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If you want it, you can make it happen. You're basically asking for a part-time contract programming gig (or whatever your specialty equates to); I've done those at times for tidy sums. Smaller '50s-ish homes exist and are quite affordable; you could also save up the cash and build your own (I just found a nice half-acre rural lot in driving distance of work for $1700, and a workable 2-story small-frame "house" is available from Home Depot for about $8000 (you add amenities over time)). Cars can be had cheap, downgrade to a cheap prepaid dumphone no-data plan, rediscover frugal living, and you'll work it out. I very nearly did the same, until I got married and she had pricier standards.

And once Obamacare kicks in, there might suddenly be a lot of companies looking for "part time" workers interested in 1950s-level health care plans (to wit: none). You asked at just the right time!
"Though they couldn't smell methane, they did put a match to the fissures from where the gas was oozing, and set it on fire."

You can't smell methane - it's an odorless gas. The methane you use for cooking ("natural gas") has an odor added to it artificially for safety.
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European Commission moving to expand Wi-Fi access to handle big-data demands.
Thanks, FWIW the link I linked to was an implementation I did a week or so ago.

I'm actually using a similar browser based curve implementation (I'm using the bezier rendering thing instead of a quadratic) -- https://github.com/ezl/signature-pad/blob/master/jquery.sign...

The first pad is the original that just draws lines between the sampled points.

The second 2 actually take points and compute a cubic spline that runs through all the sampled points. The problem I have though is that it takes 4 points to compute a bezier curve, which means there are at least 4 sampled points worth of lag in determining what curve to render on the canvas.

For example, 4 sampled points on a line should render a totally linear segment between the points, but then if the 5th points goes off the line, it actually impacts the preceding points -- so you have to lag even further to make draw the right curve.

Even if you wait every 3 points to determine a quadratic that canvas's built-in can render, it creates some lag between the current mouse position and the rendered curve.

If you keep rendering quadratics every 3 points, you'll get funny cusps where you join each of the quadratics (solution seemed to me to compute the spline for the fully determined segments of the curve).

My janky solution is "draw linear segments until I have enough data, then restroke it with pretty curves". I didn't really understand the full implementation under the "responsiveness" section on Square's blog post here http://corner.squareup.com/2012/07/smoother-signatures.html so I glossed over it since it wasn't super critical.

But then when I saw this link, I couldn't help but think -- oh man, that's sexy...
A problem I've found with testing Twilio using Ngrok is the latency; occasionally connections will get closed by Twilio by timing out before they even hit my machine.
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American newspaper headlines often use quotes in this way too. And those are often mistaken for scare quotes as well.
What? So if you are a lawyer things change?

Yes, if you convince the obstinate staffer that "This shit could get very real", they will adjust how they treat you.
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that's rough

they obviously only care about conversion and not validating the user before hand in (any) way, so brutal.

From verizon I got a similar answer they couldn't discuss my own account with me after me giving them my social and all that - wtf. i hung up and tried another service rep and they gave me too much of my own personal info with out verifying any of my personal details and anyone elses' on my plans, which is kind of scary (Wtf)

also i really really like the idea of daily backups to dropbox, with like 1TB of backups i need a solution, and this seems like a great one. thanks for coming up with that
I think the main catch here is that they're only willing to issue level 1 certs to individuals. For commercial endeavors, they make you pay money, and then they also have you send in proof of identity and stuff, and manually review your documents. I don't think there's a practical difference in security level, but I'm not an expert in this (which is why I don't address this aspect in my guide).
I think pretty much all of them are well aware that the cost of flying them to the Gulf far exceeds their savings and they won't have the funds to fly back of their own accord before their contract is up. It's not one of these trafficking situations where they've been told they've been found a nice domestic service job in the capital and they subsequently end up in an underground brothel in another country.

They have good reason to expect to have access to food and their post-deduction wages though.
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I think the root cert was added through Windows Update a to XP few years ago, so there's a decent chance boxes in the wild have.

SNI is still a no-go on XP though.
It is. The website is wrong. Assuming your browser implements it securely, it's no less safe than generating it client-side with openssl.
I used StartSSL certs on a few of my Webfaction-hosted websites with SNI. It was fairly simple, and considering the cost, an excellent service that I highly recommend.

One caveat is that the free certificate lasts only a year.
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Using HTTPS everywhere doesn't really help much. It doesn't help at all if the surveillers either have your cert or access to decrypted traffic inside the firewall. Any PII being sent over the wire should most definitely be encrypted, but encrypting my access to a news site isn't really hiding anything. The requested URL still need to be unencrypted, you'd just be encrypting content that is already availble unencrypted.
Depending upon how they do it, I don't think it would be a big deal, if you had a small road up overtop of say a tree, you would still clearly see the tree behind it.

