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> one that should be non-existant if Social Security was maintained as the proper safety net retirement system it was intended to be. Enron wouldn't have been such a disaster if all of those people had a solid retirement from Social Security.

Hmm, don't know what you mean by this. As it stands, the safety net is working -- nobody who worked a significant portion of their lives is living on the street for lack of funds.

What SS does not give is a retirement of the same quality as a rich person's retirement, which should make sense on the face of it. Those Enron folks did have a Social Security retirement, what they lost was the more lavish retirement they had planned for themselves (nb: I'm not using "lavish" in any derogatory sense).

SS was intended to be a safety net, not a golden parachute, so elderly people didn't die freezing and starving in the streets. By and large, it has accomplished -- and continues to accomplish -- this mission.
There are two stages: first, the path is found. Second, the path is followed.

To find the path often takes longer than one update tick. The old way to handle distributing the job over multiple ticks was threads; the new way is coroutines.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5998050
Every single one of those is an acronym. Why are they so obsessed with acronyms?
Launch it as a single founder. If its ready, then there's no harm in seeing if your product can gain traction by itself. What's the worse that could happen? If it takes off, you won't need to ask people to come on board, they will be asking to join you.
Hi,

I'm glad I found your comment, I just pushed something like what you just described to one of my repos yesterday. Hear me out, I'm not self promoting myself out of context here.

I'm currently working on an OpenPGP integration for the Roundcube webmail project and have so far added functionality from the OpenPGP.js library. The pros of this is of course usability and that no external applications are necessary, the cons are, amongst others, what you just wrote above.

To be able to support briding local GPG binaries and keyrings into graphical browsers without exposing any critical information I threw together an HTTPD which listens on the client's localhost. The concept is already proven to work, now it's a mere matter of implementation. It's based on the PyGPG library which wraps GPG into Python and is compatible with both Windows and *NIX systems as long as they can execute GPG and Python (which they can).

It's still a work in progress but currently supports key generation and key listing in response to HTTP requests. Through cross-origin resource sharing users can specify which domains should be allowed to speak to it in a simple text file separated by line breaks.

I wrote up more detailed info on the approach and usage here: https://github.com/qnrq/rc_openpgpjs/issues/64#issuecomment-...
Source code currently available here, although it will be separated to its own repository later: https://github.com/qnrq/rc_openpgpjs/blob/pygpghttpd/pygpght...

I can conclude that what you are requesting is actively being built and partially already exists but still needs to be put to use. Hope you don't view this as shameless advertising, because it's not. I'm only responding because your ideas are spot on what I pushed yesterday.

Any form of feedback is greatly appreciated.

Much love!
you are free to leave your boss. Your country is liable to extort money from you at the end of a gunbarrel if you try to leave it.
There are runway cameras.
Agreed. I would ask where you found, but then I don't want to jinx it.
>As for the "hockey stick" graph, it was effectively critiqued by Steven McIntyre, a Canadian businessman with a mathematical interest in climatology.

That's like saying "evolution was effectively critiqued by the Discovery Institute". Many people called McIntyre's criticisms flawed, Wikipedia has a looooong article about the whole charade, too long to summarize here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_stick_controversy
Presumably GPS and/or visual recognition system can be used to achieve the same, after all airstrip location is know in advance.
Cats sleep 16 hours a day so if you get them addicted to social networks you'll be creating a rat population problem.

In all seriousness though the author here just took the time to write what most of us have thought... that technology has been getting us to look down at stupid things on our smartphones too much and not enough up at the sky or around us at each other and our cities.

We don't think enough about the bigger problems, we only come up with new filters/effects for our food pics.
Hi, It's great to hear that you are back on it! I stumbled on this page a couple of years ago and was saddened to see it wasn't getting updated. Thank you for this great piece of writing.
Heck, just get one of those dash cams from Amazon. $25 for the cam, $35 for the SD card, suction cup it to the window, plug it into the wall, and it'll record the last several hours on the card.

All for less than $100, and 5 minutes installation.
Maybe if people stop begging the government this wouldn't happen in the first place.
Yes, using subkeys and rotating them is good practice. But really the hardest problem with pgp is getting people to use it in the first place, so let's not focus on subkey use, or upgrading from sha1 to sha256 (or better), or key length (the author uses 1024 bits only).

Though I'm not sure why the author focuses on non-threats like known plain text attacks, which gpg isn't vulnerable to, and not these issues.
Defensive American undergraduate educated anecdote: my degree was in computer science and I studied this third year. Can't speak for anybody else.
Your product, can't get traction on its own. It needs focussed effort to gain traction.
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Yeah, I wish I could find a good tool/site for quizzing myself on these.

