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from the article:
"In the meantime Japanese officials found that the basket-case story powerfully ameliorated angst in Washington over Japan’s closed markets. They proved quick learners and have projected an image of Japan as suffering some weird economic equivalent of dementia ever since."

And when are americans going to learn that they swim in a sea of propaganda? That propaganda is what our minds eat, breath, and drink? Especially the young of america--their entire subculture is a enclosing, enveloping fabric of propaganda. This propaganda world is no conspirary, but an ecosystem. In this case, Japan was the generator of the propaganda, but the US govt, and the other major societal institutions of America also generate massive amounts of propaganda. This is no conspiracy, but an ecosystem, an ecosystem of human society where the major actors are large institutions and corporations that generate propaganda to manipulate public opinion, even mold and evolve the culture.

From the article:
"In Washington, however, the basket-case story worked like a charm. After all a chivalrous United States doesn’t kick a man when he’s down. The result is that even today not one of Washington’s highly publicized trade grievances of the 1980s has been resolved – not autos and auto parts, not financial services, not even rice."

I have been reading the writing of the author of this piece, Eammonn Fingleton, for years. One of his major themes is that the real reason why japan and germany and other nations that depend on manufacturing have done so much better than the USA is that the type of manufacturing that moved from the USA to overseas was the good kind of manufacturing -- turn raw materials into products. This is quite a bit different from turning parts into products, e.g., car assembly plants. That is for the most part the type of only manufacturing that america has left.

High end manufacturing is the best type of industry, better than software development or finance etc. Better for the citizens, that is. But you see Japan is run for the benefit of its citizens, and the USA was never designed for that. From the start, the USA was designed to be run for and by the owners of capital. It says right in the documents that were written as part of the development of the USA, when the so-called founding fathers got rid of the articles of confederation and installed the constitution.

The fact is that the USA politicians allowed high end manufacturing to go overseas because the corporations paid them to do so. And the fact is that the American GPD growth is now primarily a factor of mass immigration. That is not a type of growth that helps the quality of life of its current citizens. But the propaganda put out by the institutions of america will not tell you that.
At least here in Germany there is no insurance for the nuclear plants. Risk is covered by the public, while the profits flow into a private company. Someone calculated, that if the plants were insured, the nuclear kWh would cost more than 60ct (normal consumer price right now about 25ct).

But of course the risk and the damage are very vey hard to calculate, as we can see right now, live and in colour in Japan at the Fukushima plant. And that is the reason why no insurance company would ever offer an insurance for a nuclear plant.

To me it is beyond comprehension why while looking at the horrendous desaster over there, people are still suggesting nuclear power as a safe, clean and cheap alternative. It obviously is not.
I don't know if I'm making a big mistake here, but isn't local council tax used to maintain the roads?

So if I was going to go down the path of "I pay my road tax, therefore I have more rights on the road than you," I could just as easily say "you're not from around here, get off MY roads!" Which would just be silly.
Clusters, honeypots, bitcoin mining, roll your own cloud.

Well thats a few to start with i guess.

Edit: Missed the part about bitcoin. They wont make you rich but anything is ok to dabble with it.
Am I reading the patch correctly in that Android versions below 4.1 are not affected?
> "This is mostly to try to normalize posts, so things with super linkbait titles don't always do well, and things with terrible titles don't always do poorly."

I don't get this impression. If anything, I've found that original article titles are far more likely to be link-baity than editorialized versions. In addition, It's rare that I've seen a bad article title improved the way you're suggesting.

If anything, I've had the impression that this system is somewhat automated and original article titles are used if they differ significantly from the title submitted (triggered after some threshold).
Denmark changed the term to "Grøn afgift" - Green Tax.
This means that car owners pay for the polution that they generate, but not for the roads. Roads are pay though other taxes.
It's important to realize that this article is by Eamonn Fingleton, who has been pushing a fixed idea for decades now: that Japan is secretly a terrifying power. He has written several books that touch (in whole or in part) on this theme:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3D...

I read Blindside back in 1996 and I thought his argument was interesting for that time. However, when you read him, it is important to remember that he has not changed his opinion in 20 years, and there are new facts to be accounted for. At that time he seemed certain that Japan would be the worlds #1 economy by the year 2000. His prediction was wrong, but he has not much changed his opinion: he still believes Japan is an important success story.

Japan suffered a long depression in the 1990s. That is not fiction. That is a fact. However, it is also true that some of the stagnation of the period 1990-2013 should be attributed to demographic change.

