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I don't understand your question - it feels like you've misunderstood something. In case that's true, let me explain a little further.

Some time ago PG observed that deep comment threads tended to consist mostly of people getting snarky with each other. He speculated that the snarkiness might be reduced by preventing people from replying to each other immediately, without any cooling off period. To that end, and since it seemed to occur primarily on deeper threads, he instigated an exponential back-off on comments. As a thread gets deeper, so the delay increases before the reply box appears.

I don't have hard figures to hand, but I feel like the snarkiness in deeper threads has indeed been reduced, and I don't feel that the quality of conversation has diminished. One could worry that good comments aren't made because the commenter has to wait and doesn't bother, but I've seen no evidence of that.

If that hasn't answered your question then perhaps you could rephrase it and try again.
An obstacle for Wyden and Udall to use their immunity to leak info is that they would be evicted from the Intelligence Committee as punishment.
Love everything this guy writes. Reading him feels like eating dessert.
"What happens when the sea of democracy recedes...."

We become very glad that, outside of the fortunately rare hellholes of NYC and D.C., and to a lessor extent Massachusetts and New Jersey, we've retained the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Puts a ceiling on the tyranny the state can exercise, and any attempt to confiscate the people's arms is a clear signal to turn our cold civil war into a hot one.

ADDED: various formulations list the following "boxes", soap box, ballot box, jury box, and bullet box. We still retain the other 3 even if the ballot box becomes an effective nullity, and in our Federal system it won't likely be so at the state level. Much can be done in our system there, including calling a constitutional convention and ratifying new amendments to the Constitution. Which is essentially what happened the last time we had a impossible central government.
The use case would be to connect to the dock with 1 cable rather than a huge port on the bottom. Or connect to an external drive bay for fast and low overhead access.

The external GPU thing has always been the most fanciful use case.
The author's argument is that the probability of impact on ECC of this line of research is less than probability of an impact on factoring. Post-quantum cryptography has to avoid ECC since the elliptic curve discrete log problem is easily solved by quantum computers.

Regarding the possible solutions other than ECC: There are no hash-based encryption schemes, only hash based signatures. I believe there is little faith in any multivariate scheme to remain secure under serious scrutiny. Many such schemes have been broken. The outlook on lattice cryptography, and some coding theory based schemes is slightly more positive. Apparently ECC has received much more attention and study than either of these.
I can't figure out how to use/find templates ...
I don't know, there was a lot of griping about the credits in the previous NerdyData threads on HN, and HNers are their target market.

I think having the service free, or providing 90 day free trials, would help their adoption significantly at this stage in the game.

I know Patio11 would disagree, but I think trying to monetize at this stage is unwise.

Just to be clear, I'm not really suggesting that they're going to make serious money with adsense. Maybe they could cover their hosting for the time being, though.
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The concept of a plea bargain (as far as I understand it) is quite messed up but so entrenched in the American legal system that to make that suggestion I assume would get either blank stares or calls of one's insanity and possibly 'subversive commie associations' or whatever...
What the hell though. "We're going to throw the book at you and show no mercy, but if you say you did it you'll go a bit lighter." Seriously that has no place in a trial.
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Perhaps my comment was a little snarky, but perhaps you missed the point. perhaps I was a little too subtle, or perhaps my phrasing was poor and ill-judged.

Regardless of those considerations, my question is genuine. I see a lot or criticisms here of the technical measures taken to prevent or ameliorate particular issues, expressed by people who have idealistic opinions and points of view, but with zero experience of actually dealing with the problems. That is starting to annoy me more and more, and perhaps that irritation seeped into my reply.

But the point remains. The reply back-off was implemented to help reduce the snarkiness in long threads. My feeling (with no hard evidence) is that it has worked tolerably well. My question is genuine - if this annoys kmfrk, then how has kmfrk dealt with it in the past? If kmfrk has neither experienced it, nor implemented a solution, then I feel the criticism is misplaced.

In conclusion, probably next time I won't comment.
Off topic, but I think your website is beautiful.
Sure thing!

1. Two hard drives (msata & normal laptop drive). It has been handy to get ssd speed and a good size place to store larger files.

2. Two usable video outs. This is surprisingly hard to find in the PC arena. If linux supported optimus properly I'd have three usable video outs. One day!

3. (The big one) The M14xR2 (2012 model) has an aluminum cage inside the laptop. It is very, very sturdy. Coming from an Apple that was one of my big requirements for a pc -- I didn't care about weight & size, but I wanted zero case flex if I lift it by a corner. Alienware does that, a lot of other PC laptops do not. Also has a huge & sturdy dc input. I haven't checked to see if the new model has the same cage, so I'm being specific about what I have.