Assuming that it is not a very "strong" image, I assume it has some transparency?
Thylacine looks like both dog and cat. Known as the Tasmanian tiger or alternatively the Tasmanian wolf.

Unfortunately it's extinct. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine
the ability to be thrown in jail for telling lies (about the Holocaust for example, which is a pretty awful thing to lie about).

(a) Holocaust denial is illegal in some European countries (not the UK), but it's illegal because it's been specifically made illegal, not a general "it's illegal to tell lies" law.

(b) USA has criminal slander laws as well.
what happens to fresh food and preservatives if you're not home?
Why is this even being posted? URU has been in this state for far more than a year now. Hardly news.
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Actually, CL goes a step further, which I like: by default, integer arithmetic is arbitrary precision. There are no overflows, unless you count running out of RAM to store your numbers as an overflow. Modular arithmetic must be explicitly specified, leaving no room for surprises:

(mod (+ x y) N)

The reason I prefer this behavior to C's is that it is more natural. Most of the time when we think of integer arithmetic, we do not assume that it is modulo N; we assume things like " x - 1 < x " will always be true. Forcing unexpected semantics on programmers is a recipe for bugs, and integer underflow/overflow bugs are not uncommon in C programs.
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Often it isn't, which is why there are so many WASs in existence.
> One-click deploys

How is this typically achieved?
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Because for years Google received unalloyed adoration from the tech community because they presented themselves as a genuinely better kind of company, but now that have shown themselves to be just another corporation that will say or do anything for profit, people are cynical about them.
I did it once about 1.5 years ago and the latency fucking killed me. Over a second is not ok. Need sub 200 ms.
This isn't strictly related to this post, but I've always thought that the idea of paying a fee for SSL certificates was a bad one. Time spent buying and setting up an SSL certificate would be better spent making your site available as a Tor hidden service.
trying it out, first thing I notice is that when I want to add something that isn't already built in it tells me "that source is already in the collection" when it clearly isn't
That joke is getting old.
There's a live image here you can give a shot: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/misc/promo-usb/gnome-3.10.iso

I think it's based on Fedora but I haven't tested it myself yet so I'm not sure.
> The requested URL still need to be unencrypted

The SSL connection is set up before the HTTP request is sent; that's why the dedicated IP per domain is required, since the domain (Host header) is part of the request as well. The URL you're accessing is not sent in the clear.
In the 21st century we have our boarding passes on our smartphones and when the gate changes, or the flight is delayed, we get an instant update.

Yes, I understand that many people don't have smartphones, but that'll be just one more reason to get one.

Let's spend our time making the smart phone app even better. Guide us to our gate, connecting flight, baggage pickup, etc.
I'm using Fedora 20 nightly now and it's working nicely. You can try it or the Alpha.
Or maybe you're jealous that you don't work there?
Well, I tried to use GNOME 3 and Unity, both had really annoying quirks, so I switched to GNOME Classic, which is essentially like GNOME 2.
> Every French person enjoys life, wants to work the less they could and they feel entitled for everything. More than half the people there work for the government and are more worried about their rights than what they could do.

I dont think so ,french people are not lazy at all , and it's common for employees in a private business to do extra hours FOR FREE !!! yes for free. And we dont take 3 hour breaks for lunch, we eat at the office. Whatever you heard about french public service is not true in any private business in France, people work very hard.
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This seems off topic to me and I don't feel like it follows the guidelines.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The thing I that bothers me is I get sucked into these off topics sensational stories.
I really wonder what it looked like as it happened - if it was instantaneous or if it was gradual, was there a cloud of steam, etc.
could any seismologists / other geographers go into some more detail: pockets of inflammable gas are stored under 200m of seafloor, seismic activity heats them up and they rise the whole seabed to the ocean surface. and then drift down again?

I can't say its making a lot of sense. what is the inflammable gas? not methane presumably. I guess it's some form of honeycombed rock with lots of little pockets, presumably lava that has rolled over seabed, so not really "attached". I mean how does it all work?

