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I think some basic opsec is in order here. The airgapped computer should format every thumb drive plugged into it, or even better, should ignore any USB device that is not the specific thumb drive you are using. All of this could be configured without terribly much pain (which is not to say it is trivial) in GNU/Linux. Not perfect, of course, but would stop quite a few attacks and reduce the chance of carelessness screwing up security.
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"Its not surprising that some survival-valuable features (especially when they fulfill a function for which there are other mechanisms) arise and are preserved and further developed only once"

Indeed. In fact, what I find more surprising is that some non-trivial adaptations have developed more than once. Flight for instance evolved four separate times (bugs, birds, bats, and now-extinct pterosaurs all fly[flew], but none of them share a common ancestor that could also fly.) I find that simply remarkable. Really drives home the massive timescales that are involved.
Hey, I'm not saying it's either good or bad--I'm merely pointing out that there was a large migration of people from point A to point B.

I used to live across from Reliant a few years ago--many neighbors were folks that had resettled in Houston from New Orleans.
Completely agree I was a bit stunned. I've yet to see an organic wheel, many of the things humans discovered already existed in nature (cutting tools, chemicals, fire, ceramics), but the wheel seems to be apart from these.
I think it is a bit of a stretch to say that 2048 bit keys can be factored with NSA resources unless the NSA also has a more efficient algorithm than GNFS. However, it is also good to protect against potential future improvements over GNFS, so 3072 or 4096 bit RSA is still probably a good idea.
What you would be testing is how much of an advantage the young have over the adults. I find it extremely unlikely that the gears are the only difference.
Your model is too coarse.

My brother bought a new dishwasher not long ago. He knew for months that he really needed one, and there was circa 2 years that he wanted one.

For considered purchases, there's generally a long period before a clear intention to purchase where people have some awareness of the need. During that period, they're very open to information on products. If they're at a friend's house, they might say, "Hey, how do you like that dishwasher?" And if they see an ad for a dishwasher, they're more likely to pay attention.

Google does very well once people have decided to search. Twitter will be better for getting them before the conscious decision to take action. And it will also be good for the (often long) period between first Google search and actual purchase.
42floors are in the business of office spaces in startup hubs. To me HN, with its largely startup-minded audience, seems to be a great place for them to advertise.
Why don't programmers work in shifts? You work on a module for eight hours then someone steps in at 6 and picks up where you left off?

Juniors don't make decisions, they do analysis to support the decision makers. If a decision maker proposes something in the afternoon, he wants the analysis by morning to make the decision.
It's been a long time since I've used the service, but I'm pretty sure you can use no-ip to get what you're looking for done: https://www.noip.com
Funny - often, I don't realise I don't know something for sure until I share it and hear other people's perspective :)
"2. Al Qaeda uses 2048bit RSA for internal communications

3. Most corps, diplomats, criminals, and normal people use 2048bit RSA either directly (SSH keys, Website Certs, VPNs) or indirectly (CA's still use 2048bit RSA certs valid until 2020)"

I don't see how this is evidence that NSA has the ability to compromise 2048 bit keys, at will. Only that they very likely desire that ability. Math doesn't respond to desire.

That's not to say I believe they don't. Just that I can't accept two of your three premises for why one should believe they do.
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Shorting is never a long term play. The cost of shorting increases with time.
Now you can send experiments to space for under $5K
It's not really a daily price thing at this point. If you shorted FB from the beginning and got out in the 20s or teens, sure you made a lot of money. But since it bottomed out (with plenty of people still calling for shorting), it rose to $31 before it started another sustained flat/downward trend. If you've had it short for the past two months, you're position is hurting quite a bit. I haven't seen a lot of evidence that a FB short is a good idea since it first IPO'd.
Sometimes longer keys are worse. I am also a newbie so I forget what that kind of attack is called.
How he died counters the arguments of his hubris.
That's EXACTLY right... Houston is all about what I would call "Rationality".

It cuts the other way as well.

I live in Houston.

I'm one of the pricks driving all of the prices up inside the 610. I live behind the gates you see when you drive down Sunset.

Recently, I went to lunch with an acquaintance who is black. We went to a pretty nice place in Third Ward, where we met up with his friends. Being the frank [person] that I am, I professed to surprise that there would be such an upscale restaurant in Third Ward. (It had prices to match.) At which point they explained to me that it's common knowledge that if black people go out to eat in Houston, they should do so in Third Ward. So as to avoid... let's just say... "added ingredients" in their meals.

What struck me as I contemplated the conversation on the way home from lunch... was that very intelligent and successful blacks believed that the integrity of their food would be compromised if they did not eat in Third Ward. Now I realize that the reality is that this belief probably has a good basis in fact, so I completely understand their tendency to eat at restaurants with open kitchens, or at restaurants in Third Ward.