4. Great keyboard for a laptop.

5. I really like the look of the laptop. I know it is gaudy, but I was getting tired of sleek aluminum.

6. Easy to get into. If I want to change the hard drives in the future, replace the battery, etc. it is all extremely easy to do.

In the PC arena I could have gotten the same specs for a lower price, but on a less durable laptop. MSI, for example, was also in the running, but reviews mentioned a lot of case flex. I'd like this one to last a couple more years, and I believe case flex has a lot to do with sudden laptop death syndrome.
> Especially for HN, in the land of the free.

Whatever gave you that idea? This is a forum owned by a private individual. The individual's interests in computer science, painting, startups and leadership probably influenced how the forum started. Sure, there are some people with libertarian tendencies here. It doesn't necessarily mean that everyone top down automatically thinks Tor is a holy cow. In fact, there were some reasoned arguments from forum administrators (at another forum but posted here), the other day, about why they were banning posting from Tor. (Spammers abusing Tor).
Sure, but then you're paying for both a domain and a VPS, and you're spending a little time on setting it up - whereas with Gandi (or other registrars that include IMAP with domain purchases) you're only paying for the domain.
I would rather stay in UK than anywhere else. Sure there is the inequality but the poor in UK are much "richer" then the poor in other countries used in example. And the rich are much richer then the rich elsewhere.

The main distinction is that if you decide you don't want to be poor here, nothing stands in your way, while as elsewhere you may end up being stuck where you are ( due corruption, casts, discrimination, lack of opportunities etc. ) unless you emigrate.

( I am not UK born, I lived in 4 different countries UK is fourth. The previous ones include one of the top 5 with lowest inequality and I surely don't want to live there )
I was talking about Python. A list comprehension is defined as having the behavior of a loop.
Yeah, it could. It doesn't tho. So you have to remember to force it if you want android to listen to you setting the attribute.
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I learned something cool about browsing porn that CentOS/Squid helped resolve. If you visit a porn site every other video click opens up another site and it gets annoying. You basically will have to click on the video twice to view what you want. The solution was Squid by disabling most of the header information in the squid configuration file. I disabled the User-Agent header and I could browse porn with no more redirects!<p>Config entries: /etc/squid/squid.conf
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Interesting that they mentioned Wordpress but not PHP. Especially because they mentioned Django and Python.
Even if they were properly informed, doesn't Congress currently have something like a mid-teens approval rating? While they obviously should be overseeing everything that's going on, a rating like that doesn't exactly exude confidence from the American public that they'd even know what to do given the opportunity to do so.
As startups we seek to find unfair competitive advantages to get, and stay, ahead of our competition. Apple is incredible at building competitive advantages (e.g. their mag power adapter, iTunes/App Stores, etc). But having the President of the US veto an independent court's ruling tops my list of possible unfair competitive advantages..
Really? I'm under the impression that it really became a "complex" and gained power post WW2, hence Eisenhower's warning about it. Previously there wasn't that large of a standing army nor that large of a defense contracting industry afaik.
Ya it's really shocking how accepted in it.

One of the higher up police chiefs(I think) said "..what else are they suppose to other than to fuck boys."
Nice for you. I have so many bikes stolen and so many bike parts that I do not want to leave anything on my bike that can be dismounted easily.
I could never get those beautiful powerline fonts working with Profont on Xterm/Urxvt.

I see you're using OSX, so it may not be helpful, but what font are you using there?
Even Udall & Wyden? I understand the clean-house sentiment, but do you deny them credit?
Easy: http://www.xkcd.com/1181/ :)
This is magnificent. Truly it is. Holy crap is it good.

TIL: Laws don't exist. Rights don't exist. Power is the only protection against power. Companies are their country's bitches. Countries aren't really that different. Power isn't where you expect it to be. There's a lot of Potemkin posturing going around. There are a lot organizations out their more dangerous than the NSA.

Did I say how good this essay was? Because, to be frank, it is probably the best thing I've read all year.

The world is a farce, and everyone in it is full of shit.
A 401(k) is essentially just a retirement savings account. Money goes in regularly, the account has a specific balance, and any future obligations are managed in a well-defined way by a bank or brokerage. There is no opportunity to conflate the performance of the business with the ratio of savers to pensioners or with the performance of the investment itself.

The other kind of pension, which we generally hear about in large companies or governments, is indistinguishable (to me) from accounting fraud. The whole point is to make the business (or government) look better today, and make big promises today, and hide the costs and obligations far into the future with optimistic projections.

I am not a lawyer or expert on this matter.
Could you elaborate on which subs these are?
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I've been fairly critical of Apple on HN and seem to avoid the dreaded hellban. Plenty of upvotes. Also critical of HN and avoid hellbans. Plenty of upvotes. It's possible the criticism is a secondary attribute to the thing that leads to bans/downvotes/obscurity.
Ordered one on the 25th, which hasn't made an appearance yet, but I messaged them a few days about it and had a reply within the hour. I went through the control panel, not by email.

