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It seems that acqq meant to ask where you might find exactly 1/10, 1/2 or .1 of something in nature.

I'm thinking maybe in stoichiometry?
This is how a Helsingin Sanomat journalist tried to save Nokia
> I don't think DRM and free software may coexist

They clearly can coexist and interact, but you can't use Free software to implement DRM without defeating the purpose of DRM.

The point of the standard isn't to support Free DRM, its to provide a standard interface for browsers, which may be Free software, to interact with systems providing DRM, so that a desire to use DRM for particular content does not lead to a need to implement anything besides the DRM portion outside of standards-compliant browsers.
There was a great documentary about it actually:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Democracy

Don't call people stupid.
You were probably thinking of Feynman. From Wikipedia[1]:

In high school, his IQ was determined to be 125—high, but "merely respectable" according to biographer James Gleick.[14]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman#Education
Why isn't this the main election story (or even on the first page) when you search Google News for Azerbaijan?
Can this be explained simply? I took physical chemistry and it sounds related to calculating energy changes for ionization or electrons moving between orbitals.
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Check out this landing section[1], you can find most of our main features there.

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Thanks for answering! I felt glassdoor was full of sour grapes, and didn't really share much about culture...wondering about alternatives...
Yeah, it would look subversive on the part the developer. Not a good career move in the best of circumstances, which these are clearly not. I could definitely see this happening with the developer's best intentions, and not as part of a rigging conspiracy.

None of that is to say that Azerbaijan's democracy isn't largely fake or that the elections are not, in fact, rigged; it's just that this particular mistake may not an expression of it.
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He contradicts himself in the text:

#1: > So we put the user first, but different users have different preferences. Putting the user first doesn’t help us to satisfy users’ possibly incompatible wants: some Web users like to watch big-budget movies at home, some Web users like to experiment with code.

#2: > No one likes DRM as a user, wherever it crops up.

DRM never means putting users first - it's always anti user, for which #2 precisely attests. So, #1 had to read: "we put DRM lobby first". That sounds about right about what they did. And, DRM obviously goes way beyond just preventing tinkering with the code in its anti user nature.

So this principle is clearly violated: In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementers over specifiers over theoretical purity. Users don't want DRM. Users want media. Publishers want DRM. Putting users over publishers means showing publishers the door, until they come back with DRM free content. Publishers will bend since DRM is idiocy and always was, W3C shouldn't bend.
This isn't politics, it just has to do with a government.

Politics would be an article arguing why it's unfair that the President rigged the election. They mention the background political information because THAT'S GOOD JOURNALISM. You need to have that background information about the political climate to understand what's the importance of what's happening.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6524430 .
What I would be interested in is to have a religious scientist explain how he can choose to believe (for example in an afterlife) against statistical significance. I for one can't shut down my way of reasoning when it comes to religion, no matter how much I would like to.
I especially like how Reddit has a special sub for each of the actual Comp Sci subfields one might care about, and they're actually active. /r/compsci is the root, then I can hit /r/systems, /r/osdev, /r/types, /r/scala, /r/haskell, blah blah blah blah.
Thanks!

And debug mode is off now :)
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> virtually

... so you're telling me that the elections were virtually different, and not actually different. In other words, there were almost some differences between the two.
Well what do they teach in schools?

When I was attaining my degree during the end of the last century, Java (and XML) was being trumpeted as the saving grace for all soon to be software professionals. We were all in love OO programming and this scratched us right where C++ left an itch. Oh Java Beans and Servlets, how we loved thee.

It’ll take decades before all the code created by those who came right before me and soon after is gone and we’re gone before Java is considered dying/dead.

From what I see the new generation wasn’t forced to learn Java and doesn’t want to use Java.
Somebody who was involved with fixation of election results :)

Not that I think he deserves being murdured. Of course not.

But, he was betraying his fellow countrymen by 'pushing to a database'. I dont think he really deserve's that sympathy.
Sounds great, just as long as Mozilla doesn't jump the gun and brazingly decide to implement WebP support before having waited at least five or six years. Due diligence baby, the name of the game, also etiquette, over at bugzilla.
I think it's sol!
i am a full stack php/nodejs/python developer with nearly 8 years experiences ... currently working on my own cool product.

i am really interested and would love to share ideas with you guys ... my issue that i am out of the states , from jordan just let me know if you ready to hear from hackers outside the US.
doh!! Signed up for a trial just to realize yesgraph's a linkedin message cannon >:(
Rogers voice/txt service down for most of Canada.
That takes all of the fun out of it. BTW this weekend I will be updating the build docs for people wanting to compile B2G targets under Ubuntu Server 13.10-beta2.
I've learned over the years as a creative director that there are just some clients who get it and some that don't.

