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RSA in what mode?

AES in what mode? IGE? Why are you using an authenticated cipher mode from the 1970s that predates every modern AEAD construction?

DH with what group? How do you authenticate the exchange? How does forward secrecy work?

Saying "we didn't roll our own: we use RSA, AES, and DH" is extremely worrying; it suggests that you're not aware of where the complexity in a cryptosystem lives. Anybody on HN can write the trivial code to ask the JCE for an RSA or an AES. You have to do better.
Nope, from 17 U.S.C. §203:

"(a) Conditions for Termination. — In	the	case	of	any	work other	than	a	work made for hire, the exclusive or nonexclusive grant of a transfer or license of copyright or of any right under a copyright[...] is subject to termination under the following conditions [...]"

- http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap2.html#203
Hmm. I took a look at the code and was disappointed to see it's using the Coinbase API. Hardly decentralised.

Unfortunately it's hard to replace with direct usage of the P2P network because it relies on sending money to an email address: i.e. a trusted third party has to hold the money until the recipient picks it up. What if they never pick it up? What if they don't actually want bitcoins?

It seems to me like a decentralised solution would be easy to code up, if only we add an additional requirement: someone who wants a payout should put a Bitcoin address into the pull request or commit description. Then BitHub would be able to make payouts directly from its own wallet with no Coinbase dependency, and a committer has to opt-in to receiving the funds.

I might take a look at coding this up soon. BitHub is Java so using bitcoinj and XChange would be very easy.
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The biggest problem with that is a huge portion of the WP audience is using whatever cheap shared hosting they can find, which is great for WP, because PHP and MySQL are ubiquitous when it comes to shared hosts, but Node (which is what Ghost uses) isn't.

Using Node, while something the developers probably liked, might not have been the best decision because it severely hinders adoption by the casual users that WP currently owns.
What you describe is also similar to a bitmapped graphics technique called dirty rectangles.
Biocide resistance is also a problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiseptic#Evolved_resistance

I'm not sure if there's a relation of resistance between biocides and antibiotics
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> I jump around in documents by searching through them

You might want to try vim-sneak.

https://github.com/justinmk/vim-sneak
Just curious, how many indexes were on the structure you were inserting? Also, i am assuming 90ms per structure, if that is correct, then that is equal to 11 inserts per second which is unfortunately very slow..
Get off the internet. Seriously.
Yes, completely agree, we need more of this as it helps people better see the impact their donations have in areas donors will likely never visit. I like how Charity:Water is also doing this by giving you photos and GPS coordinates to the pump you help fund. If there's a such thing as a disruptive charity, it's organizations like these.
yeah, except he didn't pull a gun on someone, he pointed out that the example was overly flattering for the author. (which it was)
Does any have experiences with Primus they can share?

The idea of being able to insulate the rest of the code from the specifics of which lower-level library I'm using is very attractive. On the other hand, any abstraction layer can introduce bugs in its own right. Thoughts about the tradeoff?
I make my own soaps at home with only organic oils and lye, and I'll be happy to sell you some! :)

Off the shelf at a regular store though, it's hard to find soaps (and toothpastes) without these ingredients. Just one more reason to DIY, especially with things that are going in/on your body.
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Let me be clear, the fact that this particular complaint emphasizes what happened to other "e-book sale posts" reinforces my suspicion that the underlying reason for the complaint is that HN squashed a social media effort to promote a particular e-book.

My reason for making this clarification is that I don't think the HN ranking algorithm is in particular need of improvement, so we are unlikely to reach agreement.

However, for completeness, the reason I do not think it is broken is exactly because it squashed the sort of post about which those with an interest cry "unfair" and reference other "e-book sale posts" as a point of comparison.

I will add, that if I were trying to design a system intended to foil the use of HN for social media promotion, I would consider a honey-pot strategy which would allow a comparison of two streams of submissions.
You have a natural gut flora; you have a natural skin flora. Screwing around with your gut flora is uncontroversially seen as a bad thing. Screwing around with your skin flora strikes me as a similar argument.

