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>Are you the kind of person that plays emulated games with 2xSai/HQ2X filters?

I play emulated games with those filters, and the reason is simple: it makes them look more how I remember them when I played them as a kid. After all, old CRT TVs caused the sprites to get smoothed back in the day, so it's not like perfectly blocky pixels are really the "original" form. Beyond that, playing SNES games unsmoothed makes my eyes water, and HQ*X looks better than other smoothing algorithms.

In any case, judging and mocking people for how they like to enjoy their games is pretty shitty.

But I also appreciate pixel art that is designed for modern displays, and I agree that the medianed version of the Lucha Lawyer looks horrendous.
When Watson tells the hypertensive diabetic to stop smoking and lose 100 pounds of weight, is the patient going to be any more likely to do it than when his human doctor tells him the same thing?
There's also MicroJS:

http://microjs.com/
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Thanks for the tip. Fixed. Stared at it for so long during development that I didn't even notice!
They need to meet the same criteria we do, here are some starting points but its far from exaustive:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/policy/

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/3...

http://www.webtrust.org/homepage-documents/item27839.aspx
> Am I crazy for thinking that I need to sludge through another 3-4 years of half-time coursework?

If a degree isn't a non-negotiable requirement for advancement where you work (or will be working), then it's probably not worth it -- unless, of course, you're learning practical things directly applicable to your job.

There are plenty of people who either succeeded in ways that their completed degree made no difference, or succeeded without a degree, including these people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_college_dropout_billion...

Also, the cost of college tuition is increasing faster than any other household expense. Eventually a degree simply won't be worth it in a basic financial sense, something even college education advocates reluctantly acknowledge.
Oh wow. I didn't know you were doing Erlang these days. (You know me as StoneCypher.)

Welcome to the flock. You're a very good programmer, assuming you're the person that I knew from efnet #c++, and the community will be improved for having you around.
I think this is a great start to solving what has evolved into a real world problem. However, I think that this idea needs to be explored further. As others have indicated, the resulting User Experience for the Sender is not that great. The time investment requirement has shifted from the Receiver to the Sender, which does not really solve the problem. I think a truly elegant solution to this problem will lower the time investment for both the Sender and the Receiver. So with this said, I like the approach, and I think Boris is half way there (with a strong focus on the Receiving End at this point).

If it were my project, I would now brainstorm and focus on how to make the User Experience better on the Sender end. He mentions that he plans to eventually have an iPhone/Android App (aka UI of some sort on the Senders End), which I think is a 'must' in terms of facilitating a good User Experience for the Sender.
Whoa, sweet find! Slightly differently positioned though I think...
Canada has secret agents?
ack - nothing showed up, then three, and now I can't delete anything. Apologies.
Interesting, but might be a hard sell to already email overloaded people now having to categorize outgoing mail. They might now even get an extra auto-reply mail for every mail they send.

There is also a emotional aspect in terms of everybody being told very explicitly that they are not important enough for an immediate reply.

In the worst case, a sender gets a message saying "that email you sent to Tom last week has been auto deleted. You can resubmit and maybe Tom will adress it later". It might be the honest truth, but I can't imagine a lot of people, especially customers or managers, would enjoy such a message.

As mentioned there is interesting elements, but ultimately it seems too engineer oriented and with a bad user experience for senders.
Oh goody. Maybe it will spell the end of the "you should follow me on Twitter" imperative at the end of every blog post on every blog everywhere.
A brief summary of Phoronix benchmarks: nice graphs, meaningless results.

[Seriously, Phoronix benchmarks are often very badly designed/executed. I'm not sure whether it's because they really are completely clueless about benchmarking, or because they just don't care.]
What, no "C.I.Eh" comments yet? I'm... a little disappointed to be honest.
Ask HN: About time
Why does time count up? In my opinion it should be counting down. Because the time for the end of the universe is a countdown. Sure the universe are expanding and so on, but galaxies die everyday. At some point there will be nothing, not even time.

What does HN think about this? A stupid or good idea? Sure it most likely would never become implemented. Not until the end is close at least(if there is any smart life forms left...), but in theory?
Of course they do, why wouldn't they?
I don't think there is some new insight in his letter, though I agree the message is clear, and his decision made. But lots of 15 year olds think school is boring and pointless, or think they can do anything based on the tiniest success.

Lots quit school for "real life", and for far worse reasons than having a substantial & profitable business, though I'd suggest there's a survivor bias to the ones you hear about - Branson, Gates etc.

Like I said, the only reason against is that you don't know what you don't know, and his parents will see real risks that he won't.