(and that's the driver for all science in a nutshell)
I agree that lots of companies claim to be part of the sharing economy, when really, they're not.
It's not a new Island. The last time it appeared was back in late 2010. It's simply resurfaced.
There is always the possibility of a fourth Punic war...
I had a similar experience when I purchased a software signing certificate from Comodo, exacerbated by the fact that we had accidentally transposed two adjacent digits in the phone number we gave in our listing. It ended up taking about two weeks in all to get Dun & Bradstreet to correct the typo and have Comodo verify the update, and then call us at that number. While the delay was not pleasant, I am glad that they make an effort to ensure that a legitimate organization is purchasing the certificate.
If the information is public, what's the difference? Any citizen could issue the same request and get the same list. You say it's "their data" but the point of FOIA is to free the data. Would it be wrong to publish a page from the White Pages listing names and phone numbers?
The article does not include the ".com"
Saw their booth at TC Disrupt. Looked pretty cool. Wanted to try, but no one was available.
The "backwards" electrons can't be just "forwards" electrons with opposite spin, for two reasons:

(1) Ordinary "forwards" electrons exist in both spin states, and both states have negative charge, not positive charge. So the anti-electrons that we observe with positive charge can't be just ordinary electrons with their spins flipped.

(2) The spin reversal operator (also called the "parity operator") is unitary, but the time reversal operator, the one that changes a "forward" electron into a "backward" electron, is anti-unitary. So they can't possibly be the same operator.
Hence the old mathematicians' joke:

I say, I say, I say, can you find an anagram of BANACH-TARSKI?

Yes: BANACH-TARSKI BANACH-TARSKI.

(Mathematicians' sense of humour doesn't necessarily resemble anyone else's.)
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Obligatory Wikiquote "List of misquotations":

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/List_of_misquotations
You had the job title "senior web engineer" when the web was 4 years old. That's pretty cool.

Well normally they only hired people with 6+ years of solid web development experience as senior engineers (just like no one today would think of hiring a senior Node.js developer with less than 5 years under the belt). But they decided to give the article poster a break for his people skills and Team Player potential.
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I think that'd probably be inappropriate for C's use cases, but I think generally it's a good move. I do like encoding the modular behavior in the type, FWIW; specifying a mod manually everywhere it goes leads to unreadable code. I agree, however, that it should probably not be the default type.
Yup. The blog post was posted on 2010-02-04 19:15:47 UTC (http://feeds2.feedburner.com/uru).
I have a sneaking suspicion it's another one of those cognitive biases - get off a boat onto land and you feel safer. even if the boat will still be floating years after the land is.

You would be a fool to try the match trick in your apartment, but on an island? we just don't have that much experience of the earth blowing up around us.

then again the group of people who are first onto a volcanic island that popped out of the sea are a pretty self selecting bunch of foolhardy idiots :-)
Sure, not contending there is userland, just wondering if there is any interesting userland that Valve develops. They won't be open sourcing steam, so the fact that they release their build of X windows that is exactly the same as upstream isn't very interesting.
Ask HN: How long can the feds hold seized property after a case is closed?
Created a throwaway for this question. How long can federal agents legally hold on to seized property (via search warrant) after the end of a case? The case never made it to trial, and was "concluded" after a mediation with the agents & DOJ rep. It has been over a year and no property has been returned as yet, and the investigation is not on going.
"Buy land, they're not making it anymore." - Mark Twain

Another real estate cliché proven wrong ;-)
I don't remember the details of the ending since it has been a few years since I played it.

This is a big problem with this long dev cycles. There are a few games where I was a big fan of the previous games but when the sequels eventually came, I had lost interest because I couldn't remember the precious game's story and did not want to replay it. Of course nowadays I'd just get the rundown online or watch the ending on youtube, but unless you're a big fan, it IMHO still dampens the excitement somewhat. At least for me.
OK so NIST-SHAKE512-[0 <= bit < 256] is basically what was proposed as round 3 Keccak-256.

But it's a) unwieldy to specify, and b) reveals the output of NIST-SHAKE512-[0 <= bit < 128] unlike other truncated hash standards.

Note: I am definitely not saying this is the end of the world.
StartSSL will also refuse to give you a certificate based on some sort of blacklist of words, which they won't disclose. I remember they didn't even want to tell me why they refused my domain, I had to send many emails asking for more information, until the guy answering finally decided to tell me.
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Just going to throw out that if you use a Cloudflare business plan, you can just tick a couple of boxes and get SSL for free.
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This article doesn't mention Oracle's cheating and penalties. Welcome to America, competitors!
> Is it fair to tyrannically close someone’s account up and accuse him or further treat him as a liar ?

Isn't this what Google does on a daily basis to users of their various services? There seem to be no consequences for them and less than zero interest in improving any of it.

There are companies that can cause your business untold financial damage through these kinds of actions. For some reason they continue to evade responsibility in financial, moral and ethical terms. It sucks.
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The Ouya GPU pushes 12 GFLOPs (gamecube, original xbox quality).

The GPUs in the 5S give 76 GFLOPs and are underclocked at 300 Mhz for battery reasons. A hypothetical A7X which, following the A6X, has twice as many GPUs as the A7, would put us at 150 GFLOPs.

