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I will just say that if you believe in God and miracles then you don't need an alternative explanation for [anything]

Not at all. Here's a crude thought experiment: suppose you believed in a God who performed confirmed miracles, but who had only performed two or three in recorded history. Now suppose you lost your wallet and spent five minutes looking for it, without success. Would it be rationally responsible, at that point, to ascribe its disappearance to divine intervention?

How long and how hard would you have to look before that even made it onto the list of hypotheses?

Just because God can do anything doesn't mean that's always a good explanation.

In fact, to a naive observer, secularists are kind of in the same boat. Bear with me for a moment:

There's an intelligent design argument that says the laws of physics for this universe are extremely fine-tuned; change any number of physical constants by even a small amount, and the universe never develops stars.

The response to that goes, this is just the one universe we can see; there may be many others with different constants. And while this particular setup might be improbable, it's what we have to see in order to be here.

The response to that goes, if you can go invoking a practically infinite number of unseen universes, what's the point of trying to explain anything? Invoke a few more universes, and you could write anything off as chance.

And the response to that goes, roughly, well, you don't want to ascribe things to once-in-a-multiverse events unless you've looked really hard first (like we have with the cosmology stuff).

See? We're kind of in the same boat.

The reality--getting back to miracles--isn't anything like that simple; there is a great diversity of opinion in Christendom about how often God performs miracles, and when, and how you can tell he's done it. But as far as I can tell, they agree on two things: (1) The miracle has to make theological sense (there's usually an obvious reason for it), and (2) It doesn't happen anything like often enough to threaten the effectiveness of science.

Though there are folks who will claim God could have created dinosaur fossils just to test our faith, this is very much a fringe view. Most theologians would be very uncomfortable with the idea that God has behaved in a scientifically deceptive way. Quite the opposite; the entire well-accepted realm of natural theology is based on the idea that God has set up the world to make sense and to be investigated and even to teach us things. If there were evidence to the contrary, it would be profoundly upsetting for a lot of scholars.
Why would an incognito window prevent them from customizing results based on your IP?
Have you visited them lately?

Their creation process is now on par with github and others.

They got rid of the ads. Also I have adblockers installed. If you/your audience are the type frequenting HN and working on code by and large, you'll also have some kind of adblocker installed on the browsers? Aren't ads a non-issue under these circumstances?

>> Third, I don't care about binary hosting.

If you read this earlier thread, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4907830 you'll find binary uploads are a very much a relevant and needed option to many others.

>> And finally, SF only hosts open source projects

Doesn't that contradict what you mentioned earlier?

>> I don't have any popular projects, but I like that the few who are interested

i.e., you are actually interested in collaborating (a la open source) on your projects? So technically your repos are open in the first place?

Anyway I understand that this is a personal choice you made.
Ok, has anyone tried selecting the text on that blog? The effect made me feel as though I was drunk. Why does it do that?
I like Derek Sivers's personal website. It is clean, easy-to-read, and has good spacing.

http://sivers.org/
Why do they look almost computer generated? Just curious.
We did which is why we felt we had no choice but to refund if we could not support it.
Man of Steel - Official Trailer #2 [HD]
If you are on Windows, you can try SmoothVideo Project:

http://www.svp-team.com/

It's just interpolated 60 fps from regular frame rate movies but it works pretty well (it needs decent GPU for high-def videos).

I use it already for quite some time. Once you get pass the initial weirdness there is kinda no way back, 24 fps movies just feel broken.

It's similar to how computer games feel bad on underpowered graphics card, you do notice choppiness of 24 fps and it is pretty distracting.

BTW I did see Hobbit in 48 fps and it just felt "normal". So I suppose most of people complaining about 48 fps Hobbit just didn't get used to high frame rates yet (I expect for many it was their first experience). For me it took me few weeks for "soap opera effect" to wear off.
Incidentally, apparently people complain about the online versions of the game providing a land distribution that's "too even".

Online bridge has a similar problem. Four riffle shuffles (which does not fully randomize hands) is typical in bridge games, and this means that long suits (and, thus, better hands) are more common. Early online bridge games randomized hands fully and therefore delivered crappier (flatter) hands than people were typically used to.

between the fact that you can decide whether or not to begin with a certain opening hand and the fact that you can design your deck around such circumstances (mana fixing, proper distribution of card costs), it's far more fun than the alternative.

When I played (mid-90s) a lot of those options didn't exist. There weren't mulligans unless you had no land. With one, you had to play it. Also, a lot of the newer mana sources didn't exist. If you drew only 2 lands in your first 10 cards, you were screwed, but you couldn't develop an interesting deck with more than 22 land.
Have you visited them lately?

Their UX/sign-in etc., is now on par with github and others.