The time for an intervention was a while back, and it just doesn't seem like a terrible parental decision to throw your support behind a child with ambition and some success. (unless of course the business is propped up by parental subsidy, or favours from friends: free rent, broadband, meals etc. might have made a ramen-profitable business look like a fabulously comfortable one).

Who knows whether it's the right decision? It's a viable one while business is good. I hope his motivation stays strong for whatever comes next - whether that's expansion, a second business, college, or something else. Good luck to him.
Any move towards a decentralized system that is harder to track and spy on would have my support.
Those projects show sub-CAs actually seen in public scans. They don't show all the sub-CA certs that could be used to compromise one's own security. We don't even have any idea what percentage of sub-CAs they show. For example, I doubt they show the TURKTRUST sub-CA that was used in an actual MitM of Google (and likely many others).

This is not directed specifically at you @rmhrisk, but it's really disappointing how everyone involved in PKI seems to have a systematic habit of pretending like clearly identified potential risks and vulnerabilities are equivalent to impossible until (and sometimes even after) they're actually caught being used in an actual exploit.
your original product was riddled with problems, so much so you had to entirely change the architecture. a stream of ppl popped out of the woodwork and had a laundry list of problems with your original work. making security products that are not built properly endangers those who use it, as i am sure you have heard many times before.

you are clearly very talented with marketing yourself and the project, so cryptocat getting lots of media coverage led to an essentially crowdsourced design for cryptocat 2, very similar to mega. sure enough, this design has held up relatively well and gotten through audits without too many serious issues. as someone who cares a lot about secure comms, i have seen and continue to see no reason to use cryptocat.

i find it particularly ridiculous that a supposed proponent of free speech suggest i am not entitled to my (negative) opinion of your project. i see no point in filing bug reports for software i will never use. i believe in people doing their own homework, it is not my job to improve your project.

if i assume that your govt troubles are indeed legitimate, there are a couple things that seem inconsistent to me:

- you seem very concerned about the negative ramifications of angering your local govt, and all this is linked to (1) your dev work and (2) your prominence in the media. if you are so truly concerned about govt action against you, why are you publicizing the harrassment you have experienced? it only serves to promote your dev work and elevate your media presence, which i would expect to further aggravate your local govt.

- the govt likely knows that actions like this, properly publicized, only lead to an increase in the reach and use of your product, in direct contradiction to your suggestion that they don't want to have your product circulate. it seems that "cui bono" in the context of your story is that you and your project directly benefit by getting lots of publicity.

i found it a bit difficult to fish out details on the ciphers and modes you use with cryptocat 2, which doesn't exactly inspire confidence. i am not a fan of using a stream cipher (AES-CTR) to protect non-streaming comms due to the nonce re-use issues your audit found. ssh using AES-CTR makes sense to me, an IM protocol, not so much.
I don't want to hijack the thread, but I am using the built-in OS X firewall.

Anything wrong with that?
> Canada has secret agents?

The fact that you don't know about them means ... the plan is working.
So, the percent isn't really enough to get answers; there's going to be a lot more information here.

But generally speaking, in American tech companies, the current norm is something like "a four year monthly vesting with a one year cliff."

If you have that, what that would mean was that you got no stock for your first year. If you got fired in month 11, you'd be out in the cold on equity completely. This is a safety measure for the company: you can't always be sure you're hiring the right person.

But if you get past the cliff, then you receive all the stock you would have gotten during that time.

A four year monthly vesting means that you break your stock up into 48 monthly groups, and receive it in those pieces one at a time. So, assuming the one year cliff, you'd get one quarter of your promise the day that cliff ticked over, then 1/48 of your promise every month thereafter until, after four years, it was fulfilled.

Meaning if you got a 1% offer (which is large,) and you got fired at exactly year 2 of a four year vesting, you would walk away with one half of one percent of the company.

There is a book that I read which I found very, very helpful in understanding the arcana. It's called "Venture Hacks," and despite that the title pretty obviously panders to software nerds, it is chock full of very valuable information, and is presented in a way that I found very, very readable.

It is quite uncommon for a company to give you a percentage up front. Hiring is difficult; sometimes a complete clown looks really sophisticated, and two months in, when you realize they basically just lied their way through the interview, you don't want to send them away owning a piece of your thing after having done nothing.

But, the amount of information you gave us is incomplete, so we cannot actually give you a solid answer.
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Illegally monitoring anyone, citizen or not, is excessive and supremely uncool.
An actual exploit like this designed to monitor the hacked computer would likely either talk to a small range of IPs in the infiltrating organization, or a widely scattered botnet.

