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Do you really think that you have no need for Tor? The journalists and political activists rely on Tor and they do a crucial job for all of us, including you. And Tor gets better for them if more people use it, more traffic means it gets harder for adversaries to filter out a specific connection.

Sure, Tor can be used for nefarious purposes, child pornography and money laundering - but so can the regular mail, the telephone, the internet, public roads or in general pretty much every piece of technology. Is that a reason for wholesale surveillance and abolishment of privacy? I don't think so.
> Or by an off-by-one error in the programming they will want to too much, and skynet will evolve into a co-ed army of insatiable nymphomaniac terminators.

Oh my God, I think someone in Hollywood heard you. :)
Well duh, didn't you get the memo: the Hackathon is a marketing hack to attract talented developers who will then work on your startup projects for free! Amazing. May the best marketer win!
I believe Java is chosen for its popularity and its static typing, which helps the learner gain a better understanding of the algorithm at play than a duck-typed language would. It is even better to learn algorithms in C, where one has to work directly with the memory trade-offs. But learning these algorithms in Java is certainly more effective than learning them in Python, Ruby, etc.
The set design and sense of claustrophobia induced by Dredd was brilliant.

They even had accurate looking graffiti.

It was an exceptionally well designed set.
People who have problems need to know about diffrent solutions. Just forcing everybody to use some langauge that supports some of these from the ground up want change that.

You want a language that is flexible to expand into new fields.

Also you have still not provided with these magical programming languages you are talking about. Is there any language you yourself would use?

As far as I know many concepts like contraind logical programming is not really ready for prime time, in most cases.
As a quick summary of the previous discussion:

- use PBKDF2 if you deal with a pointy haired boss who needs standards and accreditations
- use scrypt if a reliable implementation is available for your platform of choice
- use bcrypt otherwise

PKDF2 is worse than bcrypt (by roughly a factor of 5) and depends entirely on the security of hash functions; hash functions are more poorly studied than block ciphers.

Scrypt is better than bcrypt (by roughly a factor of 4000 according to cperciva). It's memory hard and it would be much harder to build an effective system to hash as fast as possible due to this.

Regardless, using adaptive hashing is what's important and you'll be good any of the three alternatives.

Thanks to the comments from cperciva, moxie and tptacek. All errors in this summary are mine.
I understand your concerns, but I think the positive aspects of Persona far outweigh the negative ones. E.g., with Persona it's much easier for users to sign up for a new service because no annoying email validation step is required. The developers of a website benefit from not having to store passwords (they only need to store the email of a user).
"Lisp looks strange not so much because it has a strange syntax as because it has no syntax; you express programs directly in the parse trees that get built behind the scenes when other languages are parsed, and these trees are made of lists, which are Lisp data structures"
Serval is referenced in the article, just not by name.
>UTF-16 does not suffer from that particular problem

what about surrogate pairs? You can't have only one 16 bit word for a pair and have a valid UTF-16 sequence. This problem is real easy to do if you substring a UTF-16 sequence naively.
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Something that helped me (even though I didn't plan it that way) was switching over to emacs for coding and extending it using elisp. Suddenly, whenever I felt that there was a function or enhancement that I'd like the editor to have, I could implement it right away elisp and use it right away. You don't even need to create a plugin file or anything, you just hop over to the scratch buffer, write your function, evaluate it, and you extended the functionality. It is so easy that I do it all the time now. That really helped me learn more lisp.
thanks hackernews for deleting my post. I linked to the original source in the article and the post gets delted - what the...?
I got my wife banned from EsperNet IRC because I was playing around with Tor one evening. Here is their policy:

http://www.esper.net/rbl.php

Our ip-address at home ended up on a blacklist. Eventually the ban was lifted but my wife was not happy for a couple of days ...

I wonder if there are other services (IRC, MMO, etc...) that adopt a NO TOR policy.
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Common Lisp is ugly (e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp-1_vs._Lisp-2) and not particularly functional. There are a few reasons you might want to learn it nonetheless, but they don't apply to someone new to Lisp.

(In case you ask: Common Lisp is a useful target, if you want to port programs from even older Lisps, like emacs' elisp.)
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I think this is a big reason we've seen a renewed interest in cities since the 1980s. All of the upkeep on a home is ridiculous. Also commuting, sitting in traffic every day, dealing with the hassles and expenses of owning a car. Simplifying all of this is incredibly liberating.
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I'm 26; I wasn't around to see Microsoft's monopolistic behavior. I've only read about it from the history books. So people my age don't have the same emotional reaction to this. I'm pretty sure that engineers' perception of Microsoft will change back to neutral as my generation enters the industry.
Thats mostly true, but not 100%, eg the amount of optimisation may be less and code is less tested so may have more bugs, which matter at scale.

