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OTPs are 100% impossible to decrypt in absence of the key material. Mathematically guaranteed.

Of course nobody uses OTPs with harddrives, but people most certainly do/have use OTPs manually.

Furthermore, citing the difference between "few thousand or million years" and "undecryptable by anyone" is unnecessarily pedantic, not to mention wrong. There have been no documented cases of people living more than a few years over one tenth of a thousand years, so such a drive would be undecryptable to anyone.
It's interesting to see all the anecdotes in the reddit discussion about the flight computer. It is variously claimed to be an 8086, to have less power that a pocket calculator or that it could be easily replaced with a more powerful modern computer. I'm puzzled by the fact that nobody in the thread fact-checked these claims.

The shuttle's flight computers are, in fact five IBM AP-101s in a redundant configuration. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AP-101
Yes, but how much of G+ posts were about G+ itself, and does Douglas Hofstadter have an account yet to enjoy that situation?
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This is one article in a row which describes how the recording industry exploits creative persons. It looks like you can't earn much as a musician.

Yet, I see many rappers living in multi-million houses and owning Ferrari's etc, in MTV Cribs. Do they do something different?
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Be careful to get it right, most inventory control systems in the real world depend a lot on regular manual updating. Department managers at Walmart, for example, spend an hour or more every morning updating their "automatic" inventory control system manually. Most labs, however, don't have the manpower to spend a lot of time keeping an inventory up to date, so if your system doesn't do a good job, they will just keep using the current "intermittent updating" system.
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Hope the real change in that value doesn't disappoints us. If I travelled in time from 1970 to today and looked at this site I surely would be disappointed.
Congratulations.

It would be useful if you wrote beside the current figures Tue percentage change on last year.

It also struck me that linking the price to a growth factor may end up overpricing your service leading to a halt in signups. Is this the case or not?
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It would be cool to somehow use a digital scale to track supplies. Each time you weigh a reagent, the scale could enter the amount used into Quartzy.

Come to think of it, using NFC might work really well for logging supplies. Stick a NFC sticker (I bet tagstand would hook you up) on items you want to track.
Does this phenomenon replicate itself in the start-up world? Curious how many first time start-ups fail due to too much cash, to fast with no idea how to spend it appropriately.
Ask HN: Do you make time to read?
I have a big stack of books I'm hoping to read but between my 9-5 and my side projects (plug: http://hoptopus.com) I can't seem to come up with time to read. When I was young I would read before bed (go to bed, read for a while, sleep) but I find that I don't retain any info when I do that.

Interestingly, I can find plenty of time to keep up with Reddit and HN -- probably because it's so convenient given my work. Does anyone have a "system" for this, or some suggestions?
This is interesting. In all discussions on this subject, the comparison to physical keys comes up and the trivial conclusion is that passwords are not protected under the 5th amendment. If combinations to wall safes are protected by the 5th, I'd say the situation is clear cut: a password is exactly like the combination to a safe. You'd have to give up physical tokens required to login/boot a device, but not the subsequent password.

This interpretation is strengthened vastly by the fact that the EFF is arguing this case. They are not known for attempting to argue futile points.
Exactly. The Shuttle is so incredibly ill-suited for that task that I'd wager the ISS would make a better escape vehicle from the Shuttle than the other way around.

Soyuz crafts on the other hand are bloody brilliant at the job. Their modern reentry safety record is unparalleled.
Well, a station wagon full of 32GB MicroSD cards would be even better :)
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I suppose it's hard to get good denominator data for confronting petty thieves. However, most people are very unlikely to kill anybody, ever, and would rather die than kill somebody in self-defense. (See On Killing.) By the numbers, Torontonians are substantially less likely to be cold-blooded killers than the average person.