Trying to contact a small variety of servers of various disparate government agencies seems more like an attempt to generate false evidence that the victim is actually a dangerous hacker.

Or at least that's what Stephenson, Doctorow, and Gibson have trained me to think.
Neat - I can see this coming in handy for large tables or lists of data, for condensed views or when there are too many actions to show inline. Good job.

One thing I notice, on iOS there is a delay or issue where I had to tap three times to get the bars to appear...
In the case of solo founders, what do you do?
Crooked Timber put together a series of essay about open data last summer discussing these issues in more depth (including one by Aaron Swartz):

http://crookedtimber.org/2012/07/17/open-data-seminar-2/
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If you read the comments on the article, it's pointed out that the results are virtually identical to a previous KDE-vs-unity benchmark (PC-BSD was using KDE for this test).
It just seems exceptionally incompetently handled. The inconsistent stories? Repeated connection attempts to send data to "obvious" places instead of more careful probes and innocent looking transmission attempts to less suspicious locations.

The whole thing sounds like a bad b-movie or someone playing a practical joke, rather than a genuine attempt.

Then again, who knows, idiots manage to get hired everywhere.
Unlike startup launches, I didn't get all my ducks in a row before publishing this post. I just figured this out this week.
rapgenius.com does
I think it is less a trend and more a fact that in early stage companies titles don't mean much, even CEO doesn't mean much in the earliest days. I joined Twilio as the first non-founder so basically employee #4 and at that time we had no idea what to call me. To be clear, I built a team that was 18 people when departed and hired another dozen people who ended up in various other roles (support, ops, product, etc) so while the title was undeserved in the beginning it was an understatement in the end.
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I do not thing email is broken, nor do I think it's a todo list. In fact it's my favorite part of the internet. But y'all go ahead.
The cat crept in the crypt crapped and crept out.
Agreed. Furthermore, from personal experience I have clicked on adverts on search engines a number of times, but I don't remember ever clicking on a link on a blog post.

On a side note, where are you finding reviews that are "honest and unbiased"? I find them them pretty rare
I agree, this trend is a big part of how we are thinking about the future of Referly
lol. you must have seen me at the border, eh? ;)
They also have a tendency for linkbait headlines and repeating themselves in articles with slight rephrasing to increase the page count.

Those tendency combined with the sometimes enormous amount of graphs makes a lot of page views for them.
I agree that we should take it with a grain of salt. Remember that at the RT launch, MSFT employees had to line up to get their free RTs.

Also lots of reports are stating that some stores received low single digit quantities (including the display model).
Yea, that makes sense. Moved. (I'm a bit doubtful about that helpers category in general, probably going to change it)
I would not deny the possible that, for reasons I don't understand, any species advanced enough to be capable of interstellar travel behaves like a cross between Bono and Peter Singer. But I would not stake the survival of my species on it.

And there is a reason to believe that they probably won't be - they will be the product of Darwinian evolution, just like us, which is really not a very nice thing.
I need "Zoom: 175%" when reading Hacker News comments. My eye-sight is great, but reading larger fonts is much easier.
You're paranoid, man. Take a deep breath. See a doctor if you can.
Your link doesn't argue with Cowen's first sentence. When Cowen says "essentially pilotless" I understand it to mean "keeps going without operator intervention", and after reading your link that's still my understanding of what happens.
Phil Zimmerman (PGP) knows a thing or two about what happens when you make cryptography/encryption that is not easily known/keyed/trapdoored for national security agencies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann
Marsh, I understand your concern and I share it though I don't agree with the conclusion (re sticking head in the ground).

With that said GlobalSign has committed to implementing CT and we hope all other CAs agree to do the same as Adam points out earlier in this thread its the way to bring the desired transperancy.

That said it alone inst enough either, to start we also need TACK (and/or HSTS pinning), CAA, robust revocation checking and Name Constraints.

And while conversations like this are uncomfortable (certainly for me being on the receiving end) I think they help too.
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Isn't that the easy part though? The onboard pilots will automatically listen to flight controllers.

But honestly, don't you see the solution here? You have a room full of pilots in Tulsa Oklahoma (or wherever) or are providing manual intervention when necessary. Just like how we manage millitary drones today.
Alright, I was just wondering if you had experienced the origin of pixel art.
Nope, just want to know (since I use it too but i'm looking for something better)
This is a curious assault on general knowledge that you display here - what precisely would you consider to be "useless information", and why?