Pretty much the expected reply: exceptionally high demand, 1-10 day wait, blah blah.

Incidentally, I think you're only allowed a maximum of 3 personal Kimsufi servers, so perhaps they cancelled yours because it would bring you up to 4?
For example anything related to mvc app. Trying to mash together a bunch of jquery to build a single page app gets out of hand real fast.
I'm not joking when I say right click should have a repeat option. Why does a suggestion to file a bug report sound dismissive to you? It's not like I told you to code it yourself.

I'm not joking about changing speed; how often do you want to play a video in slow motion? It's not really the browser's job to do that.

I used weasel words because I didn't want to go testing. In addition to me remembering additional issues on my phone, Opera and IE10 do bad resampling, and chrome does a weird thing where it shows bad resampling for a couple seconds before replacing it with good resampling. Specifically, when I say 'bad' here, it's not nearest neighbor but it's not using a proper method either. Small details, such as lines 3-4 pixels wide, disappear entirely in spots when I zoom out. They're using algorithms that only sample a couple of points, which breaks down terribly on sizes like 33%.

Edit: I found a mozilla bug report claiming that high-quality resizing is turned off if an image is on a page multiple times. Ech.
Why should my phone send out strange flags (that disable sync features) just because it's used as a hotspot?

At least for me, phone traffic is free, and if some device needs to sync some photos the software shouldn't disturb it because somewhere (USA?) has nonfunctioning competition in mobile connectivity.

For example, for my Android tablet the usual network connection is my phone hotspot - how would I even know if some feature is waiting for "nonexpensive connection" that is not going to come any time soon?
It kind of screws with my timezone. It's 5:50pm and if I query for "timer 6pm" it'll set up a timer for 2 hours and 10 minutes instead of just 6 minutes. Does anyone experience this? Is there a way to set my timezone?
> These sites like to promote themselves as communities, and to be banned from a community with no explanation, due process or right to appeal is awful. It can literally alter, even ruin lives. This, AFAIK, doesn't happen in the "real" world". I don't see why virtual communities get some sort of impunity.

Sure it happens in the real world. A real world community like an HOA. It is a private property. A private property can really make any sort of rules (apart from a few choice rules that don't flag banning by the super community: the government) and roll with it.

I think an independent open source community would do better. You sign up for it, make whatever damn fool rule you want for your own tribe. Roll with it.
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Wow, I knew they rolled out some access to countdown from the ibus system, but I thought hell would freeze over before they'll allow people to track tube locations.
To clarify, Notmuch is a mail indexing and search system with a command-line/library API. It's very easy to integrate with mail frontends because of good design decisions (eg. it does very little, everything can spit out JSON for easy parsing, ...). As a result, many excellent frontend clients were written on top of it (an emacs mode that I use, a Mutt/Sup-like curses client, a GTK one, ...)

Notmuch does two things:

- Indexes a Maildir and places messages into a Xapian fulltext database.
- Provides an API for tagging, threading, retrieving, searching, creating template replies, etc. for the messages in its index.

Getting mail into the folder is the burden of another program (say offlineimap or getmail), and sending mail is also handled by other tools (say MSMTP or sendmail).

I think Notmuch would have made an absolutely killer framework to base Mailpile off of.
Is NPM down? Is the NPM registry down?
NPM seems to be down. Unable to build any Node.js projects that involve basic core components. Seeing "registry error parsing JSON" for components that have been fine the last couple thousand build. Anyone know what's going on?
No, it's disgraceful that Apple refuses to abide by FRAND terms i.e. cross-licensing, yet at the same time demands the same or better licensing costs as companies who do abide those terms, and then just uses the patented technology anyway without paying. Nokia was forced to litigate against them for this reason, and rightfully won.
A citation is needed here but not for the original comment?

Peronally, I think this particular line of discussion is useless, with or without a link to some partisan "study" from one side or the other.
All Apple Insider submissions get automatically killed. Your idea that there is a big pro-apple conspiracy would be more believable if you had actual evidence.
And yet I see plenty of famous developers who don't contribute to open source at all and it somewhat sickens me (cough Tapbots).
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these primarily deal with bindings, templating, etc. For RIA one needs complex even propagation. The difference in my mind is that RIA are much more like a workbench than a horizontal website. In a workbench you have toolbars, menus and panels which can be customized for the complex workflow. Typically such an application has only a couple of views but many possible actions, where as webapps have several views, but only limited number of actions directly affecting what is on the screen.
I would have to select French. It's a very musical and sensuous language. Years ago after walking into a convenience store I was asked by a beautiful French girl to help her with a confusing copy machine. Here we are talking about paper feed and an errant machine and I am mesmerized by the sound of her voice and expressive hand gestures. She was speaking in broken English and mixing French words when necessary but the lyrical tone was undiminished. My heart beats a little faster just thinking about it again.