Now, we had a mafioso living in the apartment downstairs from us for several months, with a couple of warrants out for his arrest. Good buddy with the police who patrol our street. Real friendly guy. Name was Teddy (yes, I know that's not a Spanish name). Stole all the landlord's furniture from the apartment, even the refrigerator. I don't remember what the warrants were for, but there's a substantial chance that he was a cold-blooded killer. But if he'd been on the other side of that table, I still don't think he'd be very likely to try to maintain possession of the stolen laptop by killing you. I'm sure he'd do his best to intimidate the living fuck out of you, maybe threaten to call the police himself, but I don't think he takes violence so lightly that he would stab you with a Starbucks knife in order to keep the laptop.
Given ldar15's assertion that you are not required to give up the combination to a safe, I wouldn't expect a court to be allowed to order the destruction of your property, unless they have strong evidence that something useful may be in the safe. But they usually don't: they want to open it because it may contain evidence. Not because they strongly expect it does.
I really like maciej's writing style. Something about it that creates an instant feeling of rapport and sympathy.
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There is a strange layout error on Patrick's site. When I reach the end of the article, suddenly some kind of overlay pops up, and makes the text unreadable. See http://www.michielovertoom.com/incoming/kalzumeus.png for a screenshot.
Cool! We use something similar for our "shared" blog at dev.aboutus.org. We generate HTML from markdown files via jekyll and it scales really well.
I suspect the content owners are going to get a big load of IP addresses from the ISPs and file a big huge pile of criminal charges or civil lawsuits against the people who the ISPs finger. The ISPs will then pretend to act hurt when the content owners violate this agreement.

Give your internet account to a fine business establishment who doesn't do something as ridiculous as trusting Time Warner or Comcast with confidential customer information.
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> But if AMD were to introduce something purpose-built (eg, with a Matlab-like syntax), then that might compel devs who aren't assembly or GPU gurus to develop against this.

Does anyone know if it's possible to program GPUs today without using a new, special purpose programming language? That would be the killer app for GPUs.

I see your point about most languages not admitting auto-vectorization. But couldn't you take a compilable functional language like Gambit Scheme, Clojure, or Haskell and emit GPU code for constructs like map and fold on numeric vector types?
A better question is why is it in comic sans for you? Do you have a user-defined masochistic stylesheet or something?
This may be related to your issue, but why do you have Comic Sans as your default Safari font ?
You are not author of your own content until you have a Google Profile (Google+)
Half of recipients believe they "have not used a government social program"
His point is that joining as the 20th employee is often an suboptimal position economically. There's a lot of stability in joining a thriving company that's not going to go bankrupt (e.g, Dropbox). There's a lot of financial upside in being an early employee at a company that becomes successful.

Joining as the 20th employee is what Thiel thinks is the worst risk-adjusted financial outcome for an employee -- so what other reasons are you creating for people to join you?
Also, while the devs in the forums were really nice, it seemed like they couldn't just do anything about feature requests or bugs and had to wait for some sort of lordly blessing.

With Maciej it's pretty much drop an email to the mailing list, and if the request is reasonable enough, BAM, it's there!
And potentially malware can watch the clipboard and "paste" things to L.Ron Hubbard knows where, it's not only your roomies that might be looking over your shoulder...
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She might Google for "Angry Birds App Store Download" and hit the second link.
Beating my old score is a win. Beating their scores is not

Ayn Rand wrote: "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
Am I the only one who thinks that the new design colours are somewhat bleached? I would like more contrast.

I also find the "Reading List" from my Blogger account homepage to be useless. If I want to subscribe to a feed, Google Reader is a much better option.
Oh, do not let the font distract you. Comic Sans is my all-time favourite; I use it as a default/standard font on all my machines (Windows, OSX, FreeBSD+KDE, Ubuntu etc...)

You know what they say: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I just find Comic Sans a nice font to read and to program in. It's exquisite rounded shapes are nice on my eyes.
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I think you misinterpreted the headline/article. When it says "Tweets" it means "On Twitter" (i.e. "Tweet" has not become a generic term for sharing a link regardless of platform). So it's saying that 35% of the news links posted to twitter.com had to do with Google+.
Maybe the definitions of "Gifted" and "Gifted Program" have changed a bit in the last 30 years, but this definitely would not have worked on the program I was in.

Back then, there was one gifted classroom per grade for the entire school district, and the kids in it were just plain smart. Little 9 year old me, fresh off being hands down the smartest second grader at Audubon Elementary School, was now just about the dumbest kid in class. I could hang with Math, but the reading and writing they were doing in that 3rd grade classroom put me squarely in the remedial group.

