from parcel companies, it sucks to hear there are elements faked. Never the less, a nice build. If i can get the stl,I should rebuild it, and replace the spray with pepper-spray and proper spray-paint.
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Plenty of reasons to believe that this wouldn't work !== worth trying
Ah yes, the distinctive, never seen before, rounded corner rectangle. A marvel of ingenuity, creativity, and geometric composition.
Weird cell call that seems impossible
1. Called my girlfriend and heard an echo on the line, of my own voice.

2. She asked "why...", I said, "why did she do that?" After a brief moment, the echo said succinctly "Why?" in a voice very much like my own. In other words, the echo voice heard what I asked and rephrased it into a single-word question.

3. My girlfriend said "no, I asked how" and I started to explain that I just heard a weird voice...

4. We both heard someone say, "hello?" in the middle of this.

This actually just happened. I'm on Verizon and she's on AT&T. It doesn't seem like this could possibly be RF interference, someone had to have decrypted the call and be literally choosing what audio packets to forward or not forward, or replace, in realtime. Right?

So let's talk next steps. Call the FBI and request my file? Get in touch with the NSA? Consider it a random hacker somewhere?

This feels like a major security breach at some level. The only way I can account for it is someone listening and man-in-the-middling phone conversations in realtime. Thoughts, please.
Just a note here, actually Fedora/RISC-V are hosting their release builds on qemu.
If you have a serious sustained DDoS (40+Gbps as mentioned in the affidavit), most ISPs will first null route you, and then attempt to terminate your contact. I leave it up to you to draw the parallel with the corresponding landlord's actions.
now this is the 2018 I know and love
This makes me wonder, what else did NASA engineers stage?
Well, if everyone is probably compromised, then naming companies who just happen to be known to be compromised could arguably put them at an unfair disadvantage.
My mom in California has been buying hemp seeds for the past couple years at the local health food store, so I'd say no.
A Raspberry Pi can run Snips. I don't know how long it takes to train or how well it works.
The same way as Red Hat.

I still encounter version 5 in production.
You're mainly talking about the progressive shutdown?

I think it makes perfect sense. It makes teams that didn't get the shutdown notice aware of it in an acute way and encourages them to take action without putting them on the spot.
I read it for a few days and then had to uninstall. It has an astoundingly horrible user base.
For those interested in learning more about CBD use: https://www.projectcbd.org

(I'm not affiliated)

I suffered with seasonal hayfever for 25 years. Cured it completely with CBD this year. Was inspired to try it after I cured my cats seasonal asthma with a tiny CBD dose. It was so effective on me I thought the season hadn't started till it was over. Weirdly effective.

I've been a huge skeptic of medicinal marijuana. I am now a convert and I think CBD in particular is an exciting area.

Sounds like the headline above may not be entirely accurate. But we will get there.

In Washington state the FDA came after CBD manufacturers for making miracle cure claims. As part of the investigation they tested various products. Turns out many had little or no CBD. The industry is rife with snake oil salesmen. But in states where it is legal you have the benefit of accurate lab testing with results published on the packaging.

Source for CBD related warning letters from FDA. The WA cases were 2015. https://www.fda.gov/newsevents/publichealthfocus/ucm484109.h...
That's the Mapbox way. /s
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Voyager leaving the solar system. It actually hit a wall.
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I don't think tubes will help much for synthesising a trumpet. You can get pretty good results with physical modeling, though. https://youtu.be/nRkT2PyH3kg
Innovation has always been trowing money in pipes dream, because by definition everything that does not exist is an idea, a dream.

Most ideas fail. The people that spend their lives doing something are the people that create worthy things in the end, because they learn from failures.

"The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried."

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." - Niels Bohr

There is this delusion coming from academics education that successful people are those that never fail. This is true in Academics, where all the knowledge is already known. But for a researcher or innovator you need to fail.

