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This has been the predominant form of biogas energy utilization in North America. In fact, according to the data published by the Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP), 75% of the existing 700+ operational and under-construction landfill waste–to-energy projects deal with on-site electricity generation. A clearly outlined interconnection process published by most of the electrical utilities and the maturity of the generation technology are the principal reasons for such a widespread deployment of this application, not to mention favorable tax incentive structures.
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Some people are raising funds to review truecrypt code,meaning they will always be one step behind truecrypt and there are others who are working on truecrypt compatible implementations[1][2][3].

It is my opinion that some of this money will be better off if it went to supporting these independent projects that allows management of truecrypt formatted encrypted volumes without using truecrypt.It is possible to manage truecrypt volumes without using truecrypt binary from truecrypt people.

[1] https://github.com/bwalex/tc-play/

[2] http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/

[3] http://code.google.com/p/zulucrypt/
It's actually "tschüss" or "tschüs".
Thanks for taking the time to comment. I wish the process for updating or releasing fixes was as easy as logging into their instance and deploying the fix. We were never allowed near their servers. No ssh, no in-house install, nothing. The instructions for installing LogicPull were documented and then sent off. We were pretty much in the dark the entire time, and there was no way around it.
There is an aspect that the article doesn't present sufficiently - why do people have their name? Do they perform differently because of the name or is their name a consequence of something that altered their behavior?

For instance, if some immigrant is willing to change his name (as stated in article) he would probably be willing to make other things that would make him blend better into the new society, which could mean he was earning more. In this case name change is just a symptom, not the cause.
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> But Putin only targeted (for prosecution) people who opposed him (or were potential threats).

Which is why I express my cynicism at the timing of Khodorkovsky's pardon. There must be a reason for letting him out now, so I can not help but think that Putin wanted to remind someone (or many someones) what he can do to politically inconvenient opponents.

The beauty, if one can use such a word in this context, is that the reminder comes in a form of letting a person out of the prison. So much more convenient.
Save Hacker News.
Can we please do something to save Hacker News. It's morphing into Reddit and similar clones.
I think only 3 people in the world share my first/last name combination. One of them has been convicted for possesion of child porn.

That's especially funny due to my interest in cryptography, and counter surveillance.

I have considered changing my name, but I am undecided. Advice?
You are a fucking idiot. I guess it the Nazis weren't so bad after all because they all had families and its important to make sure your family is taken care of first and foremost. Assholes like you are why we can't have nice things. History has been made because people were willing to sacrifice for principles, including people with families. Just because you dont have the balls to stand up for what you believe in doesn't mean you should encourage others to be cowards like you.
I have a CyanogenMod-enabled phone and haven't installed Google's apps on it. I got some open-source stuff and that's it. It's a two-year old Galaxy S (first gen) and battery now lasts for 8 days.
Shifting blame on to other offenders doesn't take away from the problems created by the buses. Given an Apple bus picks up at one of my corners, and a Google bus at the other, I often encounter the buses and their employees. Sometimes, the two buses need to be in the same place at the same time, this means either us MUNI riders have to wait for the corporate bus riders to get on and get moving or that the corporate bus blocks traffic while it waits for the MUNI bus to move.

As for the Google Campus, I have taken public transit to it, it's not hard, can take either SamTrans or CalTrain + a walk. That's not to say it's a solution though.

The only real solution to the real problem (increased rent prices causing gentrification) is to increase the housing supply and reduce demand on that supply. Google has some levers it can pull to do that (build dorms, invest in real estate projects, etc.)
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Hacker news is changing. It was bound to happen as it became more popular and global. Increased popularity has resulted in poor quality content submission and discussion.

