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I hadn't seen yours before. It looks good as well. I'd agree that Hugo is more opinionated (but not as opinionated as jekyll) and aimed at a broader audience.

It would be great to compare approaches to things and see if we can't share and improve both in the process.

The shortcodes feature impacts performance quite a bit as it's all runtime inspection, but I felt it was an essential feature. Even with it it's still fast enough that it still builds the entire site in what feels like realtime.
Lincoln knows what they need to build (a modern version of the 1963 Continental) but has failed to commit design and manufacturing resources to do so. So they end up badge-engineering Ford products.
To be honest, I don't know. This is an interesting problem. I do know that a lot of people get hooked on Oxycotin and then turn to heroin for a variety of reasons. Though if heroin was legal it could be manufactured in a sterile environment where you could probably get like 99% purity or something ridiculous like that. It's relatively easy to get a prescription for whatever you want. Especially in States like Florida that don't check if you're doctor shopping.

There are also legal drugs that have similar effects to things like Adderall. A lot of people don't know about them or use them because they haven't been researched as much and come in powder form.

At the very least I think that you shouldn't be put in prison for carrying pills without a prescription.

You might find this Vice article interesting. It talks about how Oxycotin is essentially legal heroin.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-big-pharma-hooked-ameri...

I say we should take it slow when it comes to legalization. Perhaps start with things that are found in nature. Marijuana, psilocybin mushrooms, being legally able to harvest the opium from poppy seed plants, etc.
> I do not know anyone with the mentality of "prison should be as harsh as possible"

Go to facebook, find a local newspaper's page. Find a story about a rapist or someone guilty of animal cruelty or neglect.

Here are a couple of quotes I found from comments on my local paper (in the UK):

"It doesn't matter what went wrong he decided to take other peoples possesions by his own choice.he chose to invade peoples homes and didn't care what state he left houses or how the people felt afterwards he is scum.its people like him that ruin lives and he got off lightly from our weak judicial system and needs knee caps drilling as a reminder of why he should keep his thieving hands in his pockets in future." (7 likes)

"All peados should be put into a mincer machine feet first, then when they pass out shut it off, then when they wake turn it bk on. Don't get why they get put on separate part of prison, throw them in with the other prisoners and let them get delt with! SICK CUNTS !!!!!" (4 likes)

"Men who abuse women should be hung!" (3 likes)

etc etc.
> Threats of unlawful violence. This isn't hard.

"Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!"

£385 and £600 costs.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Joke_Trial)
Hi! I'm the primary developer of this project. This paragraph of the documentation is out of date. There is never a need for a dongle, it's all FOSS :)
because you also have integer based SQL injection. Escaping strings isn't a complete fix.
For the record, ColinWright has contacted me via email in the past.

I want to say that it seems to me that while some of the tone in the blog seemed to be a little exasperated, it wasn't trying to impugn Sal's character. I can say that Colin is very constructive and encouraging to those who are new or trying to learn mathematics - certainly he was like that in the emails we sent back and forth.

I think evidence of his motives is on the comments section of his blog where one commentator did go too far, and he shut down the thread.

I think that the blog post wasn't "blogbitching" about Khan Academy. Just pointing out some perceived flaws. Criticism is good, and from what I can see Khan Academy are trying to address them.
It is a very broad class. It literally divides vehicles into luxury and non-luxury, so we shouldn't expect it to be limited to a small number of cars.
Instead of insulting me, care to rebut my arguments?

This is hilarious. I know you feel offended that I have shown that one drive a huge plane through the holes in your reasoning, but you don't respond with a barrage of "fallacies." Sigh.
For me the scariest idea is that a private company who runs the prison gets to decide how will you be trated there and how many additional punishments you'll have to suffer through and noone questions their right to basically own you.
Not Real Programming
Yes, nobody is doing anything about those 15000 people.
A chunk of the “deep web” went down over the weekend; Tor users should be wary
This is why I love my Nokia 100.

I don't want or need a smartphone, that's what my computer - or on the go, my laptop - is for.

I want a reliable phone that will get me out of emergencies and sticky situations.

A smartphone that runs out of battery in a few measly hours, overheats, and has terrible design flaws simply does not do the job I want it to do.

Admittedly I had a very bad experience with an early model of HTC Desire, so I'm more untrusting of the things than most.
According to articles that I've read in the past, when the Feds get caught in trial doing something like this, they'll say "Whoops, we screwed up, but we were acting in good faith". Generally, that makes it ok.
I will literally cry myself to sleep that evening if such a thing comes to pass :(
Why don't we start with an easier lab-grown animal product than something we ingest?