Paul Krugman offered a partial counter-argument to Eamonn Fingleton here:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/japan-reconsider...

Also, it is worth noting that for the last 20 years Fingleton has constantly harped on the fact that Japan has a trade surplus, sometimes a very large trade surplus, and he thinks this represents economic strength. Numerous economists have made the point that a large trade surplus can be a sign of economic weakness: perpetual insufficient demand at home in the domestic market. Fingleton has rarely taken this view into account.
But the one-page manual of coffeescript is far more useful to users than those looong specifications. No document about the syntax is better than the annotated source of the parser. And you can find specifications about all kinds of javascript runtimes elsewhere, they document the coffeescript runtime too.
we did. The F14B ;)
I absolutely agree that the technology has plenty of use cases and that the paper the article's written about presents an interesting new perspective on security. I was, however, annoyed that the article's title and opening paragraphs seem to take something relatively elementary (it's a feasibility study!) and frame it as some sort of Inception-esque mind-hacking situation.

In other words: I agree about the value of the idea. I think, however, that there's a huge disconnect between the information and how it's being presented.
> A "serving" of alcohol is considered 0.6 fl oz, or 14 grams

Not in the UK!
"suicidal business-wise" is not the same thing as "fiction". It happens. I was talking to a female someone who feels that way a few days ago.

Whether it happens enough to sustain a business strategy is another question, and not one that you or I really need to worry about.
We don't really know that. The other obvious implication would be that we now might need new/expanded openssl/ssh key blacklists, for keys generated on Android devices.
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But they only copied the API, remember. Not the implementation... ;-)
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A lot of the time "assertive cycling" (cycling in the middle of the road) is safer for the cyclist. It means cars are forced to stay behind then. If you cycle on the side of the road, a car can try to squeeze past you, sometimes at speed.

People aren't just making these decisions based on thinking "they own the road", personal safety comes into it too.
I'm legitimately curious about how a former sound engineer finds himself using a pair of cheap Apple earbuds at work.
But if you publish post using "fake" accounts I assume that these accounts have low karma and most of your posts won't make it to the main page thus no one will read them.
"Pollution tax"?
AWACS in combat historically have had fighter (or interceptor) escorts. Sure, I miss the Phoenix, but even without that, you can usually intercept any threat before it reaches the AWACS.
> Ever heard of research.microsoft.com?

Yes.

The submission clearly says microsoft.com, not research.microsoft.com

Didn't you know that HN shows the research subdomain in submission titles?

EDIT: Sorry, this reply sounds a bit snarky.

EDIT2: I'm wrong! Thanks to TeMPOraL for pointing out my error about HNSearch and HN.
Tell you what: You write executable code which tests whether, e.g., Ruby's Fixnum addition is actually adding or not, without using introspection on the implementation. (i.e. You're allowed to test any combination of inputs and outputs, but cannot look within the black box.) Feel free to use number theory, statistics, or a web service which wraps Cthulu in JSON.

I will provide a script which monkeypatches Fixnum such that your test script still reports "Yep, it's still adding correctly" and which will predictably cause 1 + 1 to equal the string "LOL I AM THE NSA" under attacker-chosen conditions.

There are many, many ways I could do this as the crafty adversary, but I anticipate my implementation would be roughly seven lines long and trivially implementable in hardware. (At complexity somewhere between a half-adder and the circuits which we had to hand-draw for our finals in hardware design, which -- obviously -- are a drop in the ocean of complexity on a modern CPU.)
Roads are split I think in terms of this with larger roads centrally managed, And I think paid for.
They're going to have trouble with the name. Pure ( http://www.pure.com/ ) is a radio company - which means they're in the business of moving bits around and may want to have a smartphone app for streaming at some stage.
The original title should be kept somewhere on the comments page if possible, to show that the title was edited.

Example:

Vulnerability in ICMPv6 could allow Denial of Service
(was: Ping of Death Reloaded)
Here's the problem: if you ride on the side and there's not enough space drivers will come very close to you or try to squeeze past in between oncoming traffic. If you ride too close to parked cars you are liable to get doored, which has happened to me (in Kensington of course, by some upperclass twit stepping out of a cab who's probably never ridden a bike or driven a car, but I digress). A friend of mine almost had his trachea punctured by the corner of an opening door.

So, no, if there's not enough space, cyclists should absolutely get out in the middle where cars can see them and respect them.