The clients who do get it will invite the design team to their production meetings; they'll include us on key decisions (for example, "should we have feature x?"), and they'll expect us to contribute to the overall product, NOT just in design, but also in functionality.

The clients that don't get it? You get a stack of content and a list of demands, along with phrases (that we now use freely around the office) like "jazz it up" and "make it more FUN!" Those are the clients that think great designers are found on Dribbble and that my team always needs to be "pushed" to produce "fun, exciting, INNOVATIVE" design. In reality, we just take our effective, well-executed design and practically roll the dice to see which Dribbble style du jour we can slap on it.

So, in a kind of weird way, Dribbble makes my job a lot easier in terms of showing me how to make my work shittier so that it's accepted by dumbass clients. For that, I am thankful.
Sounds right, 9v batteries aren't about current, never were. They are about voltage, that's even why they have the voltage in the name unlike basically every other kind of battery. Inside though, they're just coin cells in rolls. Cells are 1.5v each, so you need a stack of them to get to 9v. You wouldn't expect a stack of coin cells to put out a lot of current would you?

I think a lot of people think voltage means power, so the 9 volt battery probably sounds much more powerful than a 1.5v AA, but they don't realize the 9v has a bunch of smaller cells and the internal resistance is a lot higher, reducing the current output capabilities. I had a guy tell me one time I should hop up the strength of my walking robot by replacing my 6 AA cells with a 9v. :)
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Aside - I miss the paper Dr. Dobbs' Journal from the early nineties. Is there a modern equivalent?
Your intuitive notion of intelligence is "something one can train"? So then muscular strength is intelligence?
I suggest you keep iterating on it. There will always be bugs to fix and improvements to make. You've shown it on HN and got some feedback, so show it to other people. See if they can understand how to use it or if you need to add some cues to guide them how to use it. If users need to watch a video on how to use something I think that might indicate a UX problem.

The first thing I noticed was what anigbrowl mentioned about moving the mouse off the branch. The branch should stay open even if the mouse deviates a little bit.

You should pretty it up a bit. I didn't understand the color theme. Seems like there are different shades of green but they intensity of the colors aren't aligned to the scale. Also the pin icon looks out of place.

Good work I like the idea. Just don't give up on it.
First, you're missing the other hit story, the one he was actually charged with, where he paid an undercover cop to have a business associated murdered.

Second, the story you provide here is implausible. The "way of negotiating" you describe here doesn't make Ulbricht look hard; it makes him look guilty of an extremely serious felony. It would be well beyond incompetent to use "I'm ordering a hit on you" as a cover story.
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In addition to the others mentioned here, do also check out /r/DepthHub/ and its sidebar for other such decent quality subreddits.
it seems to be working now at least for me
These are great! I think I've seen Bee Minder before. Honestly, it has helped me out tremendously to just keep committing. I have days where I commit some really trivial bit of code, just to keep things going, but first thing in the morning I'm thinking about what I plan to commit that day. It keeps me focused on my side projects.
Isn't the most obvious choice for things that require performance but are too complicated to write in C, C++?

Isn't Java the choice for things that aren't performance critical but are too complicated to write in C?

Java survives because thats actually most things.
Maybe s/he was doing the opposite: pushing it now was the most effective way to reveal the corruption, i.e. leaking the secret.
As far as I have understood the draft in the context of my mental model of TLS, there already is a counter available for every message to prevent replay attacks. And if you get one for free then using it is definitely better than using a random number.
Yeah, but I don't care about entrepreneurship or becoming an entrepreneur or about Silicon Valley. I'm a programmer not a businessman.

More than that: I like being a programmer and don't want to be an entrepreneur. Compilers lie to me less regularly than humans do.

See http://tommorris.org/posts/2491
Presumably if Steve really does think that Dan is bluffing, then Dan can show Steve the data he has. Should Steve, knowing that Dan really is in possession of the data he claims, take the chance that Dan has no interest in actually giving the data to the government of Singapore? That is a very high-stakes game.

Lets say that Steve is unwilling to call that bluff, or he is confident that there is no bluff. Is having Dan killed off the table for Steve?
Exactly. DRM should die out as a trend. It's never needed for any valid business reasons. W3C instead of refusing, helps prolonging this sickness.
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That does not prove evolution the way gravity is proven.
Unrelated to the battery issue: how does the rider control the throttle and braking?
Perhaps, but I'm not sure how your feeling about what would have been posted in counterfactual circumstances justifies your complaint about what has been posted in the actual circumstances.