There is quite a lot of assembly code in open source stuff, there was a survey here for the arm64 porting https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/OPTIM/Assembly although much should be removed... (the 64 bit port could be what Facebook is interested in and thats way less supported...)
Based on my experience living in a small town in England five minutes walk away from rolling, open fields, I suggest that what leads to lower costs and higher speeds is actual competition between broadband suppliers, rather than regulatory capture and cartels. I understand that it's common in the US for high-density housing areas to have very little choice, poor service, and to pay a fortune for their internet.
I didn't know about them until recently. To be honest, my first impressions of their site weren't great, just based on visuals i assumed it was some syndicated content with advertising.

How wrong was i. Consistently one of the best feeds in my feedly these days.
There are nicer neighbourhoods though where you don't have to deal with most of that, where buildings are properly maintained, people keep quiet after 11pm on most nights, and you don't have go on the sidewalk for the walk to the train station.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not hating it here. In fact whenever I'm back in Melbourne I miss having an entire shopping centre plus the train station literally just downstairs from home.
And the Lisbon earthquake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake

Probably associated with a new subduction zone that appears to be forming at this side of the Atlantic:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23711-will-new-tectoni...
Do you link the expense with the quality? If bad doctors are out there its not up to the consumer to stop them, this is what regulatory bodies are for. basic public safety. Cost (in most places I have been - mostly within Australia, New Zealand and the UK) has little to do with the quality of the care.
> utf-16 misleads people into using fixed-width code where it won't work right

This is exactly my point: lots of code also treats utf-8 as if it were ASCII.

> how often do you see bulk pure text, without any markup, and that can't be compressed?

That's a good argument. Thanks :)
I found OTR's handling of that via shared common knowledge (e.g. Socialist Millionaire Protocol) quite pleasant.
Unless you were running an exit node I don't see the logic in blocking you. I think that kind of aggressive scanning is pretty rare.
And then there are stories that automated systems have this power too, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand_%28nuclear_war%29
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>The reason only the manual Zeiss lenses are available for Nikon and Canon is that they are the only ones actually manufactured by Zeiss (i.e. the only ones discerning customers want).

That's just bullshit. Your lens snobbery doesn't hold much water. Canon has never been known for its great lenses for example.

>Over time, demanding photographers won't put up with the depth of field, EVF lag, and poor ergonomics

The depth of field and ergonomics will be the same on an Alpha mirrorless as in a current Alpha. And demanding photographers are already saying that EVF is the future[1].

>Most of the mirrorless market will get eaten out from underneath by ever-improving point and shoots. The rest will get eaten by full-frame DSLRs--most of those customers will buy Nikon or Canon.

Do you have any argument for this when the market is going in the exact opposite direction with mirrorless system eating up both those markets? You're just arguing what you'd like to happen but the market isn't cooperating with your worldview.

[1] http://visualsciencelab.blogspot.pt/2013/05/i-think-writing-...
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Perhaps like these?

http://foldr.org/~michaelw/emacs/
According to some providers, relays are doing just fine (40 Mbps on a 100 Mbps line). There is significantly more relays than exit nodes because law enforcement can't really see them and harass you.
Or you know, the programmer ends up working for a large corporation and makes $100,000 a year being a code monkey and the gamer wins millions after he switches to playing professional poker.

There are no "correct choices" in life.
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If you don't have restrictions, you get something like Windows/os x. Everyone can install anything they want from any source and that is also what makes Windows/os x much more vulnerable then Android or iOS.
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You're right! Not my first thought, I have to admit.
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"I would bet my ass that there is higher probability to have your traffic sniffed by tor exit nodes than by regular ISP's"

Totally false claim. The biggest nodes on the tor network is run by established tor enthusiasts, and the largest portion of traffic is routed through them. Social pressure makes those people unlikely to put the node in jeopardy by sniffing exit traffic.

However, there is not much that would deter a coffee shop employee against sniffing the wi-fi, or for that matter, making them care to secure the router against would-be-attackers.