Having regular kids in that classroom would have been pure torture for them, and a drain on the rest of the class. Hell, I was a drain on the class at times, and I'd just scored in the 99th percentile on my entrance exams.

I think it's still probably a good idea to split off kids based on ability. This article seems to be more about giving good teachers to everybody, which is certainly a good idea. It just doesn't have any relevance in a discussion about gifted education.
Firefox. I don't think Safari lets me force fonts on all webpages. Firefox, in contrast, does offer this: uncheck the "Preferences/Content/Advanced/Allow pages to choose their own fonts" option.

Layout of webpages should stay readable and usable even when the user prefers an other font face and/or size than is specified in the stylesheet. For example, my neighbour (85 year old) can't read small fonts anymore, so he pumps them up to 96 pixels or so. You should see the amount of websites breaking at that font size! While there is no reason why, when the layout is done properly everything will size resonably well. He also has the option 'View/Zoom/Zoom Text Only' on, to prevent having to scroll horizontally.
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I disagree. It is entirely possible to have a set of bits the can be 'decrypted' with different keys producing different results. One key might produce a set of cartoon pictures, another might produce financial records. The simple safe analogy seems to break down around this. Only one key unlocks a safe. Every key can be used to decrypt something that is encrypted, but unlike a safe, its not guaranteed what goes in comes out. I would argue that the data only exists if it can be read and that providing a mechanism for reading the data is establishing the existence of the data.
Have fun re-entering on the ISS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab#Re-entry
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Comcast customer service has a resemblance to retail shopping in the old Soviet Union. Ohh... you think it can't possibly be that bad. You get stuck having to take your cable box to a Comcast customer service center. You'll see.
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Thanks for the tip. There is also the Readability AddOn (http://www.readability.com/addons) but that somehow hides the comments at the bottom of the article. iReader does not.
I'm curious. If you are interested and want to know the answer, why didn't you upvote the question?
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I dono. I have a family member (a database interface programmer) who insisted that virus writers are somehow being paid by the anti-virus companies, back in the boot sector virus days. I mean, his logic said, who would go through all that effort for free, and who benefits?
Really? On what basis do you say AMD has always had better talent? 386 and 486 were Introduced by Intel, not AMD. Not to mention Core, USB and other history found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel
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I dislike these boxes that slide into view when you reach the end of an article. It distracts the eye from the text, like any moving thing or animated GIF on the page. Just some static text below the article would be better, like 'Read other articles: ABC, DEF, XYZ' and perhaps some static tweet/facebook button.
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People might have that misconception due to hearing about the Apollo flight and guidance computers, which were pretty janky. They had a really difficult to use interface, and used core-rope memory[1] that was woven together by old ladies.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory
And for Safari, use NinjaKit with the Google Bar Classic script
O_o

Do not let the font distract you Not so easy.

You're just trolling me now right? I guess… I mean… agh. OK. Sure…

I've never thought it a particularly ugly font, I just always thought it was overused and often used in the wrong contexts. I can't imagine programming in it.
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Wait, what? The "color burst" is only relevant to analog television signals. It hasn't been used in computers since we switched away from TV monitors in the late 1980s. It's definitely not present in today's computers outside a few video-out circuits (not even VGA, only composite / S-Video output).
My favorite is world map code by Brian Westley
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main(l
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BTW, how to convert C to JavaScript?
That portion of my comment was very obviously tongue in cheek.
"Janky"? You're right, they should have used Ruby on Rails. And, ermm, AJAX 2.0.

I'm sick of people slamming old tech with 50 years of hindsight. They were the smartest people in the world doing the best work they could with what they had available to them. And that's what they came up with - and it got the job done.
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I've had complete strangers on the the street tell me to my face that I was ugly. That's life. Oh well. Rude-ass Bug reports are better than no bug reports.

Emotion 101: When people are pissed they curse. I agree with you, it would be beneficial for them not to but they do. I have a feeling a lot of the people who don't tolerate his language have never worked in customer service or with the public. Emotion happens, a LOT, learn to ignore it. Don't want to deal with it? Write a greasemonkey script that changes all the language you don't like into encouraging statements.