I would be interested to know of any summary of dermatology studies on anti-bacterial soaps. I would theorize that much as screwing around with your gut flora leads to all manner of uncomfortable stinkiness, so should screwing around with your skin flora. So people who use overly aggressive decontamination solutions on their bodies should be stinkier and have more and weirder rashes than people using normal stuff.
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Can someone explain how big data makes something less legal? I really am not aware of a legal precedent on this.
It would be even better if the two parties would be different.
This article was actually written by someone from Alternet, which is why it obsessively mentions Ayn Rand in every paragraph and contains so much over the top invective.

I'm not sure it's a good idea for a more reputable media brand like Salon to host articles like this, but it seems to be a trend -- Forbes for instance allows "guest bloggers" to post content that can sometimes be as unhinged as this piece.
I think he got that. What he's saying is that this description of a programmer is not that rare.
Not the case as I was in my home office which is... well.. silent :)
Are Google executives paid well? Last time I heard about it, they received $1/year salary, and tons of company stock. That ties their income directly with company performance (through stock price).
The seneca toolkit that the post leads into and links to is super interesting. It seems like a pretty straightforward way to build with an SOA from the beginning. Does anyone have any experience using this for a sizable project that can comment on it?
A long time ago I was travelling in a country where they require smut filters in internet cafes. I was a chemistry grad student, and wanted to read some journals. There was a problem because one subfield of chemistry is ANALytical Chemistry.

Bayes classification was well established by then. The conclusion is that such filters don't have to work, they have to appear to work. That, and concerns about the Great Firewall.
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i agree anyone bright enough to tie ones own shoes wouldnt head to murica for an "education", japan, china, russia, germany, sweeden, australia, new zealand, all have far better higher education systems.
Killing innocents from the air indiscriminately is pretty much terrorism by any definition of the word. The problem with this approach is that it turns moderates into people who hate you. If the someone bombed my family, I would hate them. It's pretty much human nature.
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The 2nd link is to a small study, with n=~10 for each of the sample groups. Small enough that it's hard to take it to say anything too firm on the subject.

The 1st one is a meta analysis of similarly small studies. When you've got a meta-analysis of small studies showing an overall small effect size, there's a good chance that the only thing the meta-analysis actually measures is the file drawer effect.
You're missing the forest for the trees, but if it will make you happy, "congress shall make no law...abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble".

Illegal immigrants and visitors have the right to assembly because no laws may be enacted against people assembling, not just citizens assembling.

And perhaps more significantly, let's look at the 14th amendment (which I really should have started with in the first place):

>All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Here there is a clear distinction between citizen and person
You are right that they have no choice but wrong that it's exclusively amazon's fault. It's also the fault of every other company that won't hire them. If amazon automated it's entire workforce tomorrow and fired everyone, those people would be even worse off, yet no one would be protesting amazon over it.
Why exactly is there "Ayn Rand" in the title?

If you still are not shocked, let's color the phrase a bit more : "Is it really necessary for liberals to bash values they don't agree with, while hiding their own shortcomings ?"

There, you are shocked - but you can find additional food for though on
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/12/media_bias_case....
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2013/12/denver_posts_me....

Besides this "Colorado school shooter was an hardcore leftist and keynesian" (shocking headline selected for additional emotional impact) this is not what I often see in the news
http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/14/dead-colorado-school-shoot...

But I guess if the guy had believe in objectivism and had been right wing, this would have justified headlines and a totally different wording - like this article on Salon.

Ask yourself- why is it ok to do ad-hominem attack on one case, and not in the other? Why are you shocked when the headlines mention the political beliefs that you find totally normal, but you are not when the headlines mention Ayn Rand?

Besides the shocking title, the content is awful. This article has nothing to do on HN.

If downvoting this is easy, but explaining your disagreement is harder, my suggestion: bias at work.
> However, my question was along the lines of political theory, not constitutional law.

There is an important practical reason for drawing the distinctions and putting things into correct legal perspective: if you believe that the government has slowly chipped away at legal rights that used to exist, then it's harder to justify believing that political action can change the status quo. On the other hand, if you recognize that what you really have is a disconnect between peoples' behaviors as enabled by new communications technologies, and the government's acting pursuant to established law, then it's much more justifiable to believe that political action can change the status quo.