As such, I would be that there is a higher probability to have your traffic sniffed when visiting the local coffee shop, than by a tor exit nodes.
>>Oh, if your goal is to learn one of the Lisps, then don't spend any time on Common Lisp. It's old and ugly.

why?

I don't find that at all, and a large reason for learning common lisp is as a learning exercise to become more intimately familiar with lambda calculus and s-expressions. The increased expressivity of clojure (for example) may hinder the very thought processes that make lisp a dialect worth learning. Of course they are both fine languages, but most people now advocate the learning of a LISP not for practicalities sake, but rather just to demonstrate real life things that those sets of languages do differently than nearly every other language, and to allow the programmer to take from those experiences and apply them to their language of choice.

From THAT standpoint, i'd advocate CL first, if not only for forcing the user of the language to experience the follies of certain practices, such as the namespace issues that Clojure tried to fix about CL.
Defence of their Western border was very important when the Wehrmacht was active in the East - early in the war they really didn't have the men to attack in the East and defend in the West so having fixed defences there was seen as very important.
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But that one did cover Belgium on the German side.
+1 for not using Google Maps.
Open google map and turn on the satellite mode. You will see there are lots of green areas in Hong Kong.
Then force unique passwords without requiring the users to remember them, something which is both easier for users and more secure.
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When you enter your password into an input on a page served over HTTP, it is already game over.
It's not all that clearcut as you make it out to be:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricker_Amendment#Legal_backgro...

The key here is that the 'last bit counts'.
The way to fix this is to throw up a giant warning (al la untrusted SSL cert) when using the Tor mode and accessing a site that does not support HTTPS.
Thanks for your answers.

I guess I'll proceed like this from now on:

(1) if I use only a small snippet of a comment, I'll reference both the comment and the author

(2) if I use (nearly) the entire comment, I'll try to contact the author and present him the text and how its comment is used. The only issue in this case is that critical commentary might not be accepted.

One additional argument for contacting/informing the original author is that it is simply nice and encouraging to see one's contributions making waves, something that will be much harder to hear about if the comment is only linked to.
I reckon this could also be a key element in an awesome cyberwar thriller.

[In cavernous command center. Yellow emergency lights spinning.]

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General: Dammit! We're losing this cyber-battle. We have only one option left. Corporal! Prepare to initiate contingency plan...LITTLE BUNNY FOO FOO!

Let me know if they need a creative consultant. :-)
That's good news! What I really want though is to run it inside a WebView rather than just a mobile web app. I feel this gives more control over the experience, screen real estate, monetization options, and deeper integration with the device's hardware features.
It would, but the default browser is what WebViews are based on. So you give up a lot of power and flexibility by just targeting Firefox or Chrome for Android.
At least several years ago, Charlie had a really strong anti nVidia bias, and the site seemed like an average hardware enthusiast blog so it wasn't worth reading. Just checked it now and it seems pretty in depth now, though the nVidia bias seems to still be there.

I think though that it seems HN readers don't read semiaccurate because HN seems to be a software focused site, so hardware links probably don't get as many votes or people don't think to post them. Or maybe people just aren't as interested in hardware here?
I wonder if we can fix it after introducing uterine replicators.
nice, whats the internet connection in a place like that like ? :)
Also take a look on "Let Over Lambda" by Doug Hoyte about advanced macro techniques:

http://letoverlambda.com/

It's a pretty enjoyable book if you don't mind its preachiness. :-)
What I wonder is - If you're married and have sex with a robot, is that cheating? And does whether it is cheating or not depend on the degree to which the AI is "lifelike"?
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Yes it is obviously ok, I also liked to it from my own article.
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Any1 has a better solution ?
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Because when you start designing the architecture of your in-house hosting to be as flexible and reliable as possible, you end up with something very similar to AWS, only with a fraction of the resources and experience to manage it.

It's not like you suddenly stop having technical issues because it's your own staff and hardware.
Probably wouldn't want to live in one during a strong 6+ earthquake, but they are pretty handy during a hurricane. If you can manage to make the roof stay put.
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No, that's wrong. Mass-produced clothing is the direct opposite of a commodity.

A commodity would be silk, or cotton - the raw fabric used as base materials. What you then do with those materials to increase their value directly changes them from commodities into products.