Most of the time I am seeing content submitted and discussed which does not comply HN submission requirement.
"anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"

Source - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What can be done to save HN from being another Reddit clone?
I've been given root access to a handful of internal servers as an intern at some companies in the past, but never database servers or production, customer-facing servers. That seems rather ridiculous.
Better to use log likelihood because its such a small number.
If you think 'modelling the entire milky way' is an average use case you don't know very much about graphics or game engines, and you should stop extrapolating based on your horribly inadequate knowledge in order to draw faulty conclusions. Again, I have end-users building games and other types of software that are using 64-bit integers right now and have told me they actually need 64 bits of precision. In one case they were actually using pairs of 64-bit integers for 128 bits of precision.

For your contrived galaxy example, one thing you need to realize is that value ranges aren't the only thing that matters; value precision is just important, and variable precision is an absolute trainwreck in game development scenarios because it means that your game's physics are nondeterministic (due to precision variance depending on where you are). This is a real problem that affects real games. EVE Online happens to simulate a massive galaxy and massive solar systems, and it uses integers to represent coordinates precisely for this reason.

So crypto needs '256 bit integers' (why 256? why not 512? 2048? 4096?), thus it's okay that dart only offers 53 bits of integer precision, and somehow 64 bits wouldn't be better? Does your CPU have 256-bit integer registers? Last I checked, most integer registers only go up to 64 or 128 bits, and the registers bigger than that are for SIMD - i.e. they contain multiple integers, not one big one. I'm not even demanding that Dart implement arbitrary-precision integer arithmetic here - just actually get 64 bit integer arithmetic right, since VIRTUALLY EVERY real programming environment's VM offers it natively to begin with [0]. If you still insist that nothing less than arbitrary precision integer values are sufficient for crypto, then fine - what about 64-bit hashing algorithms (real; used in production)? What about applications that need to do I/O against files/buffers larger than 4GB? What about applications that need to do graphics rendering against image surfaces larger than 4GB? What about audio editing software that needs to operate on long audio recordings larger than 4GB? When 32-bit unix timestamps overflow in 2036, will 64-bit integers still be unimportant?

These are all real use cases. If you ignore them all and still argue that 64 bit integers don't matter, you don't seem to have the ability to imagine software beyond your experience.

[0] Yes, there are a few scripting runtimes without 64-bit integer values built-in. They are all insufficient for anything resembling numeric computation.
Yes - I've had a similar reaction but not quite as extreme. Before we were acquired, my domain name was smeatonj (self chosen). After, it was changed to jsmeaton, and it really really frustrated me. Worse, was that I had to use my domain name as my email address instead of my first name.

I know it shouldn't really matter, but it did.
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Keep an eye on it, PR people from RSA will probably be all over that in the next few days.
Probably not. But they can contact a security reseach company so they make a "crowdsourced" audit project, perform it and still leave a backdoor or two uncovered. TrueCrypt gets an official audit and NSA keeps the backdoors - win-win. </sarcasm> And there is less chance that anyone else will perform an audit in near future. :(
1. Work towards becoming full stack developer

2. Open source contribution

Great question!! Thanks for posting.
>Vandalizing private property and hate speech have nothing to do with conscience...

It has nothing to do with Pussy Riot. You're talking out of your a##.

> Just like people who bomb pipelines and spray paint swastikas on synagogues.

the same - it has nothing to do with Pussy Riot.
The very end of article haphazardly try to point that effect out. It's a signal for other important things rather than something that has an effect directly.
> Are the executives at JPMC crooks?

Yes. (Edited for reasons)
This is subjective, and it's rather presumptuous to claim one particular philosophy as the "responsible" one. Microsoft rejected this term for that reason, despite the fact that it would benefit them.
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Important info in this post : "The keynote of the 30C3 will be held in the evening of the 27th of December by the journalist Glenn Greenwald. "
"Amongst modern democracies"? Singapore is not a democracy - it's a one-man/one-party system with racist undertones.
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Volume 2: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_toc.html
Volume 3: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_toc.html
Enough monkeys could take even 800-pound gorilla. In fact, it is considered a common knowledge that some bipedal monkeys regularly took 16000-pound mammoths, ate them and made dwellings out of their bones. So if I were a gorilla I wouldn't underestimate 30kg monkeys. Especially if they have advanced weaponry.
Thanks for the effort! I was a regular reader of BYTE magazine (and Nibble!) but never knew Creative Computing.