Something that would give me a paragraph and ask me to name the bias present if any.
Having no obligation to protect is quite different to having the right to shoot and kill.
Allow me to pimp my own lib which might be useful since roundcube is PHP:

https://github.com/jasonhinkle/php-gpg

I'm working on encryption and signing as well. Key generation would be nice as well. I need a little help with it though.
The middle class forsook classic middle-class values (free time, time with family, a small home in the 'burbs, seeing raising kids as something worth your time, etc) to play the money game with the rich folk, and surprise surprise, they're getting outplayed.

The only winning move is not to play.
Looking at the GPS coordinates, the second to last reading was ~200m before the seawall, while the last reading was around halfway down the runway.

The plane is far outside it's normal operating conditions by this point, it's possible the plane instruments actually experienced a brief moment of 'climb' while the plane was crashing, or it could be equipment malfunction.

However, from what I can tell, the plane never reached that far down the runway. And the gps coordinates have actually snapped to the middle of runway 19L, near where it intercepts 28L, suggesting that flight radar 24 are doing some post-processing to make the planes stick to runways better.

I wouldn't trust that last data-point at all, as it's definitely post-seawall.
If you look at the community of Steubenville, yes.

If you look at the wider picture of media coverage, quite the opposite. Reddit started the witch trial pretty much instantly, with some of the most upvoted comments being for life in prison or worse.

Look at the backlash when CNN referred to the accused as boys with a formerly promising future whose lives were now ruined. God forbid you show an ounce of sympathy for accused rapists, because it's impossible to be sympathetic to the victim and not want anyone to go through the hell that the rest of their collective life is going to be.
For some reason brewing made me wonder if it's possible to encode data in a liquid. Detect the presence or amount of 256 different compounds in tiny drops of liquid to store each byte.
> Wait, what? If citizen's lied for each other in investigations, they'd be prosecuted.

What, the Internal Affairs division just doesn't exist? Does it not have enough power? Is that what's really being argued here?

Or is this just feel-good we're-the-good-guys they're-the-bad-guys rhetoric intended to undermine what capabilities they have, cause them to feel threatened and insecure in the midst of the citizenry they're supposed to be protecting, and motivating them to develop a similar and responsive antagonistic attitude that is precisely the seed of a police state?

Is the argument "they started it"? Is that the level of discourse that a mature, educated citizenry ought to engage in?

Fuck people like sneak. All they're good for is exacerbating problems that exist, making it that much harder to fix, fulfilling their own prophecies of doom and gloom, to no useful end other than making themselves feel self-important. It's like discovering database corruption and going, "Hell, let's run DELETE in with random WHERE clauses and see what happens. Because my job title says VP of Marketing."
Presumably, the visual recognition system in this case was a human.
Is this subscription-only for everyone else? And I assumed -- based on the headline and given the wsj's typical organization -- that this would be found in the opinion section, but it appears this is found in the "Life and Culture" section?

Why is this here again?
Distance measures for speech recognition
Pilot was attempting his first Boeing 777 landing at San Francisco
Agreed, the closest I have come to writing a game, was to write a server-side simulation engine that interfaced with a rather limited console web-app for communicating with the simuation (think fire chief on a radio communicating with units and dispatch).

One of the biggest flaws when I was brought in, is that each avatar (unit/man/truck/etc) was setup with it's own thread that handled its' own move event timer. The issue was that a few dozen avatars in a simulation combined with dozens of simulations on a server would lead to thousands of threads each causing memory swaps, with the need for locking to avoid race conditions and other contention issues.

It wasn't a real-time interface, so a second plus or minus to responses wasn't a huge deal. I refactored the avatars to work of a central loop. The only place with common interaction was a message queue for inbound/outbound messages to the various clients to the engine instances.

This cut down on a lot of the cpu contention and similar issues. This would have been less of an issue for something simple on a single computer, but running many such simulations on a single computer, you come into different problems.

It was actually fun to work around this.
Looks like whoever posted this got around the repost limit by appending a '?' to the end of the url. Someone should fix that.
Install gpg-curl, use hkps (TLS key exchange)

https://we.riseup.net/riseuplabs+paow/openpgp-best-practices...

Edit: nevermind, i see you meant the site with the tutorial, not key exchange
My plugin does nothing crypto based on the server side, everything is happening locally in the browser through JavaScript and in the future there will be an additional driver for performing crypto opts in GPG binaries as described in my comment above.

I don't mean to be harsh but server sided crypto is far from a good idea. It provices violent regimes, such as America, a technical ground to force hosts into backdooring their server sided crypto. Anything alike must be done on the client for safety and privacy to be ultimately achieved.