Even when most projects fail, those who do not gives enormous rewards.
Well the thing is that many of the cost-lowerings are so unpredictable, all over the map and inevitable that assigning morality to it seems as futile and nonsensical as trying to decide if squares or circles are more moral.

People always say in retrospect about new technology 'they shouldn't have done this because I don't like the outcome' but how could they have known ahead of time and what would not doing it get them? There are very few cases when they really should have known better - leaded gasoline for instance.
So we're gonna take the word of a couple armchair detectives over an actual NASA engineer who worked on Curiosity? I'm sorry, but no. He also does openly admit that 1-2 of the reactions, after further inspection, could've been faked, but those were the ones submitted by his neighbor, which he claims he didn't know were faked, and he has since removed from the video.

To claim that the whole thing was faked is not only misleading, but also insulting. I know Buzzfeed loves clickbait titles, but I hoped better from HackerNews.
>How do people use it...?

You don’t. It’s a baked in reminder that logging into a container is a sin worthy of punishment.
I miss the time when I didn't have Internet connection, mobile phone, and had no one to distract me for 8 hours per day. I didn't have anything important to work on since I was a kid, but I remember I was able to concentrate on things for much longer and it was more enjoyable. I didn't have to exert any will power since I didn't have a lot of alternatives with regards to what to do with the computer and that simple stuff I was doing was providing enough of dopamine to keep me hooked. After reflecting back on that time, I'm starting to appreciate good old printed books, simple audio player that isn't connected to any kind of streaming service, offline documentation for libraries that make it possible to do some work without internet. There is something special about those hours of disconnect.
Its sad that they're still hauling all that fuel on rail instead of using pipelines, which are much safer. Stopping the keystone pipeline and other pipelines has made us less safe.
Visual Studio has a C# REPL sice version 2015.

Then there are Xamarin Workbooks, like Swift playgrounds but for .NET.
Ask HN: Who will pay for flaws in government web portals?
A lot of corporate organizations have bug bounty programs these days and we have seen the number of flaws being discovered under and outside those programs. But not many governments have a bug bounty program and some do not even have a responsible disclosure program (unpaid). Over past few months I have done some research and found various flaws in different public government portals. I am quite sure there are markets where flaws like this get sold to the bad actors since there does not appear to be a legal way to get reward/recognition for these. What do you think ?
Example:US DoD vulnerability disclosure program: https://hackerone.com/deptofdefense (no bounty)
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This is somewhat excessive. There are still valid use cases where Virtualbox comes for free - private users or professional users/companies with a relatively small number of workstations (Oracle's going after companies who use a large number of unlicensed installations).

Also, it is still possible to build a free extension pack; it would be a great project. After all, Virtualbox is GPL, and it shouldn't be underestimated the amount of work that has been, and is being, put into it.
WTH is this doing on HN home page? Please flag. Let's not turn into buzzfeed.
n00b question: Does this make Marijuana legal as well or just hemp?
I schedule in 5 mins when my alarm goes off to read reddit. For me, doing this extremely useful as my brain spins up and I feel like I do not want to go back to sleep.
The interface seems very responsive, but what makes it "fast"?
Both of your comments to this site now hint at conspiracy theories about a moon landing hoax. Your other comment was flagged but this one has not been.

Please do not spread conspiracy theories like this on Hacker News.
And the evidence that it's the neighbours aren't exactly damning. I would expect it to be someone from close by snatching packages.
> so what you are saying is that he should have catered to you instead of his intended audience

I said precisely the opposite - that it's down to the designer's intent.
Whatever the definition of trade dress, don't you think it matters that it's likely to be stolen? I'd think that would be the first constraint.
If you're talking about NIST, they've initiated the process to standardise post-quantum public key crypto:
https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Post-Quantum-Cryptography/Pos...