And that was the rub, there IS a sort of self-segregation that was going on... but it's all based on decisions that are completely rational for the individual. In the single case of black eating habits for instance, if a few knuckleheads in Houston are more likely than they are in other cities to ... say ... add bodily fluids to the food of black patrons... then blacks will tend to eat at their own restaurants.

Are the restaurants racist? Not really. They just happened to hire a nugget head. Probably, quite unknowingly.

Are the blacks racist? Not really. They just don't want to eat food that is potentially contaminated with bodily fluids. Quite understandably.

So everyone can act in an honest, forthright, and rational manner... and the results can still seem pretty ugly.

I know Houston pretty well... and I think that is the sort of thing that is coming out in these Yelp reviews. The ugly ways that race and rationality intersect in an economy or society.
It ia not thorny. Discriminating on the basis of race is immoral. Period. You cannot determine someone's character or how they fit into an establishment's 'vibe' simply based on the color of their skin.
I thought it was common sense not to short anything long term because the market can take far longer to come to its senses than you can remain solvent.
In which case, merely adding more software developers won't help the problem. You need to add more people of the quality of the current top 20%, thus expanding that to "top 30%", "top 40%", and eventually the actual majority, hopefully.
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To the "intentionality" question. They may be wasting time, but they may also be checking news, looking for weather updates, gossip, gadget news, &c, not to mention keeping up with what their IRL friends are doing. All of which falls under the broad category of intentional.
Nor did he have any respect for the challenge he was taking on.

The conclusion is that he died from a specific set of circumstances that few people knew were deadly. I think that directly counters the notion that he "he had no respect for the challenge" because I believe people arrive at that conclusion backwards: he died doing it, so he must have been foolhardy.
> Flight for instance evolved four separate times (bugs, birds, bats, and non-extinct pterosaurs all fly[flew], but none of them share a common ancestor that could also fly.)

Surely, "now-extinct pterosaurs", not "non-extinct pterosaurs", unless I missed some very newsworthy discovery.
I'm not sure this is so much an "or", but maybe, at best, an "and" given the circumstances of source material he is currently working with. I'm not as ready to assume the timing is only routine maintenance.
>but they'd take longer.

They would take less time because people involved would be getting adequate amounts of sleep and as a result would be able to function normally.

People who insist that other people work absurdly late hours are demonstrably not interested in efficiency or thoroughness and are actually interested in making themselves feel powerful and important by forcing other people to adhere to irrational standards.
In fact, it is unusual to see people even sign emails in the (academic) cryptography community, let alone encrypt messages (at least in my experience). It is surprisingly rare to see academic crypto researchers actually use the systems they design, even for basic things like signing and encryption.
So code an eventing system that throws exceptions when an event name that isn't registered is used... It's not difficult; it's what I use in all my JavaScript.

The jQuery route is also interesting, as it registers events as actual methods. So trying to call an event that doesn't exist will, again, throw an exception.
BitTorent Sync is a great tool for startups.
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Read the comment again. bdcravens never implied he agrees with the article. He's using "less than adults" to describe the set of people who haven't accomplished anything. This set and the set of people without college degrees may have substantial overlap, but you don't belong to the overlap by definition.
Tesla's doing cooler shit, in my opinion, than FB is. Stuff that matters more, again in my opinion, for at least the U.S. and reducing our total dependency on oil. Look here (http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger) for their plan to cover the US in two years, albeit through backwards routes, with supercharging stations. Tesla actually makes a good-looking electric car. This is all about marketing, and Americans love performance and slick cars - they don't care about the happy and petite (though not really, just going by marketing here) Prius or Nissan Leaf. Tesla is gonna' be huge and their stock is going to go up. It could halve, but I doubt it right now. I'm not an investor by any means - I don't have the money to invest, but I've watching them for a while. We should stop relying on oil, and Tesla is one of the few companies selling part of that dream with a beautiful product.
First, a lower P/E also says the market has lower expectations about future profitability. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to compare the profits of a company extracting profits from an existing cash cow to those of a company in the middle of a market share race. I think AMCX's P/E tells the opposite of the story you're trying to tell.

Second, AMC doesn't make any content. They fund it via production companies, just like Netflix.

Third, I don't understand your point about "forcing cable companies to carry a mixture". Cable companies pay AMCX for the right to carry AMC channels (AMC, Sundance, IFC, &c); that's a little more than half AMC's revenue. The other half of AMC's revenue comes from the ad inventory AMC sells on its channel.