There was also a TV series with a similar theme (war dialling) at that time. I can't recall its name...
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Now that this is done it'd be lovely to read a project postmortem. Great work, everyone.
> So much time spent doing bureaucratic things, organizing, raising money. Have meetings, setup a board.

Well, if you're raising money and don't want to end up in jail for not doing it the right way, you have to spend a bit of time and money doing it the right way.
Really? They committed a crime using the same type of justification as eco-terrorists and racists use. The only difference is the social 'acceptability' of each 'belief'. ie. it's ok to insult Christians but not Jews...
There's very little you can do to reverse the tide. As the site grows in popularity, the initial focus gets diluted.

It's funny that you mention HN becoming a Reddit clone. When Reddit first began, the articles there were actually very much like HN, since the early adopters were techies. And as Reddit became more mainstream, HN was created for just the techie subgroup (this was before subreddits were possible).

And now the cycle is happening again, where HN is becoming more mainstream. For me, the solution is to discover other communities that have the tighter focus I'm looking for. Personally, I'm interested in SaaS. So the forums at discuss.bootstrapped.fm have been very useful to me.

So my suggestion is to find other communities that are important to you, and spend some time there as well. In the similar fashion that many migrated from Reddit to HN.
>His trial was a farce

As if there is any other kind of trial in Russia. Quick introduction on Russia trials : http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Tribunal_%28episode%29

>Germany is also trying to get Timochenko out of Ukraine

yep, one more "prisoner of conscience" of Khodorkovsky type

>so your question should probably be rephrased from "why him" to "why not also Snowden".

as i already said, there is nothing in common between Khodorkovsky and people like Snowden. Snowden challenged the State, the Order of Things on the right/wrong principles, whereis Khodorkovsky being at the time among largest beneficiaries of the Order of Things challenged a specific person for personal [beneficial] position in that Order of Things.
I bank with BoA and just before the breech was announced, I received an email saying that my card may have been involved in an unspecified data leak, and that a new card was in the mail. So, at least BoA is being proactive.
As long as we manage to keep the Doge (and other) memes off HN, we're still far better.

edit: Maybe we should kill off all those Bitcoin/Dogecoin/xcoin submissions, at least those in the line of "value of xcoin up/down y%". The xcoin flood really goes on my nerves.
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Well, since you're so interested in upholding the guidelines:

If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)
You may well be interested in the build cache[1], which allows you to store build artifacts between pushes - I think it was designed for asset compilation, but there's no reason it shouldn't also work for compiled code.

[1] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpack-api#caching
Most social sites require a unique name, for no reason other than a technical convenience. Maybe this practice of making all names rare can have a negative effect on people.
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Seriously? Do you have experience of this?

Can't speak for the poster - but this is something I've seen a lot in the enterprise. I think it's a more common reaction with larger organisations because, due to their size, they tend to silo and specialise work more. So you see this pattern:

* You find $solution to make X better

* You try and sell $solution for X into $company - who refer you to the X department that does nothing else but focus on X

* Since $solution is very disruptive for department X - it tends to get rejected.

This might not just be because department X is thinking "I'll be needed less" - but it's very often a component of it.

In these situations it's often better to approach the head of department X, or the person in charge of the head of department X. They often can see the value more easily since they're more invested in results that the way things are done currently.
The concept seems to be that once you've adapted to Emacs, doing things outside of it becomes a pain point. So you start bringing everything into Emacs.

I'll refrain from making the obvious Star Trek reference, and instead use this meta-reference.
It did make word temporarily safer from Iran nuclear bomb though. Of course, it is only temporary, but almost everything you do is.