You should rethink that design strongly.
It is subscription-only, but WSJ has a paywall so easy to circumvent it's embarrassing - if you click through from Google you can read the entire article, so just google the title or maybe this link works: http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web...
This made me laugh. Applying this rule to the US is hilarious. The collection of Gitmo detainees, drone victims, the tortured, the extraordinary rendered, bombed, shot and otherwise victimised non-US citizens that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when Uncle Sam came knocking over their countries probably aren't smiling with me.
I was just coming here to post this. It seems like we're about to open Pandora's box with bitcoins.
Scientific writing for a target journal
It is beneficial to decide on a target journal during the very early stages of writing an article, rather than first preparing an article and then considering where to send it. Analyze potential journals and choose one. Write your article with your target journal in mind. - See more at: http://blog.editeon.com/#sthash.1SXPLQHW.dpuf
>There's no such thing as an overreaction in war.

There is when we (a) don't know who the enemies are and (b) live in a post-Geneva world where the international consensus is that yes, there are lines that can never be crossed.
"Allahu Akbar" is "Allah is great" not "Oh my God".
> Amazing only 2 fatalities so far and the aircraft was intact as it was.

Something on the close order of a half-dozen more have spinal fractures and other injuries they won't ever fully recover from.

Of the 307 on board, about 170 of them were injured, ~25 quite seriously.
Thanks for this. My wife stays home to take care of our newborn, we're strongly considering homeschooling, and it sometimes feels like a very lonely place out here in mega-career-driven SV.
Setting aside the blatant and overt racism inherent in your statement, the studies on this topic are quite clear and directly contradict what you're saying.

I wish I could point you to full text articles, but they're all behind paywalls. Try googling 'joblessness black youth depression' to read some relevant abstracts.
With you on the pop spirituality... the posted article was semi-neurotic in tone. My own decade-long international itinerance leaves no option for 'stuff'. I used to cycle tour a lot, which is a great way to get stuff-conscious (eg. slogging it up a hill at 2000m... it really "weighs" on you!). These days I nearly always travel with a 20 liter backpack out of minimalist habit.
Class lines are not very defined, and never were, but at least for political analysis the exact boundaries do not matter much. What matters is the difference in influence between the main bodies of the classes.

And while thinking about Marx one needs to keep in mind, that Marx did analyse the mid 19th century economy. Your example of a CEO is actually a quite good one, since a CEO is controlling capital which he does not own, a arrangement that essentially did not exist in the middle of the 19th century. And I think that this split between capital control and ownership of capital is one of the most important theoretical difficulties in applying Marxist analysis to 21st century finance capitalism. The other problem is, that in the 19th century Labor movement the workers had a nuclear option: If the workers just refuse to work, they will be as broke and unemployed as the capitalist they refuse to work for.
http://dylanized.com/getting-started-with-frontend-web-devel...

Also: http://teamtreehouse.com
> Snowden is allowing the spotlight to remain fixed on him;

Well, look who the interview is with.
> Sorry, non-Americans: the Constitution doesn't cover you guys. But we need to protect ourselves from our own laws first before we can help the rest of the world.

Protecting the US internet industry from these actions means not permanently undermining the credibility of every single US company when they say they're not spying on their international customers to further the government's (secret) national interests.

Americans are outnumbered more than a dozen-to-one on the Internet, you know. (And that ratio stands to get even more lopsided as the next 2 billion people get on the internet, too.)
That looks exactly like the "Basic Bear" phone they are promoting and selling on their site: http://techdy.com/shop/basic-bear/

- minus the apple logo

It's just an attention-grabbing-headline, please downvote this.
Given that the police have decided to, essentially, wage war on the people why don't we try fighting back? The majority might not care, but "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world." (Margaret Mead)

Dump money into personal lawsuits against officers committing negligent attacks such that they are financially ruined. Attend town meetings and demand sever cutbacks in the budgets of police departments acting this way. Put lobbying dollars to work and get change from the top down.
At the end of the article they pitch an Android phone they made that's "based on the design of the next iPhone"

So that's about how much you can trust the legitimacy of these pictures
Where Orwell got it wrong
30% for social security and medicare/medicaid. Income taxes on top of that. It was hyperbole, but not by much.
I just read about a service that covers this use-case (sorry, I can't for the life of me find it now). It streams low-quality video to a server to cover for the eventuality that the phone is destroyed. I'm pretty sure it was some sort of open-source software that wasn't Bambuser.
A client-cloud framework for app personalization
Looking at their products (http://techdy.com/bear/), this just seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen. Its pretty much identical to the design of the HTC One and iPhone.

Looking solely at the products though, it seems pretty cheap (cheaper than Nexus 4 even for the specs) but probably has poor build quality. Not sure if they are being truthful about the having the Snapdragon 600 either.
You mean say a cop is hiding behind a steel door while you go toe to toe with a knife wielding crazy?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/to_serve_but_not...

