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>Why do I get the feeling that the "green" in the accounts on this sub-thread, smell like "astroturf"?

Because you are intellectually lazy, and prefer to question people's motives than to engage with the substantive points they make.

>We get a guy who claims he is an econ PHD (no email, no proof of that).

I never claimed to have a PhD (try parsing my username differently), and I have no intention of releasing any private information.

>Obviously you haven't read Keynes, or you have at least referenced his warning: [warning]

Your patronizing tone is unhelpful and completely unjustified. Neo-Keynesianism is the dominant school of thought in academic macroeconomics. It refers to the synthesis of some of the ideas of Keynes with microeconomic theory. Not everything that Keynes ever said is relevant to neo-Keynesianism, and his original works are not usually studied by graduate students in economics.

On the warning itself, he is referring to something very different from the practices of today's reserve banks. Inflation has been below 4.1% for the last 10 years, while he describes a situation where the "real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month". While his warning is not relevant to the current situation, his argument is entirely correct.

That said (and this is not really what Keyne's point was), even steady inflation, adjusted according to economics conditions, does redistribute wealth. Traditionally the fed used open market operations to change interest rates, and I believe that because these are done through the market, economists have assumed the re-distributional effects are not important. The current actions of the Fed are different, since they clearly benefit certain groups, such as the people issuing the bonds that the Fed buys, possibly including Buffet or even myself. But for this very reason, Buffet, the Fed, and almost all economists want this phase to be over as soon as possible.
A child will not get shot or kidnapped for not having a cell phone, and those who will ostracize your child because of the technology they don't have don't deserve to be your kid's friend anyhow. One could say that there is an ostensible social and security risk in not having a cell phone compared to if one didn't have a cell phone, but the risk really is very low, and if that level of risk disturbs you, an el-cheapo prepaid phone with no minutes on it (just 911) will suffice. I think people forget that we lived not even as early as 5 years ago where smartphones were not considered a necessity. Kids did fine with basic or no cell phones at all.

And before you pull the "Did you forget 7th grade" argument, I'm in high school. I only own an unactivated iPhone for development and testing, and really never call anyone.
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I think the real joy of vim is in the next level, when you start depending less on movement commands in favor of text objects.
This apparently happens in p90x as well. The culture of mostly unathletic people trying to do extremely athletic things without any training beforehand is foolish and stupid.

The one thing p90x gets more right than apparently Crossfit does is the videos tell you to take breaks and go at your own pace. If you cant do 50 pushups in 90 seconds, do what you can. "do your best, forget the rest." is the refrain Tony uses, which is a lot smarter than telling people to push beyond their limits no matter what their body tells them.
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"given the second law of thermodynamics"

It doesn't apply to earth. It's not a closed system. Species don't adapt in 5 years, they do it over millions. I guess you're American?
"when did parents decide they should accept parenting advice from a comic who's act is extremely child unfriendly?"

Parenting advice is for parents, whether his stage act is child friendly is completely immaterial.
HN's owner (YCombinator) also owns a stake in Scribd.
I highly don't recommend using a starter kit, and particularly Janus. Janus started out ok but quickly morphed into an amalgamated mess of crap.

The only thing I recommend is Pathogen which keeps addons modular. From there only add things to the baseline as needed.
Regarding the slide about Kathy Sierra, find a spare hour and watch this video:

http://businessofsoftware.org/2013/02/kathy-sierra-building-...

Her talk alone justified every penny I spent going to BoS last year.
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The public is, honestly, incapable of understanding, or even caring, about underlying issues in proxy temperature modeling. A large amount of the public is incapable of distinguishing between weather and climate.

Proxy temperatures, statistical methods, atmospheric modeling, etc, are all scientific areas whose knowledge can be gleamed at sufficiently well for a person with some form of higher education in science or math education (but only barely; remember that this stuff is being researched by people who have devoted their entire lives to the scientific specialty). But that is an astoundingly low proportion of the population. And even then it is clear that, as methodological errors have diminished and methods for more accurate models have appeared, that they all tend towards the same conclusion.

We should be worrying significantly more about the small but non-trivial (and ever-increasing) probability of an extinction event within the next decades rather than pretend that methodological errors, at this point, are a significant issue in identifying the climate trends we have spotted in the last decades.
Really? After nearly 6 years on Hacker News? I should get an award! (Though I suspect you are exaggerating, so there will be no prize for me tonight.)

Since you don't like it, take out all references to it. I said "I agree that people are responsible for their own well-being in training [but] they are also partially responsible for the well-being of others." Surely that's a stand-alone statement.

The rest of my post gave examples in an exercise context where I think it would be unconscionable to say "Each person is responsible for their own actions. ... you have no one to blame but yourself."