These are probably nits, because ultimately your point about incompatible business models is correct.
There's xip.io, but you will have to hardcode your IP in there. e.g.,

subdomain.myapp.com.12.34.56.78.xip.io
I'm just pointing out that some risk is necessary and complete risk aversion can lead to undesirable outcomes. A lot of people here probably moved far from their home base to work at a startup for example. Some were exposed to completely new cultures and lost comforts of home because of it. If they did what their family or friends did they would have stayed home and not took the risk.

People from my home state think California is an awful place. I moved here for work and couldn't imagine living anywhere else--imagine if I'd of took their word.
That talk http://www.ted.com/talks/david_gallo_shows_underwater_astoni...
That still doesn't mean that it's a wise financial investment.
It could be worse. He could have gone and generated every possible email xxxxxx@hotmail.com xxxxxx@gmail.com xxxxxx@outlook.com, etc etc. And unsubscribed them all, stored their email addresses, and then subscribed them all to fox news newsletter.
sigh, all these "hackers" confused about the difference between a facebook app and a browser extension, confused about the difference between the app and the facebook page about the app ...

These comments are depressing as hell.

On topic: I'd just be happy you lasted this long with a facebook page for an extension that does this kind of thing. This gets you an extra bump in publicity and now you don't have the threat of this hanging over your head anymore. Is there anything that your users want that would really piss Facebook off that you can do now but were wary of doing before because of not wanting to push them too far? Aggressive ad filtering?
I'm going to back this up in so much as I have seen this happen in Houston, as far back as the early 90s. A bar will open, perhaps their DJ spins hip-hop, and a primarily African American clientele "discovers" the place. Management freaks out and either cracks down on the door policy or bans hip-hop so that portion of the clientele doesn't come back.

It sucks, and it is wrong.

Also, this is not every bar or club in the city. There are a lot of spots with a multi-racial clientele in Houston that have been rolling along for years (some of my friends bartend at them), but if you're into the "high end" clubs/lounges and that sort of thing then you will definitely run into this crap. But then, I've always thought of those places as pretty low class.
I don't think there's a technical solution to this problem. I'd love to be proven wrong.

The only thing that makes self learning remotely manageable is to break up your goals in to manageable chunks.

Half the solution to self-motivation is deriving a satisfaction from completing goals.

If you set your goals reasonable, it obviously isn't a silver bullet, but it helps ALOT.
The very day I ordered my Dell, I ordered a Macbook Air for my wife which shipped in 2 days.

The last time I ordered a customised Macbook, delivery took weeks (and was from China). This was some years ago though, so may no longer be accurate.

Seems the answer here would be for Dell to have 'off the shelf' laptops with standard configurations they can ship quickly. If they don't already, I'm kind of amazed.
Who says it has to be "routine" maintenance? It's obviously not; he's changing his key after 16 years. What's more likely is that he's just much more aware of his PGP key now than he was in the preceding years, because of the prominence he's taken in the story and the fact that he's now actively courting leakers.
Exhibit A: The .com bubble
That's not true, I've had no trouble writing very fast threaded C++ programs with the mongo client.
Your secrets are not safe against multinational corporations with 1024 bit keys. The likely cost of the capability to break a 1024 bit key is probably (for a private entity) in the low tens of millions. You wouldn't even be safe from the operators of HN with that margin of security.
One issue I have noticed is that people do not frequently update their keys from the key servers. Key revocation is not all that useful if you are not periodically checking for published revocations...
It's almost always time. There are peak times when lots of people use HN and upvote- if you submit outside of those times your link is likely to decay quickly.

(That said, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a negative factor associated for forbes.com. They've basically sold out their brand to clickbait nonsense)
Perhaps you've never been screamed at. Where by "screamed at" I mean "the recipient of uncontrolled, unfiltered, absolute maximum strength, irrational, untempered, terrifying rage." I don't believe that's ever appropriate.
My guess is that profits will be low. And they should be. Declared profits are basically a way of saying, "We can't figure anything more useful to do with this money than put it in the bank or give it back to our investors."

That's fine for a large company in a stable market. But Twitter is a young company battling to establish market share with products they hope will last for decades or centuries. [1] If the management really can't think of anything useful to do with cash, they should step down and help hire somebody who can.

[1] Yes, centuries. The New York Times started publishing in 1851. It's reasonable to think that the World Wide Web will have a historical place similar to print periodicals. And network-effect businesses are notoriously hard to dislodge once widely adopted.
Watch out guys Twitter is doing something different.

On the web there is far more money in direct response right now because that's the easiest to measure and we have the platforms well ingrained in all our systems.

To say that brand based advertising isn't required or has no place is contrary to everything we know about advertising. You don't see the coke logo 50 times a day for nothing.
far, far more diverse and integrated

Nothing says 'integrated' like "no black people allowed".
Ask HN: Career advice for a developer with 10+ years experience
I've come to an interesting point in my career and would appreciate peoples opinions on what I should do next.