That said, London rush hour is not a place for slow or casual cyclists unless you really know your routes through side streets. We're still a long way from Holland.
It will be necessary when vietnam happens all over again because of jamming and we need 'analog' weapons.
I submitted this article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5181742

Which included David Byrne's (slightly misinformed) thoughts on the Aaron Swartz case. As such I titled it something like "David Byrne on Aaron Swartz" - it was changed to "Civil Disobedience" (the title of the blog article).

Although the old title may be have been guilty of "editorialisation" in some sense, the new title gives no indication of why it would be of interest to HN readers.

I really think this policy does a considerable deal of harm.
Plus, sometimes what drivers consider to be the "middle of the road" is actually just "avoiding the various drain grates and potholes".

I do agree that there are a large number of road users (pedestrians, cyclists, car-drivers) who are stupid, selfish, and lousy.

I'd be interested to see research on attitude. Do cyclists suddenly forget what it's like when they get in a car?
I see. OK. Well if you let an attacker zero out your random number generators, you're screwed. You'd better not let that happen.

This 'decrement pool entropy estimate and stop returning numbers' idea is the longest running mistake in crypto.
Jazelle basically turned into an extension of Thumb2, where there are few extra instructions for things like bounds checks. It should theoretically help make faster JITs in general (not necessarily just JVM ones).
> The submission clearly says microsoft.com, not research.microsoft.com. Didn't you know that HN shows the research subdomain in submission titles?

Oops. I didn't. Is there somewhere a written collection of rules to learn?
Google trends is not always a good indicator of traffic
"Emissions Tax"
I did a submission from the New York Times about how the IRS was targeting open source groups, and the title said as much. The title was changed to "Documents show liberals in IRS dragnet". So I had to write a short HN-adapted blog post on my blog and redundantly submit that as well.
I also cycle commute in London after having done so in Silicon Valley, Minneapolis, and Santa Fe. London is by far my preference because of the critical mass and the general awareness that drivers have of cyclists (New Mexico is the worst, they could kill you there and not even realize you even existed).

I understand the road rage issue because everything is tight in London, and cyclists often make better time than any other mode of transport across central London. But it's also frustrating when someone thinks cycles don't belong on the road because the alternative is even more auto traffic and worse congestion.
Say you wanted your backdoor to kick-in when I was calculating the fibonacci sequence, will you also detect when I was calculating it via the golden ratio, or via continued fractions, etc. If I can write a test that can show that there's a backdoor because it's not behaving consistently then your attack is significantly weaker then a RNG attack.

You can't just break one calculation under specific circumstances, you have to break any way of verifying it which means compromising pretty much every calculation.

(not to mention you'd have to figure out that it's the fibonacci sequence being calculated and not some other calculation that happens to start with 1+1)

Remember you don't have an interactive attack, you have one chance to build something and ship it out in hardware, and it then has to compromise software that's going to be written in the future.

The beauty of the RNG attack is that it's undetectable, introduces a backdoor into a huge number of systems and it only makes the system vulnerable to the attacker and not to anyone else.
I agree about the arduino and batteries, but this board is a bit different.

It uses external memory which takes more power. It uses javascript which could take much more power. And the wifi also might not be low power. So it's not clear yet how low power it is.
That evil API has bitten so many projects.
"You cannot live an equally good life in the developing world. That's a romanticization. "

Not really. You can't get as good in some aspects, but if you have the money (which is not difficult if you're being poached to work in Europe/the US) you can get beyond on some others.

Like big house with a pool and maids.

Very nice hotels/vacations for a price of an average hotel in Europe

"My family was rich in the developing world. We would go from our house with its high wall and iron gate into our foreign car with driver and tinted windows"

Spot on
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
While language is powerful I am not sure it will help, as in Australia calling it a registration fee, leads to "but you don't pay rego" arguments. It's particularly silly in Australia as a huge number cyclists are car owners anyway.

For my part when I moved to a dense European city with clockwork public transport I gave up cycling and am much more stress free because of it. I think I'd only return to cycling in areas with proper lanes or separate paths or a prominent cycling culture (e.g. Denmark or the Netherlands). There is just too much stress involved with sharing the road with aggressive cars when there are no separate lanes, particularly when being forced very close to parked cars where people fling open their doors. The other poster in this thread saying he's only been "hit only lightly a couple of times" says it all, even if the stats for serious injury aren't that high it's just in your mind all the time.