They got rid of the ads also. Also I have adblockers installed. If you/your audience are the type frequenting HN and working on code by and large, you'll also have some kind of adblocker installed on the browsers? Aren't ads a non-issue under these circumstances?

>> When I see a project on SourceForge I assume it's over 10 years old and unmaintained

Hmmm.. I don't even know where or how to address that strong an opinion (I'm not even sure I want to, TBH). Let's just say, that's not a correct statement.

P.S: Github (blog) also carries job ads on the sides, so does SO. At times, ads are a necessary evil of the internet ecosystem, specially when it comes to (largely) free services
What's way worse is losing the trust of their advertisers over the long term. I'm not going to buy views on Youtube if I don't trust the platform, so steps like this make me more willing to spend.
Bret Victor's http://worrydream.com. While the design is interesting, the content is killer.
doit.im works perfectly with GTD methodology.
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> pea-shooter based comet defense system?

I'm pretty sure the state of art of this field is deep core drilling (as of 1998, anyway)
> Virtually EVERYBODY wants a dumb pipe delivering commodified data. People will pay for bandwidth (high or low) and latency (short or long). The market can price each according to demand and the constraints of available technology. And providers, being utilities, should be able to count on a low but rock solid margin of profit.

True on the logical level, false on the human level.

If carriers became just & only that, providing dumb pipe service for a flat monthly rate, things might well be better overall.

Unfortunately it's hard to lobby the public on a coherent dream. Sure, many people who think much about the market may agree, but all the staff at all the carrier phone shops, and their families, will campaign against you. As will all the bribery dollars of the telecoms companies.

You'd be shot down in flames for trying to regulate this. Congressman in narrow districts would get warned off by angry potential voters, the mass public would be advertised into uncertainty, etc.
I'd imagine most people able to afford a private jet (or to let a friend borrow it or whatever) can similarly afford some sort of valet service. That, or maybe there's some sort of parking space right by (or even inside?) the hangar for the private jet where you could leave the car. I'm a bit curious now too as to standard protocol on it.
> where it K-pop gained popularity as a credible alternative to Western entertainment, which may be too sexualized for the socially conservative sensibilities in those countries.

I doubt that's the reason: K-pop is pretty sexualized. It's also very big on objectifying women and enforcing unrealistic expectations of beauty.
When should software firms outsource versus insource?
> I wouldn't recommend it for someone who's never touched *nix before,

But shouldn't that be the target audience of a "Learn to"-style guide?
>> GitHub is for the people who are as interested in the code as they are in the software itself.

I'd argue that it is the same for SF as well. Like I mentioned with the Adobe brackets example, based on the nature of the project, a download might be a first choice to test the waters. SF is largely Java/C++/etc., centric (as opposed to RoR or javascript projects) so the installer is the first place to go, to test the tool in the first place. See another reply that echoes this sentiment... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4908007

>> If the majority of a project's end users are only interested in grabbing the binary, [...snip...] I'd guess the majority of the projects on GitHub aren't at that level, though.

Have you seen this recent thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4907830
You'll find binary uploads are a very much a relevant and needed option to many others even within the github 'ecosystem'.
When I first read about FDW implementations in Postgres, I was extremely excited. I've played with them quite a bit, and while I still think they are cool...they've got an extremely long way to go before I can see them as anything more than a kludgy hack.
I wonder outside of TV, how many crimes are prevented by tracing guns?

At some point we have to trust our fellow man to use good judgement. Every day I drive past cars going the other way at a combined speed > 60mph and the only thing protecting me is a couple of lines painted on the road.
Just noting that based on the valuation of the company he is a billionaire, but GoPro is still a privately held business, so he [probably] doesn't have that sort of money on hand or available as short/safe investments.

Kind of standard for most billionaires (or even millionaires) no?
Any plans for Linux support? Does the Windows 7 executable work well under Wine?
Thanks Kyro, it's great to see what another mind things about our site.
I always thought ADD was an assembly language instruction.
Microsoft goes for the gimmick
I would disagree. Although some entertainers have been pushing the limits in the last year or two, on the whole, things are quite restrained.

> It's also very big on objectifying women and enforcing unrealistic expectations of beauty.

This is not exactly the same thing as blatant visual sexualization, as seen in American entertainment. However, it is definitely an issue with K-pop and South Korean society in general.
You will need the following three advisors; a lawyer to tell you how to structure it, an insurance broker to help you manage your risk, and a tax accountant to make sure that you are keeping track of the money in a way that the IRS deems acceptable.

Depending on the state you are operating in, you may need to file for a money transmitter license. And yo and your advisors will need to go through http://www.fincen.gov/financial_institutions/msb/index.html
and determine which, if any of the declarations you need to file and what compliance policies your organization needs to put in place.