I've been a professional software engineer for 12 years now, the last few years and positions considered "senior". Most of my background is C++ but in my spare time the last 3 or 4 years I've been doing a lot of web work using PHP, Javascript, Python.

I recently took a break to work on my own startup which hasn't taken off. This will be the 3rd time I've quit a job to work on a business which hasn't quite worked out.

It's time to start looking for work again, however I am having trouble deciding where I should focus. Should I stick to my tried and true (though somewhat rusty right now) C++ skills, or move on and make the commitment to web? I don't have much trouble picking up new skills so I'm always open to new ideas as well.

Anyone else been in a similar situation?

I have my concerns about getting too old in this industry (I'm early 30's right now) which tends to favor new college grads. My ultimate goal it to run my own business though I do need to pay the bills as well.

Overall, I feel my thoughts about what to do going round and around in circles so I've come here for help. Any advice or comments people can share with me would be greatly appreciated.
of course because you don't want to piss off your neighbors...
… because he gave "the money back to the shareholders".
One could argue that all the brain resources currently used on Wall Street are also wasted, when compared to the magnitude of the problems we're facing in other places.
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Seems like a waste to throw them away, but their not even worth posting on Amazon...
Is this where I can complain about Twitters Ad API still not being available to the general public?

You can build some amazing tools with the APIs Google and Facebook give you, but Twitter is off-limits unless you're an invited partner, of which there are only a handful (I think.)

They seem a little too content to keep it restricted.

And to at least make my missive vaguely related to your post - surely they'd get a lot of interesting ideas on how to revolutionize advertising if they allowed open experimentation.
I'm not sure you read the article. He did make an effort to reduce his ignorance. He was knowledgable on what was and was not edible. He had the same knowledge that everyone else had, prior to the investigation of his death. It is only after investigating his death that we know that eating those seeds, while in extreme caloric deficit, is dangerous.
If you want an SSD on PCIe, any reason why you are not looking at SSDs built into PCIe cards? E.g. OCZ Vector or RevoDrive PCIe cards, but there's several other alternatives too.
Why resubmit this when it spent all day yesterday on the front page with literally the exact same title which you apparently copied from that submission because it isn't on the Github page at all.
Looks to me that they just weren't attention grabbing headlines. There wasn't any indication in the first one that it was a Michael Dell quote, and the second one just sounds like a random analyst offering an opinion on what Dell should do (which is not very interesting).
I don't know why technologists would ever want a social norm of responding to security vulnerabilities by severely punishing the people "responsible" for them. It is highly, highly unlikely that anyone in the C suite made any decision which proximately caused this vulnerability.

Instead, it is likely that you're advocating for firing a modestly compensated engineer whose crime is shared by substantially every production system everywhere.
Not so useful if it's broken in the process...
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Or adapt... depending on how shallowly you demarcate a population of organisms and how initially resilient they are to the environmental change.
This is very common. Places particularly ban plain white t-shirts and baseball caps as it will keep out a segment of young black males. This isn't limited to white spots either, some clubs with a black clientele also enforce this ban.
> [it] should be easy to fix [...] the website [It] is absolutely awful.

That’s a comment I did not expect on Hacker News. I think it’s safe to say that the majority of HN commenters have some experience with web site development.

To do an overhaul on a site like DELL’s is a major undertaking. I wouldn't characterize it as ‘easy’. If their corporate structure even allows rethinking their online strategy, it will take considerable effort to get the site on par with the likes of Apple and Microsoft. Those, IMO, are best in breed. And DELL is certainly not alone, HP’s site is just as nightmarish.

If they ever desire to improve their brand identity (and subsequently, their website), they would do well to look at how Microsoft did it. Microsoft hired Pentagram[1] to completely rethink their aging brand and went from there. DELL’s brand could use a similar treatment.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagram_(design_studio)
This kind of horrible lifestyle is well-known to everyone applying for a job on Wall Street. Nevertheless, people still apply, and not out of desperation -- all of the successful applicants could get great jobs elsewhere.

There's no deceit here -- the investment banks clearly articulate what the lifestyle will be like, and people sign up for the pay. I know, I did an internship at Lehman Brothers and saw it firsthand -- people staying till 3am just to impress. I managed to keep my weekly hours under 40 by automating my job in Visual Basic, and then decided I wanted to make productivity tools for the general market instead of in-house.
Instead of rationalizing unnecessarily poor behavior, why don't you try not rationalizing unnecessarily poor behavior? It might turn out to be something you enjoy not doing.
You can buy a used low-end laptop for $100. With a laptop, you get a display, keyboard, and many other things a Pi doesn't offer.