As far as talking to a machine I would select Ruby. A deciding factor in recognizing the presence of beauty is the alluring attraction to interact. Ruby's language makes the odds of scoring on your first date with her a real possibility.
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No sane new organization offers pensions. Joint contribution individual accounts (like the 401k) are much more reasonable.

Any old org with pensions and half a clue should be scrambling to get out from under them.
2 years ago I read a book about understanding and trying to control the brain, as I was trying to solve my untreated ADHD.

This book was written by a experienced neuro-scientist/psychologist. She had treated a patient that suffered a stroke and suffered some brain damage, which apparently caused them to become a pedophile. The patient was given ADHD medication and the pedophilia had disappeared.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/cellphones

Note that I'm not presenting the above link as absolute proof but merely as something that causes one to think about it. It is not 100% clear cellphones are safe. Maybe 99.999999%, but not 100%.
I can't seem to edit this now, but someone else reposted the link to Python 3.4.0a1:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6155530

Their submission currently has 34 upvotes.
I assume because it's "metered" (ie, billed by byte). The TODO suggests that this should be figured out rather than always enabled.

You can go to "Settings > Data usage > ⋮ > Mobile Hotspots" and maybe that's related? I've not checked/experimented. But it's possible you can go there and disable the feature for that AP.
Good luck with that. There are basically two scenarios here to consider in a popular violent revolution:

1) The army sides with the people. In this case, the right to keep and bear arms is basically irrelevant as you have the backing of the world's most powerful army.

2) The army sides with the government. In this case, even the militia types with huge munitions caches don't stand a chance against the world's most powerful army. This is not 1776, it wouldn't be musket vs. musket.
FOR RECEIVING EMAIL: Most domain registrars will have free email forwarding as part of their DNS/MAIL settings, so you should be able to get your registrar to forward all email to your personal account free of charge.

FOR SENDING EMAIL: postfix is free but a hassle to learn. Sendgrid is good for transactional emails and has two options: (1) a free level that lets you send up to 200 emails per day, and (2) a "lite" plan that charges $0.10 per thousand emails. It can take a bit of digging to find the free signup, but the link is on the front page if you scroll down.
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There is no debate that smoking causes harm. However assume for the sake of argument that smoking increases one's chances of getting cancer from 10% to 90%. If someone smokes, then gets cancer you cannot definitively link that specific case of cancer to the smoking. When you have a large sample, you can demonstrate the link, but you could still only say X% of people who smoke and got cancer got cancer from smoking; you cannot say who the X% are.
Because the alternative is burning through someone's very expensive data, and costing them thousands of dollars. It causes less harm to avoid automatically burning bandwidth.
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No, you were not at all clear about what you wanted to achieve. From my reading, you simply berated someone on the internet for revealing something about themselves. I've never found that to be a productive way of convincing anyone of anything.

You now say that the aim was to get repentance, when he's already stated he regrets it. At no point do you give advice about what he could/should do now to 'make up for his sins', apart from 'feel really bad'.
Reminds me of "put a burger in your shell".

http://notes.torrez.org/2013/04/put-a-burger-in-your-shell.h...
I think you missed the whole "...doesn't require access to Google..."
It could go either way, but the fact that FH did little to stop child exploitation being hosted on its services, and combined with what members of Anonymous said, I don't think it's being friendly to the government that's caused this.
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Where is the StackOverflow for upcoming bills? There should be a simple site (which I may have to make myself) where people can vote on bills they think are important and draw attention to them.

For the uninvolved citizen, they could visit the site and see that [something like] SOAP 2.0 is voted most important to watch. They could then cast their own disproving vote for the bill, which the site would track so that come election time a notice such as "Senator John votes in accordance with your votes 20% of the time."

The user could easily express their opinions, the site would remember their opinions, and would tell the user when their representatives did not represent them.

Personally, I don't know what bills are important, and even if I did I wouldn't remember how my Senator voted 5 years from now when he's up for reelection.
If you are tryiing to persuade people to join a particular issue, it doesn't help when you alienate parts of your readerbase.

The first paragraph:

> I'm not just thinking of the country's dysfunctional Congress, pathological infatuation with firearms, addiction to litigation, crazy healthcare arrangements, engorged prison system, chronic inequality, 50-year-old military-industrial complex and out-of-control security services.

Right there you've already excluded persons who are pro-gun and want to support your cause.

This kind of issue transcends a lot of traditional barriers, so it would help if they weren't reconstructed around the argument.
Did you file a bug for the date parsing?

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