You'll also need to ensure that you have enough working capital to cover potential withdrawals, and remember that you will have to keep the funds segregated from the rest of your organizations business.

Oh, and your insurance broker will have to figure out how best to insure you against all the normal risks that face a bank.
Scan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anthropogenic_...

The crusades are probably smaller, both in absolute terms and as a proportion of world population, than you realized.

I'm not sure how many of those events you can officially put down to atheism, but the death toll from officially atheist states alone--e.g., the USSR--are pretty bad. My reading is that religiously motivated manmade disasters are a blip compared to the secularly motivated ones. Your reading may vary, though. :)
This means you have to extend your concepts of brute-force and guessing to include determining which cleartext message is the correct one. If the message is that short, then indeed there is no way to determine from the message alone. Yet even this example gives us tons of info -- we know the attack won't come near midday or midnight, so we only have 2 times to prepare for an attack. This isn't as good as knowing exactly when, but it's better than having no idea of when.

This feels like a skill used by those who guess on tests.
What is this obsession with to-do list apps?
Thank you - you solidified my own thinking as a GTD practitioner. I think the last paragraph is essential. What GTD has done for me is mechanize the rote, bureaucratic aspects of life and work, which leaves more time and an uncluttered mind to haphazardly pursue creative, open-ended tasks.
I can't tell if you're trolling or not. In case you aren't, a uniform distribution isn't "uniform" in the sense of the above quotation. You're right that it's not less random, but someone looking at draws from a uniform distribution would normally describe it as "clumpy"; hence the article.
Is this really the most common style? It seems to me that this is more common:

doAsyncCall(function onSuccess(result) {
// do things
}, function onError(err) {
// No need to check, it's really an error.
});

This is much cleaner and lets you reuse error handling functions.
Clever, but it seems to me that might only coarsely reveal some global service my DNS server falls back to, NOT the server my local machine consults first.

Is this technique, including running your own authoritative DNS server and remembering every unique lookup, commonly used to geolocalize individual web visitors? Or do servers more often just look up the originating IP? My conjecture is that the latter dominates.
people have two very different mechanisms for making decisions. one is fast and heuristic, the other slow and logical. they are described in great detail in the book "thinking fast and slow" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow

the reason for the discrepancy between emotion and logic reported by the person you're talking to (and more or less anyone who's not incredibly autistic) is because emotional responses tend to be connected to the first (fast, unreliable) mechanism which picks up on things like apparent injustice (but ignores, for example, calculations based on supply and demand).

so it's quite normal to feel something that is at odds with what you would logically expect.
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> I cringe when I hear people say this. It works in speech to the extent that "irregardless" or "I could care less" are acceptable.

I'm not sure where you're from, but in Yorkshire you'd end up saying such things yourself before long. What matters is comprehension, and whilst writing to an audience means you need to ensure clarity, the same concerns are less applicable to chatting to a lifelong friend.
Ask HN: What are some SAAS apps with inspirational UI/UX?
Also, is there any website that showcase SAAS app designs?
You're going to have to build your own magnetic stripe readers and writers and encode the cards. Then figure out some software to make it work.

To get you started: http://hackmiami.org/2008/12/21/magnetic-stripe-card-reader/

http://stripesnoop.sourceforge.net/ (may be dead)

http://flashingleds.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/magnetic-swipe-...
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I'm not sure where you're getting an infinite number of inputs. The way I understand one-time pads, based on a skim of the wiki article you linked, is that you're taking two strings of letters, one is your message, the other is a random, one-time string, adding them, and taking the modulus of 26.

Where else do we have 2 mixed streams of information? Music. Optics. So we take the input and reverse the mod26, one step at a time, basically creating an array of "demodulated" input values, then I feel as though we should be able to do a Fourier analysis to separate the 2 strings of numbers.
Trulia has commute-time searches, which is pretty cool. So I can say "Show me listings within a 30 min commute from my office."

It's not perfect -- and certainly in some cases is way off -- but it's pretty new still and its a good start.
So use all keys. Then sort the result and continue to brute-force the correct output.

How many billions of NTLM keys can a Geforce crack in a second? How is this cryptography problem so greatly different than that one?
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The Asia Thing: In China, the government has effectively mandated a single payment network, YingLian (or China UniPay), which affects all banks and cards. Innovation is thus low and all things move slowly. Online payment portals typically require the entry of card details, a web redirect to the issuer bank in question, and the entry of further authentication credentials. With credit card penetration shockingly low, this is still the norm. People frequently still line up at a bank to send money to other provinces. With Google Play purchases blocked in China, mobile payments for non iDevice users (Apple devices are considered the de-facto luxury standard; contrast Indonesia where this is still BlackBerry) are still 'out there'. Interestingly but somewhat tangentially, the YingLian network is expanding quickly, notably with Chinese banks opening worldwide and particularly in Southeast Asia, where it is often accessible via local banks' ATMs along with Visa and Mastercard networks (the typical western global ATM network, Cirrus/Maestro, is AFAIK owned by Mastercard, which itself is owned by Bank of America). This helps to provide backing for the Chinese Yuan Renminbi (CNY) as a regional reserve currency, serving a geopolitical interest.