As for whether the government should collect less or people should be more wary of broadcasting their private information, my answer is: both. I think laws are necessary to create protections for electronic communications that didn't exist before (and I think those laws could work because I don't believe the government is just ignoring the law). At the same time, I find it a little bit disingenuous for people to complain about being tracked when they carry little tracking devices around with them.

Ultimately, what you'll see is a shift in equilibrium of privacy. I don't think you can structure the law to hamstring the government so much that it doesn't know anything more about you than it did in 1975. Not in an era when people broadcast their bowel movements in real time to their thousand closest Facebook friends so that companies can spam them with advertisements for the best laxatives. Socially, we're in a post-privacy era in that regard. Though I do think you'll see the equilibrium fall at a point short of "the government collects everything, all the time."
To be fair, Sears was setting off alarm-bells for being mismanaged and myopic before he took charge.

But he obviously didn't help.
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This is funding for the business side of Watsi, so that donations made for treatments can go 100% to the treatments.
https://github.com/jcromartie/gsd.sh

I added a pull request to add in linux support, so this should work on both osx and linux platforms now.
Often in the crypto world, these are exactly the good intentions with which the road to hell(pwnage?) is paved.

Knowing this, I hope you can appreciate why the burden of proof on your unproven team and approach is fairly high.
Likewise. Started with 'jj', but 'jk' is significantly faster. Only downside is that you can't actually type 'jk'. Now everybody thinks I'm serious all the time.
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No warrant is required to follow someone in public.

Why do you think call record and geolocation data are 'publicly available' data? How are they accessible to the public at large? If they were accessible to the public at large, the government wouldn't need to ask teleco's for the info, or for permission to install the government's own tracking devices -- if someone in the public at large asks a teleco for this info, they aren't going to get it, it clearly isn't public information.
You can still have an interesting business logic system that is CRUD at its core. A case management system, as an example, is CRUD at its basis but filled with business logic.
>"Shouldn't the calls be encrypted?"

Calls Skype to Skype are encripted, but as far as I know you lose that when you make calls to landlines or mobiles.
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With enterprise, you end up supporting IE8 :(
Honestly, do you understand the technical aspects discussed here? Can you contribute on that level to the discussion?
More info on this "innovative" company:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures#Controversy
The difference is slaves were forced to work and the slave master literally did make the slaves' lives worse off.
By "methods that don't depend on a state" I mean that you don't need an object. The point of objects is that they manage their own state, and you only need to worry about sending them messages.

I agree that they are just functions, but no one is trying to "hack" or to break encapsulation. They could have used packages instead, yes... But having them inside classes is pretty convenient as this allows us to have a better syntax.

Oh and not being able to pass classes around is a language-specific thing, so you can't really use that as an argument against static methods.
Whats your diet? I'm not trying to ignite the traditional HN flamewar about the evils of a science based paleo diet, but I have had a similar experience where not eating grains or sugar none the less results in a relatively tartar free mouth per my dentist. Even though I hate waiting and am impatient and do not visit every 3 months or whatever often its supposed to be.

Archeologically, before people started eating grains and processed "psuedo-food" we mostly died with good teeth and its a stereotypical observation that you can tell when grain agriculture sets in with a people when their teeth start rotting out at a young age.
My hypothesis: The minimum atmosphere likely makes it hard for anything to fly close to the surface. Most of our drones/flying machines (winged or rotored) depend on there being relatively thick air to "push" off of.
And if you can find a way to measure joint stress and wear through the day, we can optimize the workers to pick the heaviest parcels each can lift such that it only damages them a bit but not more over the course of a week than nights and weekends of rest can cope for, that would be great too, thanks.

And dim the warehouse lights, they can have individual torches. No sense lighting parts of the room people aren't looking at. Oh hang on, batteries - better make them hand cranked torches, then the power comes from their lunch, ha ha!

The issue isn't with instant-feedback, it's with degradation and treating humans like industrial farm animals. The question isn't "is this effective", but "is this ok?" and "can anyone come up with something less dystopian but still workable? - please?".
You are right. I was not up to date on that.
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You forget that in Germany, unemployment insurance requires you to not bypass any offers (and you're required to seek work as well).

