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Not allowing the removal of the 'or later' clause.
You sound like you work in management. The attitude is that these types of jobs are unskilled and that electronic performance indicators are appropriate.

Let's take the job of a bus driver in a major city, which I did for a year. Everyone is out to get you. People try to stop short in front of you so you'll hit them and they'll collect insurance or they're trying to commit suicide. Drivers always try to get around you and beat you causing dangerous conditions. Passengers complain constantly and look for reasons to sue. Passengers get sick and throw up on your bus. Management sets impossible standards, so if for example you are late due to traffic it's too bad if you need to pee at the end of one trip (where you normally get a 10 minute layover to smoke and pee) because they make you turn right around and catch up. City monitors ride the bus to evaluate everything you do. Company monitors do the same. Passengers call the company and complain if they dont' like you. Cameras are on all the time in the bus and you will get called in and questioned about anything that happened on your shift. City police won't hesitate to write you a traffic ticket. You can have two "incidents" a year before you are fired. It was the hardest job I ever did, but the most rewarding because I made the grade and didn't wash out, and on a good trip (once around) it was very Zen being the calm meditative driver (which is state the job forces you into) All for 12 dollars an hour.
As I understand it, it's some of the insane backwards compatibility the 'pots' system has to put up with.

If you think way back, before dtmf/touch-tone phones, when you dialed a number, the line clicked. You press one, the line clicks once. For zero, 10 clicks. This is backwards compatible all the way to rotary phones.

Those clicks are the line being closed and re-opened in rapid succession. You dialled by 'hanging up' repeatedly. So the line can't close the moment you hang up - there's a grace period while it waits for the next click. If the initiating party does't hang up, they emulate this grace period until the exchange times out.
No, the problem is people making death threats. Don't mistake one of any number of possible factors that lead to the problem for the problem itself.

You believe that "the ways in which we hold people accountable for their actions" is a contributing causal factor? Fine. But identifying a causal factor is pointless unless you have a plan for dealing with it.

OP was proposing a practical intervention. Is it the best possible practical intervention? I don't know, but your counterproposal should be another practical intervention, not just a theory about one of the causes of the problem.
TIL that waiting for a network roundtrip is faster than accessing an in-process hash map directly.
I would question why the NSA would be a significant business concern. Do you actually know with reasonable certainty that there is a tangible (X% additional customers) business benefit to going out of your way to avoid the possibility of NSA surveillance?

There certainly are fields where such assurances make business sense. I'm just not sure it makes sense in your case. I want to make sure you're not prematurely optimizing.
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Phone systems allow this so that the called party can answer on one handset and then easily transfer to another handset on the same line by hanging up the first and picking up the second handset within a certain duration. In Australia, IIRC this is around 45 seconds. I'm not sure if this is universal. It's certainly unnecessary for mobile (cell) phones.
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Not sure about that. I feel like someone who spams 100 takedown notices, and only 1 of them is legit, should be treated differently from someone who legitimately sent out 1000 takedown notices, and 900 were legit.
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Ask HN: I want to make an open hardware RNG, but I need driver/crypto partners
I want to create an entirely open hardware and open software device to replace built in random number generators that we can't verify trust for.

I have a good understanding of how noise works. However, I know very little of cryptography. In order to do this, I'd need a partner capable of writing the driver, and ideally someone to validate my assumptions about randomness.

I've seen some stuff out there, but I'd really like to see something that is cheap and entirely open hardware and software.

My naive implementation would be to take a 10Mohm resistor across an instrumentation amp with high common mode rejection at 1MHz and use that to generate a digital representation of the johnson noise across the resistor (positive/negative). This is opposed to using the LSB on an ADC due to the speed issues.

Johnson noise increases in magnitude at higher bandwidth, so sampling faster is great, plus better for the computer.

I can also imagine a scenario where based on the bit you have a variable delay before sampling the next bit, which would defeat trying to bias it with strong fixed frequency external sources.

It seems that in firmware, the good hardware random number generators do things like hash the values, test them for randomness, and encrypt on the way to the computer, but that is all over my head (except maybe the hashing if it's a standard library).

So, if anyone has any ideas or knows a ton about this and would enjoy poking holes in my naive implementation described above, please do so! Low noise electronics is a huge hobby of mine, so I love geeking about the weird sources. I've built several EEGs and similar stuff for very high frequencies, and find it really intellectually engaging. If you'd also be interested in collaborating, maybe we can put together a kickstarter to try to make a fully open and transparent hardware platform and make them for others as well =)
Apparently, we can't use the name "Tox": http://tox.readthedocs.org/

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This is probably the most interesting comment I've read on this entire article.
What do you mean by 'check' in this case? Check the keys against the keys for all other VM instances that you've provisioned from the same VPS provider?
the problem comes when one class of game vastly outperform financially compared to the others. You end up getting tonnes of pay to win games because it nets the creator/publisher more money, where as skill based games tend to be non-existent anymore because, lets face it, there are way less people who are disciplined enough to play these sorts of games compared to instant-gratification games that gets you to pay for that feeling.
As I understand it - once you can get the time-based position fix accurate enough, you add in the phase information from the 1.2GHz carrier wave - with a wavelength of ~200mm, resolving that to 0.2mm seems reasonable.