Because it's a prestige product, Where "authenticity" counts?
(e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_diamond)
Or perhaps because millions of animals are slaughtered each day to be consumed as food?
Using Qt as a Cocoa stand-in sounds complicated. Since Darling already uses its own loader and syscall hooking to provide compatibility for the program, why not do the same for a framework like Cocoa?
Keyword: reports

In Russia you get raped and not reported. There is a whole caste system in prisons here.
Not that deeply, I only did B&W document imaging, and I think the last time I worked on TIFF headers and tags was in 1992, so it was almost certainly the 5.0 standard, 6.0 came out in that year.

And yeah, it was a mess; we mostly did the best we could and made sure the ones we generated worked for our customer's reader(s). Although I don't remember any big problems with people reading the ones we produced.
>that's less secure than prepared
statements, and may break some
things (eg if the code is relying
on certain things not being
escaped, etc)
(On a bit of a tangent here:) The primary win of BitPay (and bitcoins in general) seems to the elimination of chargebacks. This is good for merchants, but not-so-great for customers.

It especially isn't suitable for an environment like eBay where you could potentially have less than trusthworthy sellers. In such a situation it is necessary and beneficial to have some sort of middleman (could even be the government), that you could go to, in case whatever you "bought" wasn't what the seller represented it to be (or really any other such issue).
The data-mining aspect could be troubling depending on the details, but the parallel construction isn't. They're not planting the drugs on the suspects when they stop stop them. But the hysteria here is thick so one can't even begin to have a reasonable discourse in this comment thread. The paranoid one-sidedness of the discussion is mind boggling.

Look at these downvotes for disagreements. There's nothing I've said that warrants the downvotes.
Is it free? How much does it cost if not? I can't find any info on their website
For certain workflows and types of software projects and teams, Subversion performs admirably well.

There is a world outside of git.

(a world with the saddest, most rage-inducing branching model in existence, but a world nonetheless)
It's not paranoia if they're really out to get you.
> This one makes sense as well: double the memory and you will “cut in half” the time spent in GC... Well not really. Eventually you are going to have a GC. It’s inevitable. When that GC happens, you will double the time spent in GC due to the doubling in size of the Heap.

This isn't really correct, whichever interpretation you place on it.

Most importantly, it is worth noting that increasing your heap size will decrease the overall GC overhead of your program: i.e. your program's execution time will decrease.

That is, until you run into paging, when your execution time will begin to increase as the overhead of fetching pages during a GC outweighs the benefits of a larger heap.
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So suppose this is true:

A former federal agent in the northeastern United States who received such tips from SOD described the process. "You'd be told only, ‘Be at a certain truck stop at a certain time and look for a certain vehicle.' And so we'd alert the state police to find an excuse to stop that vehicle, and then have a drug dog search it," the agent said.

How do you square that with the claim that the NSA is tracking only metadata? I'd say you need the phone call contents to know where to stop a particular truck.
>You see, someday I will start my own company, and I'll decide my own hiring bar.

Yes, meanwhile people using Perl succesfully should care, because?
DBS-H offers a plug-and-play near real-time data integration solution for SME’s
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See Norway and Denmark's prison system and much of Europe in general.
While it's more ethical for the animal, I must question the carbon footprint and efficient and effective use of resources to make synthetic beef.

Firstly, to make it scale you'll need a lot of machinery. Then you'll need the right nutrients. It will need a lot of technology, because to make beef grow it will need to have everything maintained and provided for it. In nature, beef cattle can be run on reasonably unproductive land (feed lots notwithstanding). Cattle, as it turns out, are very effective and efficient factories of meat production all by themselves.
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Transaction fees aren't the only cost. You get killed on the bid/ask spread because the USD/BTC market is very illiquid as compared to say USD/INR. The INR/BTC market is so thin you'd be lucky to get fills at all.

I'd be interested to see someone do a USD -> BTC -> INR -> BTC -> USD and see a) if it's even possible in a reasonable amount of time and b) at what cost.

Edit: here's a link to an Indian "local integration partner" of bitpay http://indiabitcoin.com/. They are buying bitcoins for 82% of what they are selling them for.
I didn't say that being a genius is a guarantee to success and the Olympic athletes comparison doesn't exactly fit in the scientific field: only one wins the gold medal each 4 years while there are multiple gold medals opportunities on each instant in science.

What I said is that people who are genius in a different scale (I am not talking about a specific measure like IQ) work in a different way. They need to learn and train because the knowledge is not encoded in the DNA but they have so less friction doing this, that one unity of their efforts is like 100 or 1000 of the other genius units. Another skill to take into account is creativity, some people can produce new things with less knowledge and efforts because they see things in a different way.
Correct, we do a decent job on mugshots/driver's licenses, but are not at commercial level performance yet. Keep an eye out for NIST FRVT 2012 [1] and our upcoming conference paper [2] if you'd like to see more complete comparisons.