US-wise: I integrated in-App payments for the flagship preloaded app on behalf of a major Android device vendor who you can probably guess with AT&T and T-Mobile. One of those carriers was completely unable to block consumers calling up and retroactively renegging on payments via their customer service center; ie. fraud issues. Both of them seemed to outsource their internal billing systems to AMDOCS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdocs) who at least partly hosted those systems offsite(!), and are an Israeli, widely thought to be Mossad-backed and intelligence-gathering oriented company. This is something of an open secret in the international mobile carrier space. Smart cookies, those Israelis!

International: Outside of credit and debit card networks, which are basically US owned and operated with the exception of China's emerging YingLian network, SWIFT is the major international payment facilitator. Check this out: http://www.asktheeu.org/en/request/intra_european_financial_... .. plus linked FOI requests. All SWIFT transactions have been fed to the US unfiltered since 'at least' 2001 (source: European Data Protection Supervisor), and probably since the founding of their first 'international operations center' in Virginia (~CIA HQ), in 1979. Indeed, to the casual observer, SWIFT appears to be a successful combination American Express/CIA project from that era.
Personally I was waiting to hear something cathartic like Larry Page's 'capitalism' rhetoric.
Codrops (awesome site btw) posted a roundup of nice websites recently:

http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/12/18/a-creative-year-disti...
Because for some reason they have applied a text-shadow effect with a colour of #fff (white). So normally it is invisible against the also white background, but once you select you put the selection colour behind it causing the shadow to show up.
Seems like promises (e.g. Q) use a other sort of error handling similar to domains, but win a cleaner syntax the addition of the promises functionality.
Just take a picture of the screen with another camera. Nothing can stop this.
Duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4955067

(Posted by the same user, even.)
Discovered this after failing to compile it myself. Qt 5 configuration has flags for including ICU (required for Webkit) and OpenSSL but compilation fails with those. It compiled fine without.
Neither are available in most countries.
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There are companies set up to offer white label debit cards. Using one of them may be your best option but it depends quite a lot on exactly why you're doing this which your original post doesn't cover in nearly enough detail.
I was thinking the same thing. Does anybody use more than one? What is so special about a to-do app that can't be done with paper or a plain old text file? When I read the title, I was expecting mind-keyboards or something awesome...not a bunch of to-do lists.
So ... Shame about the script.
Actually, yes in my viewpoint pretty much every billboard is spam. I've yet to see a billboard that informed me of something useful to me personally. (Let alone at an appropriate time! Is me driving on a highway an appropriate time to let me know that I should buy something? Hell no.)
Strange terminology. In mathematical parlance the arrangement of the glowworms is still described as "random", but the positions of the worms simply are not independent of one another.
I haven't seen it yet, but the flicker of the movie is very distracting to me. Especially on bright scenes, like face-closeups. Then I can see the entire screen flicker, and I get headaches like it's 1998 again with the 60hz CRT.
He was given $200MM for his stake, so I'd say he is set for life even not counting his 51%+ remaining stake.
Can you expand on this? I'm curious. It seems to me that with the glowworms, knowing the position of one worm tells you something about the position of every other worm in the sample. If it was truly random, wouldn't it tell you nothing?
It's not just two messages. The key (sometimes called a keystream) is as long as the message itself, so one can construct any message just by selecting the appropriate key and no information is revealed about whether or not this plaintext is correct.

An attacker may as well just try to guess the message directly and thus dispensing with the pointless process of guessing a keystream and XORing it with the ciphertext.

This is the feature of One Time Pads that gives them a kind of provable security that is not possible to prove for any system in which the key shorter than the message.
You are missing that when bruteforcing a one time pad you will get all possible arrangements of all letters. How do you tell all the plausible looking strings apart? What kind of a sort function could you apply?
Works impressively well in Chrome.
I think a couple people mentioned GTD or something after successful exits, so we're seeing residual demand from the cargo culting.
The article doesn't get into details about the structure of the deal -- the $200M could be invested in the company (i.e., a dilutive event for shareholders), rather than a simple stock purchase. I'd guess that it's probably some mix of the two.
That article should really have "Apple ONLY" in the headline so that people's productivity isn't wasted.
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