The problem of working out which of the peak/troughs in the carrier wave you're in almost certainly requires terrestrial DGPS assistance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS). If you can use that to get ~100mm precision - that allows you to use the phase difference in the 200mm
wave length to get sub mm measurements.

Like I said, I understand how it works – I just find it hard to believe it's actually practically possible… Deep magic…
Except when it conflicts with other FOSS licenses such as the MPL, CDDL, Apache v1, Artistic License and others.
> it's a litany of distinctions without any actual difference as far as the actual nature of the 'invention.'

So then, what, in your opinion, is "the actual nature of the invention"? Could you provide some legal reasoning behind what you consider "the actual nature of the invention"?

> In the most recent "When Patents Attack" episode, This American Life found 5,000 patents that covered the exact same 'invention.'

Oh lord, was that American Life episode a bad piece of reporting about patent-related things! In the entire show, the word "claims" appeared not once! Amongst the worst reporting I've seen, and I say this having read stuff on techdirt!

But since you bring up the "5000 patents on the same thing" claim, allow me to talk about that.

The guy who made that claim works for a firm called M-CAM, who provide a service to find similar patents based on content similarity. I looked through all of the "similar" patents they mentioned in that episode. Each and everyone one covered specific implementations of various aspects of cloud backup such as load-balancing, availability, de-duping, I/O performance for high-latency connections, etc. They were "on the same thing" inasmuch that they related to the broad area of online backup, but none had any claims that overlapped. If M-CAM had any good examples of patents covering "the same thing", they didn't mention a single one on that show.

Furthermore, M-CAM issue reports about the strength of various patent portfolios. I looked through some of the "reports". They were absolutely worthless. They considered two patents to "cover the same invention" if they had some keywords in common. To them, "Alice is taller than Bob" and "Alice is less tall than Bob" would be a claim on the "same thing".

Oh, but look! M-CAM also sell a "patent-risk management service" [1]! Strange that their claims on that show would lead some to think the patent system as something that is overly "risky", no?

(BTW, I am not the only one who thought M-CAM was full of crap [2].)

> They eventually invalidated it another way, after trolls collected hundreds of millions of dollars.

Interestingly, as described in the second episode, that patent was found invalid only because the inventor did not name all his co-inventors on it. He sneakily filed the patent alone, sold it to IV, and raked in millions of dollars as a cut of the royalties.

Leaving aside the fact that the inventor was a sleazebag, that throws the whole "patent trolls pay actual inventors very little" narrative -- one that the previous American Life episode played up -- right out the window. Oddly, nobody seems to report that.

[1] http://www.m-cam.com/sherwood-patent-risk-management-service...

[2] http://gametimeip.com/2012/04/13/q-why-was-mdb-capital-right...
He says they cloned his card, so they probably either had a card skimmer installed on top of the ATM's card slot or a tiny hidden camera to photograph the card. Now they have his name and account number. They then followed him home to get his address. Then they looked him up in the phone directory to get his land-line number.
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This is demonstrably false.

I agree that cost of living in Australia is high, but you can buy a loaf of "baked in store" white or wholemeal bread for AUD $2. Sure its not organic but it is fresh.
The first hit off google seems to come from this site...
http://whysocreative.com/2013/04/07/10-most-creative-black-w...

Are you associated with them?

How could these guys have known it was "yours" ?
Thanks to the folks at AppFog/CenturyLink for putting us over the top!
Get firebug, or use developer tools in chrome and look at the requests the browser is making when you load the page, and when you scroll down and it loads more data. Then you just implement that in whatever language you are scraping with. I usually use pythons requests module.. That's about as easy as it gets for something like this.
It's not just exit nodes that you are forbidden from running. It seems any participation in the Tor network is banned, whether it be a relay, or a personal bridge in to the network.
So I have tried to stay away from monetary incentives for users. I would like to foster an open data community and provide more intrinsic rewards for contributing. I would rather monetize the site with extra features on top of the base product. What those features are will be the difficult part.
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No, I certainly would not do the same thing, and to suggest otherwise is an insult. Let's not excuse bad behavior with this misguided idea that we're all equally bad.
It lets you do things like receive a call, put the handset down (or even unplug the phone!) then continue by picking up a phone on the same line in another room.