Round 1 submissions were received by November 2017:
https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Post-Quantum-Cryptography/Rou...
But you can’t force others to provide you more meat free options. You also can’t force societies values to change around you. I think the parent comment is more talking about accomodating the world around rather than expecting it to accomodate you.
My sister works there six months of every year. She's been doing it for about a decade.
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They are grounded with a precise length of coax (multiples of 1/4 or 1/2 wave, IIRC) to keep the VSWR ratio low for the intended frequency. In a pole you can get to do that by probing the signal at certain height, but the active part of a patch antenna (which I assume a manhole works as) is at the extremes of it (as such, probes are always off center for circular polarization, and at the extreme for linear), and those are grounded. Patch antennas are normally grounded at the center, as the voltage/current there should be close enough to 0 anyway unless there's an electrostatic discharge.
Neither, and I never said they were false (although they could be, there's no way to tell). I very clearly stated that it's still possible to paint a misleading picture of something only using facts. The key point here is that it's not the full picture, and some facts, without the proper context, sound very different.
And Barbara Kruger is getting nothing for this?
Alembic looks interesting, I currently use Django where I can for version controlling database changes but it’s not ideal. I really want a terraform type tool.
I vaguely remember that the VA Linux computers were quite inexpensive but basically unusable due to software problems. Another nail in the Linux desktop coffin.
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A centralized cryptocurrency is just digital currency. It may be cryptographically secured against unauthorized transfers/access, but if it doesn't employ some sort of game-theory based custodial sharing scheme which is intended to incentivize decentralization of control (successfully our not), it's not using the 'crypto' protection in the special sense that cryptocurrency implies.
> When it comes to ocean cleaning, technological solutions are very attractive, because the population likes to think that they push a button, lay on a sofa, and the oceans get cleaned.

Please don't dismiss that. Here's a simple fact about humanity: the more people you need ask for something, the less likely it is that it's going to happen. Coordinating humans at scale is one of the hardest social problems[0]. Technological solutions are attractive precisely because they sidestep the need to get everyone on board.

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[0] - I'm inclined to believe that it's actually the hardest social problem, the root of all other problems.
>I can type everything I'd issue as a voice command into my home screen. I have to install and learn just as few/many things and commands as I'd have to using voice recognition. Op might have underplayed something, you just made things up.

You are not the market that these are targeted at then. The normal person cannot do those things.
Intellectual property isn't always about something never seen before, ever, in any application, but about something never seen before in that application. Wipers were famously pateted twice, for ships and for cars. I could see an argument that applying the rounded corner rectange to smartphones is novel so it deserves protection.
They’re already sending the data to the NSA. The least they could do would be to block these unending spam calls.
That's a nice theory - but computers exist in the real world. I have a sticker on the back of my laptop from our NYI datacentre which says "there is no cloud, it's just somebody else's computer".

There's also no check and balance the absolutely prevents somebody punching me in the face and ruining my life, but I still walk down busy streets.

If you have a problem with the concept of judges as the arbiter of limits on the powers of law enforcement, I am keen to hear your workable alternative that doesn't have worse downsides.
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I'd say Russians smile plenty- among trusted friends and family. If a stranger walks up to you smiling, it's pretty much universally seen as someone trying to pull a fast one on you at best.

Speaking of Russians and smiling, I got to go the McDonald's in Red Square shortly after it opened. The culture clash of the Russian staff being told that they must smile to their customers made for some great people watching.
i read through that pretty effortlessly. the person writes pretty well.
Dead link when I click on the logo at https://nhsuk.github.io/nhsuk-frontend/ - Please fix.
That doesn't make sense any more than thinking they can somehow ban encryption when their economy is dependent upon it. Even China with its efforts so overkill that it does the opposite of its job by making it incredibly obvious something is going on when words start getting randomly censored like censoring 'Shanghai stock market' after it ended on a number that was a very coded reference to June 4th, 1989 aka Tienanmen square.
Thanks for linking this, that’s an interesting article. I was not aware of the link between beach cleanup and gyre cleanup.