I mean, now it sounds like you aren't complaining about what actually was posted being off-topic, but about something that you imagine might have been off-topic which would have been posted had it occurred.
And you could have, if the AA's were in parallel!
T-Mobile announces unlimited global data roaming at no extra charge
Yeah, well, you know that's just, like, your opinion, man.
GMail is free. Facebook is free. GTA V definitely isn't free. I don't think limited invites really work in this case. Imagine how upset people would be to discover they'd paid their $60 for a game that advertised online play on the box, only to discover a three month waiting period whilst the system scaled up.
I can't help but think that this approach is similar to Microsoft's, and appears to have led to stagnation. It must have some upsides for developers, but I'm not sure is a winning strategy in the long run.
However this thread plays out, will be interesting to see how the HN community responds. Suspect most see this thread as spam/fraud, but interesting to see people taking the OP seriously and giving advice to try and help.
> the impact of this type of attack on the end-user can be almost entirely mitigated by using unique passwords on each site

which unfortunately isn't going to happen.

the bigger point missed by the article is that this reliance on 'correct' usage isn't even necessary if the hashes were created in the right way - properly salted (per-user, not just a static string for the site) and using a tunable computationally intensive hash algorithm like bcrypt or scrypt.
We're talking about Washington Post here.
The Evolution of the Eye (2010) - Richard Dawkins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb9_x1wgm7E

Also an interesting take on it is that, although complex, a lot of organs and systems are actually designed rather poorly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN74qV7SsjY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_poor_design
When scientists today talk about evolutionary processes, that's very different from the way "survival of the fittest" is crammed down the public's throat with animal documentaries and the like.

> Forget chemistry, you will have to butcher your theory with terms like 'fittest', 'parasite', 'species' and so on.

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Like all fields of knowledge, bio sciences adhere to a certain lingo consensus to express ideas. In some cases, an eventual expansion of the original meaning is inevitable, but if anything I'd actually accuse many science papers of doing the opposite (creating new expressions where none were needed). There is no butchering going on in respect to evolution as a process, though of course there are ongoing conversations about the forces and sub-processes going on in nature. But just because our models aren't complete that doesn't mean we don't have a pretty good idea of what's going on in general. Especially in molecular biology, the theoretical advances and the amount of raw knowledge has been nothing short of staggering in recent years.

> Anyway, I do not live in America, I do not even believe in god, I just find this debate ridiculous.

That makes your original comment all the more puzzling, I guess. Your post sure seemed to have a religious background.
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Is it just me, or does that photo look as if the president is added in photoshop?
>People who score high on IQ tests do take IQ tests (or similar puzles on a daily basis).

not necessarily, on an official test, I scored 140 (which I'd consider high), and I don't do any puzzles or similar at all.

that said, obviously an IQ test is not perfect, but, I'd argue a high score is a good indication that a person is relatively intelligent. Middle scores and below can be attributed to a lot of other things (distractions, etc etc), but, the high score is still indicative of your brains capabilities. If that made sense?
>A recurring prejudice in the forums where the cool kids hang out (Hacker News, Reddit, etc.) is against Java, the language.

Maybe I've been reading a different Hacker News, but I haven't seen this sentiment at all one HN, especially with the love for everything JVM (Clojure, Scala) and all the Database/Big Data tools written in Java (Cassandra, Hadoop, HBase)
Yes, that's why kernels are written in java.

If you're writing complex code java is rarely the answer as it requires so much complexity itself.

Hint: Most java projects just appear to be complex because of the poor quality of the language (and developers).

Java is hands down the choice for simple projects written by way too many poor quality developers. The JVM can barely manage 12 GB of memory, Java is a piece of crap when it comes to anything that's actually complex.
I've never before heard of election results being leaked (through any medium) before an election has taken place. It sounds like a new phenomenon to me.
http://getssl.me is quite awesome if you ask me
Head tracking would definitely be one. Although rough position tracking with accelerometer rotation tracking might work just as well. Still these are much lower cost than all the hardware that went into the wiimote head tracker.
Would we be discussing this on HN if it were the results of a boxing match or horse race leaked early, because that wouldn't be about sports?
While we don't know the truth of the story, the salon headline editorializes needlessly. It gives the impression that the shooting was the action immediately following the 911 call, without any mention that something could have happened in between. It's the family's version, but the cops version involves the victim brandishing knives in between.