It also meant you would accidentally DoS someone by failing to hang up correctly if you initated the call - the pre-mobile equivalent of someone phoning you from the inside of their pocket...
basically, the tldr is that you (and most people, incl me) are willing to pay for real value (i.e., real content), where as these virtual items (which costs nothing to create) is obviously worth nothing and so no one should pay for them.
Thank you for the feedback! I will put these ideas into action.
If you don't know the identity of the person who created your logo, how can you be sure that they didn't steal it?
Shift of the clock signal by milliseconds may well not matter, for sure, assuming all relevant clocks are affected.
Now that it's said, I did notice something strange once.

I had loaded up an Ubuntu Desktop droplet with the purpose of checking something out through the browser on the node.

The startup page was https://www.americanexpress.com/

Since when is that default?

Didn't think much of it at the time, but now... whoa.
Nice! Open sourcing this is a great idea, Emerson.
>There are different prices for different places based on a lot of factors, trying to fight it will only increase price levels EVERYWHERE because the volume will go down.

Do you have any proof that this will happen exactly as you say?
"That said, she gets paid $95K for a part time job with full benefits. She had a similar job in the states that was full time and it paid $34,000 with minimal benefits."

And there you have it.

If you want to live in a society with high pay, good benefits, free Medicare, compulsory pension contributed to by your employer, etc -- then be prepared to pay.

Also, there is nothing stopping you from importing cheap clothing, goods, books, whatever from overseas.
That sounds great. How do you find people you want to connect with though? Browsing on github by location somehow?
The amount of voice possessed by customers and employees of commercial organizations might be theoretically lower than what citizens possess with respect to political organizations (although in practice, I'm not sure there's much difference), but with political institutions, the capacity for exit is essentially nonexistent, whereas with commercial institutions, it's fully available to all participants.

In terms of the ability to assert one's freedom, I'd regard exit as being of far greater importance than voice.

> but governments do get a lot closer to that ideal

Why do you believe that the "ideal" you're positing is the best one to maximize human freedom? Democracy is still a kind of uniform, monopolistic rule.

I'll also point out, as an aside, that you're channeling this conversation into a debate opposite sides of a false dichotomy: the existing forms of centralized government and commercial corporation are hardly the only two viable models for social institutions: there's a vast range of alternatives that offer a variety of risk-reward tradeoffs.

That false dichotomy is also based on the presumption that people must outsource responsibility for a wide range of elements of their lives to some external institution. But what about people who want to take direct responsibility for their lives, or create their own social institutions in conjunction with like-minded others for that purpose? How are they not hamstrung by attempts to create universal monopolies?
this is cool, but it would be great to also see volume
Respectfully, I think your critique is entirely misguided. What you wrote above sounds more like a explanation in search of a phenomenon rather than the reverse. Couching a social phenomenon in a socioeconomic context seems like an especially poor fit, IMHO.

For instance, do you really think the police, SNAP, and federal assistance for hurricane victims incline people to flame others on the Internet? Folks who need food stamps are probably among the least likely to spend "all their time on the Internet," and more likely to be working two jobs. I'm not sure the presence of cops, SNAP, or FEMA matter to folks who don't need any of those things in a concrete fashion.

More importantly, though, it's a fallacy to assume that this sentiment is new merely because it's newly-ish observed. I do think there's an economic component, given how shitty the economy is compared to previous generations' experience; people are unhappy, but I suspect some of that stems from the idea that they're on their own, whereas "everyone else" (or perhaps the rich) is getting a handout. Actually, I'm not even sure folks like millennials believe that in aggregate, but I don't know for sure.

That said, anonymity combined with increased connectivity is novel, and I think it's an enabling factor. I think our social mores and our tools haven't caught up. People can say whatever comes to mind with little or no consequences, and the onus is on the recipient to filter that. There's a many-to-one relationship there and it's hard to manage.

A technological, "dumb" answer would be applying sentiment analysis to emails, tweets, et al. Incorporate as signals stuff like: whether it's a first-time sender; whether the Twitter account has followers; and so on. It's possible these would be band-aids for a real social problem. Or perhaps they would at least lower the percentage in harassing people online.

Socially, it might help if escalated harassment (i.e. persistent, involving death threats, etc) were treated as legal matters. As it is now I suspect it's too hard for victims to do much, and that it can be difficult to get the police to pay attention to it. I don't really have a concrete proposal; I just have a intuition that reporting harassment or stalking to the police is unlikely to be productive as it stands now, and I think the law is unfortunately a really blunt instrument, so this would be hard to get right. (It wouldn't have to be perfect, since no solution which will scale to hundreds of millions of people could possibly be.)