I guess my general perspective is that:

1. I am not arguing that slats solution is the best solution or the only solution. I think that if it drives awareness of the issue and eventually leads us to a better solution, then it’s a success in a backwards kind of way, even if it doesn’t “succeed”

2. Concerns about its potential harm I think are a bit overblown. In real terms, what are we talking about in terms of bycatch and how does that compare percentage wise to “bycatch” from other human activities? (Shipping, commercial fishing, coastal development, climate change?). The impacts from those things are huge, so I doubt that this system is really going to make that big of an impact comparatively.

3. Complaints about the money that could have gone to other better things are also a bit invalid. I’m willing to bet that most of that 20 mil would not have gone to other solutions anyway. So it’s not taking money from other things in reality.
Why? "Hmm, why don't I cook this piece of meat for twice as long as the recipe says. There's plenty of reasons to believe that this wouldn't work, but it's still worth trying because... because...?"
This kinda makes me hope there's not a good ending and everyone dies because they couldn't get their shit together. I didn't like the last season (which advances beyond the books) because it was getting all too idk, tropey.

Glad it's not positioned as a warning - 1984 and Brave New World are both happening as we speak despite the warnings.
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EDIT: note that I'm probably wrong, see reply below by @brongondwana!

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One problem not being addressed is that via #AABill data access requests can now be submitting without warrants issued by a judge, so it removes the judicial oversight.

Also this law says that all such requests need to be "reasonable", but it doesn't define what that means. For example is blanket surveillance reasonable? AFAIK this law doesn't say. And companies like FastMail cannot report abuse publicly, or the people responsible risk 10 years in jail.

Couple this with the fact that Australia is part of the "Five Eyes", being the only country without a "Bill of Rights", it means that agencies like the NSA could use Australia for their dirty work.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't read the actual bill, just random commentary on the net.

I'm a FastMail customer, but reading this blog article is leaving me worried, because FastMail keeps mentioning "lawful warrants", but from what I've read warrants aren't needed anymore.

It's pretty sad. I've seen many Australian software companies doing a good job, like FastMail here and their reputation is now tarnished due to incompetent politicians. The wave of populism and stupidity has been spreading.
Selling data is a one-time occurrence

This is not necessarily true. Depending on the deal you make with address brokers you more often than not hire specific addresses for one time use. You are not allowed to reuse them for multiple mailings without paying additional fees.

In order to enforce this address brokers seed the data with control addresses.

Carefully curated address lists (say, something like C level managers with an income > 500K $, for example) are expensive, even for one time use.

If an address broker outright sells addresses those are usually of very low quality.
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Wow, people using 512 bit keysizes in 2018??

Back in 2014 I got the recommendation to ditch 2048 in favor of 4096.
Now you're just being lewd.
We've never wanted to be an end-to-end encrypted service provider - there's purely routing blobs of opaque data around. It's not an interesting problem, and it's at direct odds with "email is your electronic memory".

https://fastmail.blog/2018/02/14/email-is-your-electronic-me...

End-to-end encryption is great for "this message will self destruct in 5 seconds" type instant messaging, but I have a friend who recently forgot her password on an "end-to-end encrypted" email service and lost all her emails. Not a great choice, though luckily she hadn't been using it long, so she didn't lose many memories.

An extreme black-and-white view on confidentiality vs the other parts of security is poor threat modeling, and we especially don't like the idea of selling snakeoil where we claim a level of confidentiality from ourselves which is not supportable by facts.
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I don’t recommend going down this road. As you grow older you may regret it.

Working can be rewarding. The rat race sucks but getting older you may want a family and reasonable income is really important for a family.

Maybe there is a way you can participate in the economy without being so unhappy about it?
Why can't they just use a good old database, to record transactions? It is a centralized system! I guess Facebook trusts itself!
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If Facebook becomes a bank, they will be required to comply with fincen. E2E encryption is not going to fly.
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Oh for sure, people will keep comparing themselves to others. 9M is still not "fuck you" money, it'll buy you a Lamborghini but not a classic car collection and the means to store, maintain and secure it. For example.
Huh... do I need to configure it to use edge? I seem to recall not seeing it in the package manager.