By "choosing" not to be employed by Amazon, if that's offered to the worker and happens to be their only choice, they "choose" to lose unemployment benefits.

Sounds like a faustian bargain.
Just to clarify, I live in the middle of San Diego.
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Please, humans destroying themselves through war is nothing compared to a large rock from space hitting the planet at 20,000 miles per hour. The amount of energy in the entire world's nuclear stockpile would be dwarfed by the energy of that happening. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if the 2004 tsunami in the South Pacific contained more energy than the sum of all of earth's weapons.

The point is if you're going to talk about the threat of extinction, at least provide a plausible case for the argument. The negativity of "humans are going to extinct themselves" isn't inspiring. If we're going to kill ourselves, why even bother? If you want to make a case for us getting off this death trap of a rock, one of "we should work together to fight things out of our control" is much more inspiring than "I want to get off the planet before all you other idiots kill yourselves."
The main discussion appears to be under another thread reporting this story from The Guardian.[1] For readers who like to read the full opinion, that is available on the website of a legal blogger,[2] who obtained a copy of the opinion before the district court website became overwhelmed with traffic.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6917194

[2] http://www.lawfareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Klayma...
Umm, that's standard anti-fraud for e-commerce sites. I'm pretty confused actually at your surprise, I've never paid for anything by credit card without requiring at least a zip code, and usually a full address.
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I wish the article would go more into keypress events in general and properly organizing code to make attaching shortcuts to it simple, rather than building yet another antipattern into the Jenga tower of bad jQuery code.

The real root of the problem here is systematically tying UI actions to events on specific elements in the DOM. Instead of working around it, why not write slightly cleaner code in the first place?

It's also not strictly necessary to use a third-party library for this unless you're butting heads with one of the edge cases the library is designed to solve.
Wall street traders were confronted with the proof that their speculation on produce futures was causing famine and actual, real deaths. They were aware, they just didn't care.

People acting unethically for profit is pretty much the American way, isn't it? It seems to me that if there's a buck in it and it's not illegal (or you can get away with it) it's pretty much justified in the US.
What if it's Amazon's position of power that forces people out of work and into the cold embrace of Amazon in the first place?

When I first moved to London 10 years ago I watched as Starbucks moved aggressively into the area of London in which I was working. They decimated smaller outlets and put people out of work. I literally saw people who had previously worked at other establishments working at Starbucks - almost certainly for for less pay.

As a thought experiment, imagine that it's taken to it's full conclusion. Amazon is all that is left, all other shops and distributors are shut down. Now you have a large mass of incredibly unhappy people who have been forced into the position of working for minimum wage by power structures outside of their control. People with barely the means to survive. They don't enjoy any of the luxuries many of us have today. There's no way out for them, and there's probably no way out for their children. What happens when something triggers that group of individuals to revolt? It wouldn't be the first time that's happened in England [0].

Don't get me wrong, I think Amazon are an incredible operation. Possibly the finest logistics organisation that's ever existed - physically and increasingly virtually too.

The question is, what is the cost to society, especially in lower socio-economic areas? I think we need to look very critically on anything that clearly widens the wealth divide. Even more so when unethical means are used to shift money from broader society to those organisations in the first place [1].

In a world without Amazon maybe many of these "people who tend to be rejected everywhere else" would have gainful employment and the rest of us would just have to pay and extra few quid for the tat that we don't even need in the first place.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt
[1] http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/may/15/amazon-uk-tax-3m
That was uncalled for.
I wonder as more and more jobs are replaced where the people are going to come from who can afford the shiny things in the Amazon warehouse?
Just don't include a date/timeframe and claim it hasn't happened yet
I just don't get it.

Based on parent comments, you're ok with the government knowing WHO/WHEN you call someone. But you have a beef with the government knowing WHERE you called from?

And your basis for that is that they've always been able to collect WHO/WHEN, but WHERE is different because it's new?
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It's still voluntary. I may have no choice but to eat food, but it isn't farmers that are forcing me to buy it.
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