The entire point of the essay is, of course, that at some point "encouraging someone to improve themselves" may become "encouraging someone to hurt themselves". At some point there can be a justifiable claim of culpability, and coaches have been sued for bad advice.

To deny that culpability doesn't exist, and that it's only the person's recklessness which caused the problem is to be blind to both ethics and the law.
This is fantastic, thanks for sharing. Now I just wish there were something like this for Python/Django...
I'll let you in on a secret.

You are likely boring in person, so your friends turn to little pocket computer games to entertain themselves instead. Your friends are also rude little kids that lack the ability to control themselves.

Either way you all will grow out of it.

You'll get old and boring, and those computer games turn into little email and skype apps where you constantly have to maintain for the sake of a job because your work life balance is whackadoodle. But for the most part you'll grow out of caring about your little phone because... here's the god honest truth... it's all pretty boring.

Louis CK didn't tap into some new found glory, but at 19 you think he did, not realizing this just yet another repost, an old truth we keep rediscovering... that kids these days are always little tyrants.

Socrates said it. Plato quoted it. Every single generation thereafter grow up and comment about it. Way back it was books of "questionable" morals and alcohol. Back then it was gangsta rap and MTV. Nowadays it's Farmville and iPhones. Next it's going to be fake realities and fake projections.

There is always going to be something made by somebody else to distract you.

It'll be okay.

Take a deep breath.

It'll be okay.

You're on a fast track ticket to being old.
Seconded. This is anecdotal evidence. If the poster is making it to interview I would be willing to wager that the interview itself is leading to the lack of success rather than the degree. In other words, if there was an inherent bias against doctorates then why would a company waste additional resources in an interview?
Humans are either fully part of the natural process, or everything we do interferes with it.

There's a very real choice about how we want to change the environment of the earth, but lets not couch it in meaningless terms like natural vs. unnatural.

Hunter gatherer societies are no more natural/unnatural than cities.
Illiquid bonds are only hard to spend now, but not necessarily unprofitable in the long run, especially if you can buy them cheap.
There's a lot of (understandable given the user base) bias in HN towards startups and the software industry, where you don't exactly need a PhD to crank out the next social media app or whatever. Therefore people will emit opinions based on their experiences, which might explain the negativity that you perceive. However, as you point out, in pretty much any other field of engineering, PhD hires are a most if you are pushing the frontier and producing genuine research.
Thank you. I got more from this comment than the article.
My view, having read most of the prosecution's statement, as well has having chatted with weev about this, is that the system was open to the public.

Here's why. The prosecution details the steps Spitler took: downloading the iPad image, decrypting it, finding the url the system used (I'm guessing by running strings), and then spoofing an iPad browser request via the user agent string, and providing the userid to obtain an email address.

IANAL, but it seems that they are maybe trying to make the case that the user agent string was equivocal to a password, or that decrypting the image was the point of exceeding access. If decrypting the image was the issue, then I imagine this would be placed with all the other similar cases (DeCSS, etc), but it wouldn't constitute identity fraud. If the user agent string is seen as the password, then that is the weakest security system I've ever seen.

I haven't actually kept up with how AT&T apparently fixed it, but it seems that a rational response to this would be to make users authenticate with their own password BEFORE it spits out information like an email address. If you don someone's userid but have no password (or session id token, etc), I'd suggest that's impersonation, but not identity theft or fraud. If we're going to criminalize impersonation, I guess the Saturday Night Live cast needs to find a new career.

That said, I totally understand why weev contacted reporters and not AT&T. We're in an age where contacting large corporations about security fixes typically results in a gag order on the security researcher and no fix (hi Cisco). By contacting a reporter, he increased the chance that the story would get out and AT&T would fix the issue.

Finally, a lot of people have suggested that weev "deserved" to go to jail for other things he's done. I'm not denying he's a troll, and he has done some over the top things. However, it's not illegal to be a troll, and while one might say he should be in jail for other things he has done, he is currently in jail for this. IMHO, the punishment not only outweighs the crime, but in conjunction with the other abuses of CFAA prosecution we've seen lately (such as Aaron Swartz), I think it's time we stop allowing the government to use poster children like weev as punching bags for obvious career boosting agendas.
Well said.

About a year ago I walked into "my" bank (hah!) and a guy pulled me over to his desk and "invited" me to sign a form (he said was mandatory) accepting or rejecting a $35 "overdraft insurance" fee. I "invited" him to check his computer and see how many overdrafts I'd had in the past 10 years ... and that my "insurance" was keeping my checkbook balanced.