Put another way - gold is a commodity, as is silver. Jewelry, however, is not. It can't be a commodity if the material has been changed into a diversified form to increase its value - it has to be raw in order to be a commodity.
If they look like the ones in the (btw excellent) Swedish series 'Real Humans', then the anser is: without doubt :P

edit: the sex thing plays quite a role in the series and it's layed out well - eg a modshop where you can get your robot modified to become more wild/slavish/... in bed, elderly women buying robots as 'company' etc. Recommended.
To be effective, the adverts need to be the most obnoxious, loudest, gaudiest and intrusive designs possible :)

For extra points, they should flaunt their privacy invading features, e.g. follow you around on all the sites you visit, cheerfully reminding you about the places you've been and how all the other advertisers are recording this too.
I tend to think better with low level background noise. Or I'll do a completely different task whilst my brain is chewing on something in the background. I find total silence distracting.
I see it the same way. As a country, overall, I think we're still in denial. Calling Manning or Snowden a traitor are examples of people still being in denial. "It just can't be that USG is that bad... These people stole and/or spied... I wouldn't ever do something like this... They caused so much hardship... They're bad, they need to be punished and everything will go back to normal"

The question, as you pointed out, is where are the angry ones? It could be that the numbers are still too small, or, the more likely reason in my opinion, people are just not used to being angry. They're used to calmly solving problems. Being angry is not something a civilized person does. It's only those who end up in jail. Being angry shows lack of control, it's emotional. If you're angry you're low class, you belong on Maury or Jerry Springer. Or it's something that can only be excused if under the influence of alcohol.

The other factor is fear. People are afraid of losing what they have. The system is built in such way that the smallest step out of line could cause significant hardship. Why would one go out and protest when doing so may get them arrested, which would prevent them for ever getting a high paying job?

When those in power realize that the lion is so well caged... why would they pretend the lion is powerful? In the long run their hubris is what will be their downfall, but we're nowhere near that. In the meantime we're lingering between denial and depression with very little acceptance. It takes time for people to process all this, and it takes even more when you don't have good sources of information.

We desperately need people in the mass media to stop beating around the bush and show us reality as it is. We need them to call corruption for what it is, to unravel the game so that people could process it. Until that happens most people will continue to be stuck in denial.
Thank you very much for the explanation, just read it on the mailing list too. I will update my article accordingly.

On http://jquerymobile.com there is a tool which lets you make your own custom jQuery mobile which has everything you need and this tool also added this extra file which I never needed for my app anyway.

Sorry for causing so much confusion.
If they are successful I imagine they will end up as a Yelp-style legal extortion business that is rent-seeking on advertisers.
So the way to fix this is to get involved and write some software instead of commenting in a forum as if software is a static problem. Why not open a bug report? Maybe we can prevent password reuse by the browser taking a hash of the password being entered in a form and comparing it against other password hashes locally?

The lack of a proposed solution does not make the identification of a problem worthless. Writing code is as much part of the process of solving problems with software as identifying those problems is. When a problem is largely a social one, rather than a technical one, identifying the problem and making people aware of its existence is often the bigger part of the process.

Tor guarantees anonymity. It succeeds at that. There is no technical problem. There is no code to write. This could lead you to think there's a problem with scope, that maybe Tor should guarantee security too. Unfortunately, the design of Tor is not compatible with that goal: if your plain text data goes through an exit node, then by definition, that exit node gets to see what the data is. A bug report titled "Tor does not provide secure communication" would get closed faster than you can say "won't fix". And rightfully so.

There is, however, a social problem, as stated by the OP: many people actually expect security. This is a problem that can only be solved by educating as many people as possible that this is the wrong expectation to have, which is what the OP is contributing to by making this post. This is very much in the spirit of "if you think it should be done, do it".
Or maybe just humanlike? It may be that the uncanny valley makes people prefer their bio bots to be just like humans - except without heads.
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Tor inbuilt into firefox would be really good.

It would push for more secure practices, and would complement Mozillas current efforts with Persona. Site that do not use https, Persona, OpenID, google/facebook/microsoft/what-ever-authentication-system is a problem, but better served by some form of detection mechanism. incognito mode could simply try detect the common exceptional cases, and then provide a user warning. As such, user would report the warning to the forum/wp admin, and the web would improve as an result.

Second, the tor exist node are not more risky than using local ISP, coffee shops, or a business/school network. Who is more likely to secure the network routes against malicious attacks: a underpaid janitor, restaurant worker, teacher, or a several year established tor enthusiast? Most tor traffic flow through the biggest and most established nodes, and those has a lot to loose from sniffing the network. Can the same be said about the person behind the counter at the local coffee shop?