Schooling at the level you're at now is designed to be well-rounded, and I suspect you would be doing yourself a future disservice if you chose to completely reject it in favour of your current narrow interests.
I did a self-study on a project that lasted several months. I wrote down everything, including mis-typed characters, grammar errors, syntax errors, and semantic errors. I did a root cause analysis of the result. One general result is that I have a 3% error rate, regardless of activity. In fact I find that the delete key is by far the most important key on the keyboard, representing 3% of all of the characters I type.

One observation is the fully 1/2 of ALL the programming errors I made were due to copy/paste. Your mileage may vary but I doubt it.

Copy/paste is evil but it is so "low level", like the delete key, that you probably don't even think about it.

You may find it worthwhile to do a deep analysis of your personal error rate on some project. It is very enlightening. In fact, we ought to fund studies so we can get industry wide statistics.
I should hope that wouldn't matter if you are running fullscreen...?
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An alternate way is to just abandon email altogether. See, for example, the #noemail movement:

http://prezi.com/w5if2h-bcbcd/ncsu-noemail-why-you-couldshou...
Why can't you publish the URL with the version appended? The full (location + version) URL translates to a static resource. Unless you imagine people don't enjoy seeing query-strings in their reports, perhaps.

Or is it that you have to be able to predict the full URL in advance of the upload? In that case, yes, adding a server giving out signed URLs to the bucket is probably the best solution.

Alternatively, if you really want to be sure the content can't change, you can generate a .torrent file from the document, hash it, stick it up on a tracker somewhere, and then give out magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:[...] URNs. Those can't mean anything other than the document they referred to when published, even if you as the server-authority wanted them to!

...

Or, you could try to use DURIs[1] and hope that browsers will advance enough to automatically translate them to Mementos from a TimeGate[2] delivered by your unversioned resource. Sadly, some "standards", aren't. ;)

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-masinter-dated-uri-05

[2] http://www.mementoweb.org/guide/quick-intro/
IMO popular mainstream consumption, and being difficult to track/spy, are at odds. If everybody and their brother reads what you write, I can't think of any way it could simultaneously be difficult for the Feds to follow it too.
The OP is talking about preventing someone from overwriting their own files, mind.
I'm not old enough to have played these games when they were released. Nor am I likely to have played them if I were old enough. But I do understand that realism isn't necessarily the aim of art and find pixel art beautiful independent of its nostalgia. Perhaps age isn't the estimator you're looking for?
CSIS is not nearly as eager to unjustly violate personal freedoms out of spite as its American counterparts seem to be.
>Unfortunately that open door draws in people who actually don't like what Canada is about ... Or just call it some sort of "anti-activism" creed.

Sounds like what you're saying is that because CSIS does some legitimate things it means they don't also do less legitimate things, like harass/spy on activists.
"As in who cares about security enough to encrypt their messages but not enough to install a standalone client, which has a stricter security model."

this is so spot on. secure comms have no place in a web browser, which is a complex beast with a large set of underlying dependencies. webkit vulnerabilities leading to comms being blown is a crappy architecture.

people who care about comms use a standalone client and a separate server. if you care about the integrity of the server, you run some disk crypto, DDR3 memory, secure it physically, etc.
Sort of. But one nice thing about blogs; "social networks" seem to encourage extremely brief snippets. While blogs are not the champion of long-form high quality content, they tend to be a step above social networks in terms of written content IMO.
It's missing closing heading tags (h2, h3). So each heading contains a heading contains a heading... headings all the way down.

EDIT: And yes, the heading tags have relative font sizes, as cleverjake pointed out.
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Yes.. and in the meantime, I suggest all of us watch this 29c3 talk by Jacob Applebaum, "Not My Department" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mnuofn_DXw ), and think about all our roles in all this. It's not going to stop unless we make it.
Relax, Microsoft’s partial sellout of the Surface Pro doesn’t mean much
Would be great to have something like this also serve up the JS files via a CDN, and provide a JS-based loader (like require.js for remote scripts). Plus maybe dependency management?
Just to pitch in 2c, I think society's reticence to implement automated decision making has much more to do with how to handle responsibility for mistakes. I think that is ultimately more important to people than picking the decoder with the best success rate.

By distributing responsibility over many doctors (who hail from many medical schools), you make the pain more manageable. The concentrated responsibility that would result from having a single decision system make many many care decisions might be very difficult to stomach.
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even though i am not "allowed" in canada currently, i found the govt folks to be pretty reasonable when i had to interact with them.
So you don't believe the "legal consulting" was "posting legal analysis on his blog"?

I wonder what you think it is, since he has literally no legal background at all.
He also finally admitted he was engaged by oracle to do roughly the same.