Nah, never happens.
You're missing the point. If the UI says "yes, that's 23david" if I can get any CA to certify that, the security of the system is no better than that of the weakest CA. Sure, your CA may be perfect, but why would the attacker go for the strongest point?
The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was
> He doesn't have to convince HN readers that this is worth stopping our daily lives for to stand against, he has to convince the general public.

The opinion of the general public doesn't matter. It's been being effectively managed for years, and that won't change now. The proles will never revolt.

The fact is, these programs existing and being public knowledge to "foreign entities" (Obama's words), pose an existential threat to Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and any other US-based company that intends to make money handling the private data of those filthy foreigners (whom outnumber US citizens on the internet something like a dozen to one).

Sure, tell everyone who will listen. But you'll find that most people don't give a fuck, and wouldn't know what to do with the information even if they did.

This change, if it comes, will come from industry, as all major internal policy changes in US government have for decades.
I was confused myself, to be honest. Eventually worked it out that this was later in the kid's life (who goes to a playground with a 0-4 mo old?), but it was a little confusing.
Useful for jam the nsa day?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5842852
Stop Looking for Inspiration. Inspire Yourself
From what i understand there is no actual documentation of Verizon handing over the records. And all employees are gaged and not allowed to reveal that this happend.

From discussion absent are the possible punishments if one disobeys FISA court order. What ground does it stand on?
Startups: Building, Pitching, Buyers and Fear
Photographer.io is now open source
The notion of domain-independent rationality is the favourite way for some nerds (so called "sceptics") to pump up their egos and then throw around nonsensical judgements in domains they don't know the first thing about. But hey, they know the Bayes theorem! So they will out-smart everyone on every topic! In some sense this is an intellectual philosophers stone, the notion (it is never said out loud but that is what seems to happen subconsciously) that once you are "rational" enough you can judge things more effectively without having expertise in a given field, medicine for example.

A good example is Nassim Taleb's last book, a collection of completely ridiculous opinions on biology, medicine, computing and fitness...
You can resubmit a link after a year, I think?

In any event, there's no way to block resubmissions programatically: the site owner could just change the name of the file.
example video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8UxUKoYhs8
I think it was a pretty feeble attempt at excusing a $60 Billion accounting fraud
3D printing and programming in British schools
> It's also worth saying that PGP isn't a particularly great cryptosystem. "Modern" PGP predates a lot of important stuff in crypto. But it's a very well studied cryptosystem.

Is there anything available today that you'd recommend over PGP, regardless of usability or ubiquity? e.g., if one has to include crypto inside an internal-use only email product, that requires both encryption and/or signatures - what's an alternative to PGP that would be considered reliable?
The Geek Awakening
Also check out:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO....
Earlier this year with the help of my (rapidly slowing down) grandparents, I moved out of a shared house in Santa Clara I'd been in since 2007, back to Washington.

I dumped everything "big", including dresser/desk/bed, and most of my books had never left the family home in Washington.

It took a week (in Santa Clara, not counting driving to WA and unloading), in no small part due to #3. We were in no great rush, mind you, but holy crap. It's incredible what ends up fitting in a ~12x14 master bedroom and a little corner of a garage. And I'd been used to moving with plenty of big, strong, healthy family and friends around.

Hiring movers seems to be a complete crapshoot, but it's probably what I'm going to end up doing if I have to move again.
Wonder how this relates to Random Hacks of Kindness? http://www.rhok.org/
He lost Bin Laden at Toro Bora; isn't that like saying the owner of a football team lost the Super Bowl?
Their design is based on information that has already been leaked elsewhere. I think what's interesting about this submission is the quick turnaround.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_antenna
I've recently wondered, what's the maximum bandwidth that can be pushed through a mesh network? Where would current wireless technology max out if significant portions of currently-allocated spectrum were reassigned for general consumer and business use, and used to build mesh networks?

For example, would it be feasible to reallocate FM and AM spectrum for general-use wireless mesh networks, and then replace the lost commercial radio service by installing, let's say, mesh routers in automobiles and having them programmed to easily pull audio streams from radio broadcasters via a pervasive wireless mesh network?

In other words, how close could we get to replacing the current broadcast TV/radio infrastructure (in terms of broadcasting and consuming video and audio) with mesh-routed wireless IP communications, if all of that spectrum were made available to be used by the mesh network?

Would pervasive mesh networking be more feasible if more spectrum were made available, and if so, could the displaced services be replaced via IP over the mesh network itself?
This may come as a shock to you, but the majority of Americans depend on their employment to obtain little things like food, roofs over heads, medicine, heating, etc. It is not so simple to 'leave your boss' unless you consider dying of starvation to be a good choice. And where do you go after you leave your boss? Oh... another boss.