Internet mob justice is probably the answer that will happen from time to time, when people decide to deliberately out trolls. I am not a big fan of Internet mob justice, but sometimes it seems like it's that or no justice at all.
SRP is a good example of DH with a bolted-on ZK system; the client and the server arrive at a key using a hash of a password as, effectively, the basis of a DH parameter, then use a hash-based zero-knowledge proof to "authenticate" each other.
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"cod-Platonism"?
> After you have run those commands, simply restart the SSH daemon so it starts up with the new keys in place

I believe if your version of OpenSSH is up to date, sshd will read the host key each time a session is opened and does not need to be restarted.
As pointed out by est, you can snoop on SSL certificates passing over the wire and drop connections containing canonical names you don't like, or signed by CAs you don't like.

You can also drop and throttle HTTPS connections without effecting genuine use, while completely buggering up P2P and other bulky uses.
Many use it because it wasn't developed by the NSA. It is a default in TrueCrypt, for example.
Thanks, I think its the only way that we have a chance being a success.
Still his work. So flagged.
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Reasonable people do usually get in arguments (and are wrong) over the Monty Hall problem even when the problem is correctly stated (as the Vos Savant or Erdős' stories show).
I dig the way this handles multiple screen sizes instead of responsiveness, but my lifelong question continues to go unanswered:

Why does the W3C and every CSS framework avoid making 'center' a thing? Yes, I know how to do it myself...I'm just saying that it has its place.

Doesn't it?
Can imagine some very very wrong data visualisations of this ... and sentiment analysis...
Guy here. I operated under imposter syndrome for a long time. It's diminished as I've learned that it's mostly a lie I tell myself, but I still struggle against it from time to time.
There's a bunch of us going from UWaterloo.
You didn't really respond to OP's point. They said some skin in the game is sufficient.

A surgeon faces large legal risks for a botched surgery. A lawyer is likewise legally responsible for his actions. Doctors and lawyers are two of the professions with the most skin in the game!

I don't know enough about 9/11 dispatchers to say if they face liability.
I disagree : you can easily teach high level concepts like control flow, branching, loops, logical operations, if/then, without even using pointers. You can even do some pretty high level numerical algorithm stuff just using plain old stack variables.
What awesome idea did you have that never went anywhere?
What was your great idea that no one else liked or never took off?
Because, of course, TCP/IP doesn't have any bloody stupid, boneheaded decisions that it continues to perpetuate through multiple revisions (hey, isn't it great we have to read a whole header to work out the address information!)
That's not what the article said. It said that the initial fraudulent call claimed that they had cloned it.

Getting a name and phone number is easy. After you've followed the person home, poke through their waste paper bin until you find a letter/bill with the info. If the person is listed in the phonebook (often the default) then you just need the surname from the bin and the town/village of the house you're stood in front of.
At least right now – I suspect the intersection of "TOR users" and "people happy to provide email address confirmation" is so small as to be insignificant. Any development effort aimed at that cohort could almost certainly be better used elsewhere.

Having said that, I'm currently trying to make a point of using TOR for regular and mundane uses - particularly if using government sites - just to increase the amount of "legitimate" tor traffic. I'm also (carefully) intentionally de-anonymising myself while using tor like this - identifying myself to local government websites while doing "ordinary" things while connected over TOR - I booked an extra trash collection recently for example. I don't suppose my local council website managers even notice, but I like to think my local PRISM equivalent operators see traffic like this and think "WTF?" ;-)

(But like the parent-poster, I've suffered forum-trolls, and given the time and skill poor nature of most forum owners, the obvious "just ban free email accounts/tor/cellular-ip signups" is often the right, if overly broad hammer.)
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Thanks! BazQux looks awesome.

Discovering how to skip all those comments was a bit difficult though, and it's hard to see whether the current item is marked as read or not but other than that, I love it so far.
Off to discovering how can I edit my profile...
The $2 figure quoted for Indian is not the middle 2/3, but the lowest 2/3, so it would have very little to do with the median. Let's go by the figures we actually have (mean):

Per-capita income in India is $1492
Per-capita income in the USA is $49,922

So, it's around 1583/1492 = 1.06 years of work in India.
And, 106385/49922 = 2.13 years of work in the USA.

And since the hospital price is actually 95k Indian rupees, exchange-rate fluctuations do not matter.
Assuming this isn't some kind of juvenile troll, you just wrote like 9 paragraphs of English prose without any obvious spelling or grammar mistakes... that puts you in the top 1% of people that can write. That's something.

Here, listen to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-WHW-QNswE

There, fixed it.
I'm in the same boat, but the Kimsufi server setup time has said "1 - 10 days" for a while.