Not sure what game was afoot there, but I'd bet that some of the people who were treated to that strong-arm tactic resigned themselves to paying that monthly graft. Vampire squid indeed.
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One of the funniest/saddest parts of how RIM treated developers was that initially there was something like a $250 fee to get into their developer program, and then you only got something like 5 app submissions/updates. You then had to pay for more submissions/updates. I believe they suspended this policy around the time they launched the BB Playbook, but compared to distributing through Google Play or the Apple App store, it was surprisingly ridiculous.

Also, Window's Store developer setup experience was pretty embarrassing as of a year or so ago.

If you want your ecosystem to do well, nail the developer onboarding experience, not just the getting started docs but the whole end to end experience. As a multiplatform developer, it makes a huge difference to where I want to develop for.
This lists which companies have certified implementations, not which products relies on which CSPRNG/s by default. I think there are already internal code audits underway by some of the listed entities, if not, it would be wise to get started real quick before customer anger arrives.

If this is not a clear impetus for open source, eg, publicly audit-able code >>> trade secrets, I think we should keep blindly accepting black box solutions, from chip to app. No funny business ever happens without transparency.
I use Vim but I don't understand why people try to force themselves to use it. If you are comfortable with another editor, then go ahead, keep using it. Everyones treats Vim as if it's some hallowed apex of programming ability, and that eventually you have to be weaned from your inferior Sublime or Textmate usage. Sure, Vim is awesome, but the idea that you _must_ sooner or later learn it is wrong. Unless of course you really are interested in Vim for what it offers and not just for its reputation.
Making all the text of these docs searchable from a single webpage would be lovely..
It does seem that way, however, much of the honey appeared to be contaminated or adultered and passed of as higher quality.
Has anyone noticed that thanks to AutoRip, you can often more cheaply get MP3s by buying the physical CD than you could by buying the MP3s directly?
I agree so much with this. When someone new to Vim touches it they should start out with a blank slate.
Is there any justification to your comments? Your criticisms on the crypto have all been debunked by those who know the crypto. See here for an example: http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/810438785....

Again, I am open to valid criticisms. Those of the form "this is stupid because XSS isn't solved" aren't valid in my book because they are orthogonal problems, and progress along either axis is good.
This, if true at all, is a very unique characteristic of the software industry. In pretty much any other place, you need advanced degrees if you are doing new and genuine research
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Agreed. I am open to valid criticisms on the crypto and/or implementation shortfalls, but unjustified comments don't help.
From the article: "It’s so rare that one study reported the overall annual incidence of rhabdomyolysis to be 0.06%"

Crossfit reports only 5 cases up till May 2005: http://library.crossfit.com/free/pdf/38_05_cf_rhabdo.pdf

I wonder how the numbers stack up after taking into account only the population that does some form of exercise.
> Arrogant? All I did was graph long term data and present it, observing that people freak when it shows something other than what their doctrine insists.

You're arrogant because you believe that a single graph disproves or even begins to question the work of hundreds of doctoral and post-doctoral theses and thousands of man-years of research by people much smarter and informed than what you may find in this thread.

And while there are certainly many fields of human endavour with questionable analysis, climate science is not one of them.
There are a couple of questions.

The first is whether the Verizon warrant would have been considered ok to the founders. The answer is an easy "no." We have there essentially a general warrant, something they were quite familiar with and which they put in prohibitions regarding in the 4th Amendment. There is no serious question that the founders would be deeply concerned over the existence of such a warrant and nearly entirely opposed to such.

However the harder question would be whether the Founders would have found the surveillance authorized by the warrant to be problematic even without a warrant or what they would have thought of the warrant. That's the big question and I don't have an answer there. I do think that the programs would almost certainly have been extremely controversialin part at least due to the existence of secret courts and wide-ranging warrants.
(A good parallel might be software designed to continue to operate properly regardless of hardware malfunction.)
And that is just those on Github.
Absolutely. What makes (non-vocal) music "sad" is not inherent in the scales or harmonies used but in culturally-conditioned responses to them. The sad part is that some people can't enjoy truly beautiful music because of that kind of conditioning.
One of the best resources I used to build up my vim customizations was probably this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZuy4gBghho.
It's got a lot of good stuff in it
What's frustrating for me is that the Commerce Department never releases any data when they levy anti-dumping tariffs. U.S. tariffs against Chinese solar cells is a great recent example. Where is the evidence that Chinese companies are actually dumping, rather than simply being cheaper?
I do have to hand it to you, you are an expert troll. Congrats.
According to this http://wealthcycles.com/features/cypress-bailout-deal-is-pil... deposits under 100,000 euros were exempt, with a 40% forfeiture of amounts over 100,000. There were other proposals, but that appears to have been the actual outcome.
Good lord, what is with all the Crossfit hate? I've been an avid crossfiter for over 3 years and I've never once had an injury. As with all workouts, you need to listen to your body. It doesn't matter who prescribes them - whether it be Crossfit, Men's Health or GQ Magazine, your general practitioner, Tony Robbins, or your best friend BodyBuilder Bob. Listen to your body. If something hurts, stop. If you're too sore to move, rest. If you're hungry, eat.