Keep in mind the A6X is still on a mobile device. Up the clock speed to 500 Mhz and we've arrived at 250 GFLOPs. This is comparable to the PS3 (230) and 360 (260) and the assumptions seem pretty reasonable.

GFLOPs aren't the whole story but it's important to understand what class of machine Apple could ship now. It's certainly console quality. Specwise it won't hold a candle to the PS4 (1.8 TFLOPs), at least in 2013/14. But as we learned last generation the new stud consoles often trail not only underpowered upstarts (Wii) but sometimes their own previous generation consoles due to supply or price issues.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ps2+outsells+ps3&safe=active

And in terms of price Apple could ship the system we're talking about with a decent amount of RAM and a controller for $149. Of course they won't even market it primarily as a gaming device so it would probably ship without a (gaming) controller for $129+.
If a very small number of people keep making large numbers of requests that bog down the team working on fulfilling them, it might make sense to prioritize requests from other people instead.
I appreciate your detailed response! I should not have been so dismissive of those users. Still, I maintain that the "extra cost for a dedicated IP" is a poor excuse for not implementing SSL.
I'm more concerned with the prospect of needing to buy both a PC and a Steambox to play games.
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At the cost involved it might be worth retro-fitting a Google Glass instead of a proprietary helmet and unproven navigation system (motorcyclists are picky about helmets).
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Where have I expressed outrage? Also you are clearly highly technology literate, so you understanding something is not representative of what regular users understand when they click through an agreement.
I'm not who you were asking, but I like Maximus and "Hide Top Bar". Maximum screen real estate for working.
Ask HN: Hack my weight with a sleeve gastrectomy?
I have been overweight my whole life. I'm now 53 years old and contemplating a sleeve gastrectomy[1] as a means to lose about 60lbs. Currently, my BMI is 35 or so, I'm 5'6" and 220 lbs.

The person I spoke with[2] said that they will remove about 80% of my stomach, and I should experience most of the weight loss in the first 12 - 18 months.

A few years ago I was really good about exercising, eating Paleo-ish, and taking supplemental testosterone. I wound up losing about 30 lbs, and felt great. Over time, though, I have put it back on.

I'd welcome your thoughts on this. Life is short and I'm unwilling to stay at my current weight.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleeve_gastrectomy

[2] http://pugetsoundbariatrics.com/lapsleeve
It may have had something to do with the Google Reader shutdown. The reason I say this, is that I just recently launched an RSSOwl instance, where I had populated RSSOwl with a list of feeds some time ago... including quite a few Google Alert RSS feeds. Strangely none of the Google Alerts were working, and when I started investigating, I found that all of them had a path that included something like

$BLAH/reader/$BLAH

which suggests that, when those feeds were originally created, the delivery mechanism somehow involved GReader.

I went back to Google Alerts and re-copied each of the feed URLs and see that in the new URLs, the path looks like:

$BLAH/alerts/$BLAH

Not definitive, but it hints at some kind of connection.
Where did the comments for this article go? There were several here this morning.
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Some would argue# that the compiler lays the cement.

#have argued, actually
But the article is talking about a single electron on a twisted path that is intersected by the projection surface[1] of reality.

Your statement (1) depends on the existence of multiple electrons, where the whole idea of this article idea is that only one electron exists, which is where my argument comes from.

(2) sounds like math and not something physical or 'real'. If this operator actually existed in reality such that a single electron's spin can be flipped by applying it to an actual physical electron? I'll answer that by saying, I doubt it, but I am not a particle physicist.

If this operator does exist, then one could not say that there was a single electron on a path, unless all electrons in the universe changed spin direction instantly after the application such an operator.

[1] Edit: changed 'plane' to 'surface'.
Agreed, just pointing out that the lack of support for free services is not specific to DO.
situations where electrons and anti-electrons form "closed loops" in time.

A Quantum Loooooop! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rjbtsX7twc&t=1m23s
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My point about it being their data to track was in regard to the tone of this whole topic... like "holy shit the FBI is tracking the people that make a lot of FOIA requests!" not any sort of ownership of the data. Who cares that they keep a list of people who make requests? I'm not even sure how they would go about fulfilling the requests if they didn't keep some sort of lists. And sure anyone can request the list. But a lot of arguments against mass surveillance are rooted in the idea that technology has made it far easier today to track someone than it was years ago. So the issue seems to be more along the lines of "it is just too easy now so we need to stop it". So now... this published doc makes it all too easy to get the info... compared to everyone who wanted to know requesting it themselves. I see a bit of hypocrisy in this. But that is just my opinion of the situation.
I found substantial difference between machines (and OS's). It was quite slow in a Lenovo x220 running Linux, and much better on a mac mini (running MacOS).
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