[1] http://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/frvt-2012.cfm

[2] http://openbiometrics.org/publications/klontz2013open.pdf
I think SiVal was making making a reference to China's invasion of Tibet.
They weren't necessarily lying, -just omitting the cause prior to the traffic violation.

You seriously need to read this:

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

Fruit of the poisonous tree is a legal metaphor in the United States used to describe evidence that is obtained illegally.[1] The logic of the terminology is that if the source of the evidence or evidence itself (the "tree") is tainted, then anything gained from it (the "fruit") is tainted as well...Such evidence is not generally admissible in court.

You cannot conceal the source of evidence that leads you to other evidence.
Amazing, an article actually links to a research paper! What the paper is claiming is to have invented a indistinguishably obfuscater. This means that for a program X, you can consider the set of all source codes (of equal size) which generate a program with equivalent behavior to X. The obfuscater can be used to draw a function from this set, without revealing anything about the original source code.
As the research paper mentions, although this meets the technical definition of best possible obfuscation, it is not necessarily good obfuscation. For example, if the obfuscater generates the most human-readable version of the input, then it would still qualify, as it reveals nothing about the original source.

The bigger problem with using this encrypt software is that software is over specified. Every external call your system makes, whether or not it actually does anything, is still considered part of the behavior of the program, and would therefore leak information about the structure of your program.

While this is defiantly much stronger than many previous obfuscation techniques, in order for it to be most effective you would need to very strongly keep all side-effect generating code separate as isolated as possible.

EDIT: From the paper: "Now that we have constructed an indistinguishability obfuscator, we are faced with the question: what good
is an indistinguishability obfuscator? The definition of indistinguishability obfuscation does not make clear
what, if anything, an indistinguishability obfuscator actually hides about a circuit. In particular, if the
circuit being obfuscated was already in an obvious canonical form, then we know that the indistinguisha-
bility obfuscator would not need to hide anything...we will use indistinguishability obfuscation
by constructing circuits that inherently have multiple equivalent forms"

Also, the application to software obfuscation is largely an afterthought in the paper. And I don't see any analysis of the efficiency of software generated by this, so my guess would be that this is infeasible to use for obfuscation.
Yep. In fact the typical SQL injection example is " 0 OR 1=1 ".
There's nothing I've said that warrants the downvotes.

Maybe you're getting downvoted because you're complaining about downvotes and not actually contributing anything to the dicussion?
Next up: Google beef. If they know our ad/browsing preferences, they also know our food/taste preferences.
Lab grown fur is an interesting prospect. We've got (almost) industrial scale lab-grown skin and a quick check with a friend who knows much more than I informs me that she can't think of any barriers to growing fur this way. You could even insert chemical/genetic markers such that one could guarantee that a given piece of clothing was made from lab grown and not "real" fur.

Also, not a huge fan of mink. Other furs, perhaps. But not mink.

As a second aside, if we could produce fur, what about human hair, for wigs? But you'd likely have more regulatory issues with human hair than otherwise.
What a pleasant surprise. Tiny Latvia said no to the mighty US. My compliments.
https://vimeo.com/29279198 real time face substitution
Secrecy in law enforcement is contagious precisely because it makes things so much easier. Kafka's "Trial" was a nightmare for the accused, but think how convenient it is for the authorities to not publicize charges or sentencing and to do everything on their most expedient schedule. As soon as it was decided that accusations of "terrorism" could be treated this way, the seed was sown. The programs and procedures developed by the "anti-terrorist" agencies will be readily used and copied by any other branches of law enforcement that have the ability to do so; this case is a prime example. So, if you thought Orwell was scary, say hello to Kafka now.
Could you explain what you mean a bit more clearly?

Traffic can be anonamised hopping it around many peers (assuming that a critical mass of them are not observed, which seems entirely likely these days).

If you sent a request to a single machine, which routed it between processes, eventually decoding the request, you are saying that the machine would not know what user made that request, and it could return the result via the same chain. But because both ends and the processing are observed, traffic analysis would yield which client asked for the file trivially. Rather like if the enemy controlled every node on your darknet, they could trivially know who you were and what you were doing.

The strength of the network is lots of nodes and lots of hops, in the hope that you will pass through enough uncontrolled ones that traffic can't be resolved. While what you suggest might, possibly reduce the risk from a compromised node in a multihop chain, it would not defeat traffic analysis, which is the major problem. Better just to inject fake traffic.
Ask HN: Is it time for a Secure HTML subset?
The stories about the Tor site exploits made me think; why are people who are running Tor and supposedly concerned with security leaving JavaScript and iframes enabled?