The story itself mentions both sides, but it's unfortunate that the headline presents only the 'wtf' side of the story.
There could be also bounty for finding backdoor or weakness in Truecrypt.
I'd be concerned about buying a $1,300 battery-powered skateboard without the ability to replace the battery.

I'm not exactly sure how much it costs them to produce the battery, but it looks like single cells of similar LiFePO4 batteries are about $20/ea. With 12 of them, that's $240. Add maybe $50 for the BMS and $10 for the enclosure, and the whole battery pack is maybe $300?

It'd be a shame to have to replace an entire $1,300 skateboard after a few years when your battery capacity is reduced, when all you needed was a $300 battery pack. Hopefully "non-swappable" means something besides "non-replaceable".
This comment is laughable at best. Ignorant might be a better word for it.
I'm going for my undergraduate degree in CS. Java is the language used in the general programming courses, e.g. Intro to Programming (CS 101) and Advanced Programming (CS 210).

I'm taking a C++ class but it was one out of a selection of courses I could take. The java classes are required for everyone going for a CS degree.

I think Java is still the main teaching language at most colleges, at least in the beginning courses. I don't think that's going to change for awhile either.
The workaround is to allow access to the keychain data while the phone is locked? I assume the Loom keychain data (including the users password) is only accessible to the Loom app, just now it's accessible to the app even if the phone is locked. Doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling.

Why not store username and a random token in the keychain instead of the actual password? You create the token on a valid login and keep it on the server and in the keychain. Basically it's a session cookie.
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I don't think the industry is driven by academia. Plus, no CS degree program worth the paper it's printed on even claims to teach Java. If yours did, I'd ask for a refund.

Typically schools USE Java to teach computer science topics, for instance my university used it in the Intro course, where we learned program flow control and some OO principles, and in our Data Structures course where it was nothing more than a tool to complete assignments. We used Scheme to explore other programming paradigms, ASM for our architecture courses, C for our OS course, etc. Other than that we could use any language we wanted for other courses.

Basically if you come out of school claiming you "learned" Java, or any language, it probably means you are lying or went to a bad school.
Terrible outcome.

Why is it NH?
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If you've got two guys with AK-47s standing behind you, do you get a choice in the matter? Even if they aren't standing behind, the implication is that they are there when a despot comes to you for an app.

Maybe the early release was civil disobedience.
I just wish they'd fix the generics - Been writing some c# recently, and the lack of type erasure is a really nice advantage.

The decision to do it that way because of backwards compatibility issues looks really shortsighted now - virtually nobody runs JVMs from before they introduced generics, but we still have this hack in place to maintain compatibility with them. Would have been better to break the compatibility and introduce a little temporary pain, but have a better result 10 years later.
I actually think that EME in HTML -- by narrowing the scope of the DRM part -- encourages what further use of DRM there is to be done in way which minimizes the cost of transitioning too a fully-open format (since it facilitates a model where the only non-standard piece is the DRM handling, as opposed to DRM being the lever to get high-value content into proprietary platforms.)
The "Snowden" of Azerbaijan or just a complete incompetent. Fascinating.
Care to elaborate?

Here's the 12 GB of memory...

http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/operations/tuning

As far as the language is concerned...

What problem of high performance & complexity apps does Java 7 solve that C++11 doesn't?
AngularJS, SCSS, Python or PHP, Memcache, SQL database (MongoDB where needed).
I just started university and it's still all Java. I found out one university in my country (Germany) teaches Scheme in their introductory course, but sadly I had already enrolled at a different one at that time.

The high school CS curriculum here is also basically an introduction to Java.
That's something that only the site programmer can do, and end users have no control or even insight into.

If the article is aimed at developers, I agree with what you are saying (see the last line of my post). But it reads to me like it's aimed more at users. If that's true they should emphasize the best thing that users can do to protect themselves -- which is not using the same password in more than one place.

Or they could have done both, instead of neither.
Adding to this, any structure involving a large number people is generally extremely change resistant. If you're looking for changes that go against the grain of the culture that you're working in then you might as well forget it. You can push back to a certain degree but cultural pressure will reverse any changes you make without a significant, continued investment of energy on your part. For this reason it's better to find a new culture (new job) which aligns better with what you want to do.
Hey! That sounds very interesting, but I'm already buried in a bunch of research projects as it is. Maybe if I get some free time at some point I'll contact you.
Not to pile on, but it's helpful to explicitly spell out the difference between security and spam: In the former, you're preventing access for anyone who's not on a whitelist. In the latter, you're hunting for people (who have access by default) to add to a blacklist.
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