All the programmers I know are very logical, stable people and it seems as a whole they're not used to erratic emotional behavior that people in customer service are used to seeing.
There's a litte more information in this submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2745270

The lunk to paper in this one seems no longer to exist, and it's very derivative, so go read that one instead.
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This sort-of duplicates my earlier submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2745248

Now I've been hunting around to try to find out more since the paper seems to have vanished, and this is the best I've found.

If you're interested, good hunting! Come back and show us what you find.

Here are some more:

* http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July11/microCam.html

* http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=pix...

* http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2011929/Micro...

As far as I can tell, the actual paper:

* http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/upcoming_pdf.cfm?id=147442
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Something to keep in mind: in gnome-terminal, Shift-Insert uses the active selection clipboard, while Ctrl-Shift-V uses the copy/paste clipboard.
For most people, this is absolutely the most self-destructive advice possible, since they have not learnt how to foster a love for things that meet either their needs or wants - which is something that you fortunately learnt early on, the easy way, at 15.

This is one reason people should be allowed to spend their childhoods doing what they love rather than following someone else's curriculum for them. By the time they have to fend for themselves, they'll have a chance at having found something they love and which pays the bills.
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So... what happens when your database gets corrupted/your hard drive fails/laptop gets stolen? How are you going to connect to all of your everythings?

Alternatively, what happens when you want to transition away from KeepassX and to another, better, more advanced password manager? Or away from password managers all together?

There are so many meta-problems to deal with when using password managers, I think in the long run they might be more trouble than they're worth.
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Noisy neighbour is stopping me coding and sleeping 
I've moved into a new apartment and have an issue that I hope the folks on here can help me with. I have an extremely noisy neighbour that I presume is from India or Pakistan. He shouts at his wife nearly all day - everyday and stops me coding because it's so god-dam annoying. His big booming voice is waking me up early too after coding until 3am. Do I confront him or drop an anonymous letter through his door? I don't want to create a war with my neighbour as it could lead to years of misery, although I have to say I'm pretty tired and miserable now. I need a quiet environment to work and this is killing me - perhaps my fellow hackers can help out.
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Don't confuse underfunded with badly managed. NASA has spent hundreds of billions of dollars on manned spaceflight in the last 5 decades, they went to the moon, they built two space stations, but ultimately they haven't done much to push the state of the art or to make spaceflight more accessible or affordable.

In contrast, a little company like SpaceX comes along and develops two new launch vehicles AND a crew capsule for about $300 million total, dramatically lowering launch costs in the process. This is how we'll increase that number. Not by pumping more money into yet another aerospace jobs program in key congressional districts, but by encouraging the open market and innovation.
a password is exactly like the combination to a safe

I disagree. A safe is a physical object that contains other physical objects. It can be forcefully open.

OK, maybe there are some very sophisticated safes that would act exactly like a password, not allowing to extract the objects inside without damaging them beyond recognition.

But I'd say it's the exception. Possibly helped by the safe manufacturers, the police will eventually access the contents of most safes.

This situation creates a different set of incentives. You can open your safe as soon as the judge requests it, or you can wait to be punished for refusing and the safe be opened forecefully later... that will uncover what you were hiding anyway.

Edit: I'd like to add that the punishment for not telling the password is a very, very, very bad idea. It's impossible to produce a password that you don't know. It's impossible to demonstrate that you don't know a password. It's impossible to demonstrate that a file is just a pile of random garbage instead of an encrypted one. Setting a punishment for things that are impossible to objectively know doesn't seem a good idea.
No, I'm not trolling. I agree with you that Comic Sans is often used in wrong contexts (although the situation is becoming better).

It's not wrong for programming either, in my opinion, see http://www.michielovertoom.com/incoming/comic-sans-python.jp... for an example. I dislike monospaced fonts for programming, and with that I'm in the minority.

For games Comic Sans is also great, see http://www.michielovertoom.com/incoming/wow-Luyt-of-Khadgar-...
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you should read Armin's other posts about Python and webdev, if you haven't already:

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/tags/python/