All this talk about Crossfit being the problem is b.s. You have a choice.
I'm wondering why he even appealed this. Seemed pretty straight forward what he did. What exactly is he appealing on? He was only sentenced to 3 years. He'd be out in less than 2 if he stays out of trouble. For a hacker, I'd say he got off pretty light considering what others have gotten.
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Totally missed the mark. Blackberry was the ultimate email machine. They created a high quality, easy to use and secure device for communicating with email, phone and pin. As a company you could deploy like 100k of the things with two FTEs supporting them.

They didn't see the world beyond that. There wasn't an even reasonably decent browser in 2009, when I stopped caring. Apple and android changed everything by creating an Internet consumption device.

Blackberry killed blackberry.
I got pretty proficient at vim using basically the defaults (I added tabs to spaces and tab width to 4 spaces, and auto/smart indent in the .vimrc). These are the keys I use regularly. If you can memorize these, you can use vim proficiently:

h/j/k/l (movement keys)
i (insert mode)
esc (leave current mode/go to default state)
u (undo)
>> / << (indent, unindent)
dd (delete line)
yy (copy line)
p (paste)
v (visual mode, used to highlight stuff)
gg (go to beginning of file)
G (go to end of file)
r (replace the char under the cursor with the next char entered)
% (jump to next paren/bracket, or if on a paren/bracket, jump to matching paren/bracket)
w (go to next word)
dw (delete word)
cw (change word (deletes the word then goes into insert mode))
A (append (goes to the end of the line and into insert mode)
0 (go to beginning of line)
$ (go to end of line)
/some_word (searches for some_word, hit n to jump to the next occurrence)
?some_word (searches for some_word, in reverse direction)

Common commands:

:%s/regex/replacement/g (replace regex matches with replacement)
:q (quit)
:q! (quit without saving)
:w (save)
:wq (save then quit)
:x (save then quit)
:set blah (turns on setting blah)
:set noblah (turns off setting blah)

Most vim commands you can stick a number N before to execute N times.

e.g. 5d deletes 5 lines. 5y copies 5 lines. 5> indents 5 lines. 5j jumps down 5 lines. Some common command combinations:

%v%> (jump to next bracket, go into visual mode, jump to next bracket (highlighting everything in between), then indent it all)

ggdG (jump to top, then delete everything to the end of file, (clears a file))

ddp (deletes a line of text and then pastes it (below where it currently it), thus this transposes two lines)

You can see how you quickly develop strings of commands you rattle off by chaining basic commands together.

EDIT (joke):

Q. How do you algorithmically generate a cryptographically strong random string?

A. Put a newbie in front of vim.
Kind of my "no bullshit" method/strategy. Hope it helps... it has for me!
This. 1000x this. The history is amazing once you dig in just a little.
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Also, I found this Founder's Wiki by the OP to be a good reference:

http://founderswiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
IIRC there is a YouTube plugin for Plex, but honestly I don't watch YouTube on the television so it does not affect my use-case.
LinkedIn sued by users who say it hacked their e-mail accounts
There are many things one can do with your PII besides using it for identity theft, including publishing it, which is NOT illegal in many states.
I find it hard to disagree with Louis on this one. Overstimulation is a thing, and we live in a culture where the common case is for a room full of people to be staring at hunks of plastic instead of talking to one another. Let's be honest, given cellphones children are most likely to cyberbully, sext and drastically increase the intensity of the social feedback loop that is adolescence.

Internet access in any form factor can be a gateway to all of the world's knowledge, but the majority of people don't use 4G connections for high minded purposes. I personally have a hard time coming up with a case where an internet connected cell phone is absolutely necessary for anything. In my experience I've usually been able to wait until I get home (with the exception of looking up lost directions).

All of that being said, I don't think cellphones will bring about the end of childhood. "If everybody else is doing it..." isn't the worst argument when it comes to teenaged children, especially for larger values of "everyone else". If cellphones are truly harmful to child development then we're all screwed anyway. The overwhelming majority of teenagers have phones now... what's the point of one person teaching their kids how to communicate the old fashioned way if everybody else in the world is glued to a small screen?

Like everything else that children will be exposed to, cellphones are a matter of self control. It seems like it would be better to have long two way conversations with children about how to socialize properly and how they can be better than their tech-addicted friends. It's possible that forbidding the phone is a parenting easy out. It could take more time and effort to raise children who can resist the siren call of facebook updates.

We shouldn't confuse nostalgia for strong values. There has to be a balance between standing up for what we believe in as parents and giving children an experience that's consistent with the century that they were born in.