All that's to say nothing of people deliberately coming close and beeping just to bully, or people double parked sleeping in bike lanes. The one that takes the cake is probably the person who ran a red in their car, I was waiting for it and yelled at them, and then deliberately crossed into a cycle lane I was in and braked heavily to deliberately have me smack into the back of them sending me over the handlebars and ruining a wheel. Police not taking things seriously was the main a problem there. If someone had some other huge piece of machinery that wasn't surrounded with the cultural aspects of a car and deliberately smacked it into someone they'd be in a court in short order.

While I find Top Gear amusing and will always support sports driving in designated areas I think self-driving cars can't come soon enough. The process will accelerate pretty heavily in the countries with poor public transport infrastructure facing the retirement of the post war boomers as well.
That's Oracle you are thinking of.
After about 2 lines, I gave up and copy/pasted the text into an editor with word-wrap. Funny thing is I have this exact same problem of horizontal scrolling when reading HN comments on my iPhone. It's also the only reason for me to use a app to view this site.
In England and Wales the Highways Agency manage and maintain what they term the "strate­gic road net­work" - basically the motorways and main A roads (map [1]) - and this is funded by central government. Other roads are the responsibility of local government. I don't know how it works in Scotland.

[1] http://www.highways.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Highwa...
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I believe this headline is a very clear example of Betteridge's law of headlines[1], since the answer is 'No'.

I'll also just add that road surface wear and tear is to a significant extent and function of vehicle weight. If car driver want to yell at people for using more than their fair share of the road, yell at HGVs.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline...
No, there isn't. And only a few domains get the full subdomain listed; HN used to get a ton of "(github.com)" submissions that were just GitHub pages.

It's an annoying bug, it keeps getting raised as a problem, but it's never been dealt with.
Having written c# for many years JS is like a breath of fresh air simply because it is dynamic and you aren't confined to the inheritance model of c#
I find changed titles to better whenever I happen to notice them. I also think its a great check on the kind of mob mentality a social site can develop. Having said that, I think it would be an unequivocal win for the site to show titles had been edited by mods.
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It's kind of funny, I find myself doing the opposite--when I see a completely meaningless title on the HN front page, I assume it's actually something much more interesting and a mod de-editorialized it into meaninglessness, so I click through to see what it is.
How would you verify this in 2 minutes?
I don't think pg and co. have ever responded to complaints about changed titles. Probably the policy of HN I like the least.
> Except if /dev/urandom is using a hardware based random number generator, then you have to trust that the hardware hasn't received some NSA alterations at some point during the design.

That is a valid concern that needs to be part of your risk assessment. "Do I want to protect my secrets from a well funded government agency?"[1]

But there are other risks that need to be thought about too. Some people seem to think that hardware RNGs are better than software. Often they're not, they're lousy.

HWrngs can have subtle failure rates which are hard to detect.

Once you've done all the de-skewing and other checks they can be quite low bandwidth.

I have a bunch of links to reading about HWRNGs here - (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6060636)

And here's a really nice thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1453299)

[1] Although if you want to defend yourself against a well funded secret government agency you need to worry about more than a weak RNG.
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Strange he didn't mention women entering the workforce when he talked about demographics and the US increasing workforce, just about every article I have read about Nippon's economic stagnation does.

Perhaps because it is too taboo to suggest the feminist revolution was unnecessary, that we could have achieved both economic success and personal wellbeing without it, as Japan had apparently demonstrated.

So we continue to perpetuate the myth that Japan is on the verge of death - I even recall a UN committee calling for "urgent" gender equality to stave off economic disaster - it was the "only way" Japan could regain growth.

Perhaps not.
And it was a huge snub to Sweden when Norway went with the F-35 for clearly political reasons (later confirmed by Wikileaks cables). There's probably a lot of Schadenfreude going around now…
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Not to mention yet other signs of Japans wrecked economy:

* Zombie giant banks, addicted to bailouts

* Currency pushed and pulled by Yen carry trade

* Complete efficiency collapse. Workers work very long hours accomplishing little

* Eye watering debt ( worlds largest on many measures )
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Well, I only know this because I just now did a search for research.microsoft.com after your message. :-)
And I think the more important point is that there should be an indication that the title has been edited by a mod, and perhaps also show the original submitter title in the article page.
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At least "Emissions Tax" versus "Vehicle Emissions Tax" works better in coping with horses.
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