The state of security on the web is pathetic. The best/only real indicator we give users that a site is supposedly secure is an HTTPS indicator, possibly with a basically meaningless EV indicator. In reality those are no indication that the site itself is safe.

So what if browsers supported an HTML Secure Mode subset which disallowed any JavaScript, iframes and other potentially problematic behaviors (such as form submissions to different domains, etc.) This would work like JavaScript strict, where the page itself would indicate it is made to this specification and the browser should hold it to it and throw errors/not display otherwise.

This could be used for sites where security is more important than bells and whistles. Like banking websites, government websites like electronic voting, etc.

Granted this is not a perfect solution, and it doesn't guarantee that the server side is any better, but it at least might be a step in the right direction. If browsers supported it and we made sites to the specification, it could give indication to users that there's a large swath of potential exploits that are not possible.

Does this idea have any potential or am I just thinking about this too early in the day?

EDIT: I realize that graceful failing is a key tenant of the web, so maybe it would just fail like HTTPS does and indicate to the user "This site said it was secure but it isn't." If it passes Safe Mode validation then it gets some kind of special, really obvious to the user indicator.

The idea here is to make a mode where a) you can be sure everything on the page is coming from the site you thought you were talking to and thus b) that the server itself would have to be compromised for the page to be compromised.

This mode could also have additional effects like indicating when a link on the page would take you away from this site, etc.
It depends on the line. The more modern lines, have induction loops every 3 meters that allow precise measurement of current position, and also data for voice comms to the line controller.

On older lines, they can only detect when a tube changes power circuit and the resulting blue/white spark sends a measurable pulse down the power system. In this case, yes, they have to just count trains into and out of a section.

I learnt this by chatting to a TFL engineer in a pub, he designed the signalling systems equipment.
I tried it. I learned speed reading at a pretty young age, so I can do it, but for now I feel it's not right for me. I'm reading books to contend the points presented, really understand why the author is saying what they're saying and understand how that affects my life and what i need to do to change. While i might able to derive what is being said very quickly, i dont feel i can go through the whole thought process so fast. I need to take my time with each chapter and really absorb it before moving onto the next.
The article actually has good points and content, don't jump on the "SEO is bad" bandwagon unless you can prove that the content is actually bad.
The biggest challenge for synthetic beef will not be technology. It will be marketing. I'm glad Brin is investing, but I'd really like to see a marketing master like Richard Branson take the field on.
just put a stupid button to initiate Bluetooth pairing, like any other Bluetooth device on earth
Time to drink 36 beers?
Or private prisons that have minimum guaranteed occupancy rates with the State. What the hell.
DefCon network analysis vs. NSA
This would be in my opinion the single most important development that came so far out of the NSA controversy!

If they can somewhat manage to keep the user experience not complete disappointment this will be the biggest steps forward to a broader privacy adoption.

All those tools such as PGP, TrueCrypt, VPNs, have completely failed to reach beyond a bunch of paranoid geeks. Mozilla has the key towards achieving a mass scale adoption.

Implementing this would most likely at least double the current amount of TOR users, making this a complete nightmare for the NSA and their associates.
Just an update: the author states on Twitter that he already had notified Xerox a week ago [1]. Apparently, Xerox has only now contacted him because they thought it was a joke [2] ...

[1] https://twitter.com/davidkriesel/status/364345036407709697

[2] https://twitter.com/davidkriesel/status/364329334300880896
Sounds like Viktor Bout and all the other cases that they were able to get convictions on will surely be overturned shortly.
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Going to prison shouldn't be about punishment. It should be about rehabilitation.
Assuming it's true, this quote from the article:

A Freedom Hosting account cost a one time fee of $5 or was free with an invite from an existing member. It offered unlimited space and bandwidth, an onion domain (“xxx.onion”), “Fast Network with 24/7 Uptime,” PHP and MySQL support with unlimited MYSQL databases [...]

A one-off payment of $5 per site? I can't see how the hosting company could make any sort of profit whatsoever, and probably not even break-even (although it does depend on how many sites per server, and how much bandwidth the Tor links can actually take)

If an established hosting provider decided that they also wanted to offer hidden-service hosting, and it was misused without their ability/requirement to police it, I think it'd be a different matter (although gathering evidence that a particular .onion site was hosted with them would be problematic, certainly).

One of the problems here is that as purely hidden services provider (and presumably, some relatively anonymous form of payment, cash-in-the-mail or whatever), there's no practical way for legal authorities to contact them about investigations, or even determine who has jurisdiction.