As for the article, it claims that Stuxnet "opened the Pandora box", but it did nothing of the sort. Stuxnet by itself did not enable anything that wasn't possible before - it was possible for malicious actors to create attacks on US networked infrastructure, and it still is. Stuxnet changed nothing there. Criminals and security professionals know the possibilities for a long time. And are using them. Making it sound as if the evil US has again spoiled the paradise for everyone makes no sense, and the author, being the expert in the field, should have known better, but looks like his political views overcame his professional judgement here.
That's a good point actually. Maybe we need more ethical loners without emotional attachments in a positions of power.
I really don't like these Resume studies where they send out a bunch of resumes with different names.

A resume can be an extremely noisy signal, and the best statistical signal might be the ethnicity implicit in the name. When you actually meet the person, you get a lot more information, and the employer might rely less on the person's race as a source of information/bias.
Uh, no...

There are large effects on behavior of psychopathy, people that are affected by a psychopath will mostly -- at a minimum -- make a point of warning everyone else they know. That is very detrimental for the psychopath. (Note that how we communicate really applies evolutionary pressure. Just check the number of muscles in a human face compared to most anything else. This is not a small effect.)

Also, psychopathy seems to be partly environmental and partly from genetics. And exist in most populations.

All this suggests an evolved behavioral strategy.

Researchers need to check for your hypothesis (the large different effects almost cancels each others out in many types of historic societies(!), so it is just a random genetic drift) since afaik it is a standard hypothesis, but it does seem very unlikely.
I'll second that recommendation of SPIN Selling.

SPIN has an explicit focus on understanding the customer and their problems before selling solutions that's well aligned with the customer development / lean startup stuff that folk here will be more familiar with.
Also, not making the distinction between http/https allows retrieving most passwords if you can man-in-the-middle
I've had that experience: the logins that get automatically assigned at the Big Enterprise Company where I work, are sometimes nonsensical. I've seen some coworkers with just surname@example.com, but many more with an arbitrary combination of their given name and surname. The hash they made of my legal name was to my eyes ugly, and it didn't help that it's difficult to speak. I also have a lot of coworkers whose backgrounds are in Asia or the Indian subcontinent, and I can't imagine they're happier about their names getting mangled.
Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement which allowed Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia at the end of September 1938.

World War 2 started when Germany decided to invade Poland in late 1939. Germany was never given Poland.

You get even the most basic history wrong and then proceed to say that Bush and Obama are historically equivalent to Stalin and Hitler?

Never let facts get in the way of a good dogma.
Read this '72 Playboy interview:

http://www.cesc.net/adobeweb/scholars/fuller/buckminsterfull...

His foresight is amazing. Just a snippet:

"Very soon we’ll have little devices on our wrists and we’ll be able to say “I like it” or “I don’t like it” as we go along"
Interesting article, especially since I always assumed that having an uncommon name is beneficial. I'm "morgante" virtually everywhere and people tend to remember my name pretty easily. There has to be some benefit to that.

On the other hand, it definitely seems like we could be looking at an instance of correlation. My educated, left-wing parents chose a fairly unusual name and that also reflects how they raise me. So it's hard to disassociate any of my name from my upbringing in deciding any impact on life outcomes. Probably the best studies in this are the ones comparing siblings, but even those are susceptible to third variables (perhaps second children are more likely to get a common name, and are certainly raised differently).
Perhaps it's just me, but I get real giddy when I see the formulas rendered by LaTex. Very beautiful!
Show HN: Email obfuscator
Ever since the Rap Genius gaffe(http://news.rapgenius.com/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secret-l...), I view Heroku with a totally different angle.

I don't recall there is anything concrete offered to affected customers, except a generic apology, and this keeps me from doing business with Heroku. Right now I am building a web stack from scratch on a US-based hosting vendor. It is frustrating and we kind of are reinventing the wheel, but the reassurance that all things are transparent and within our control is priceless. Your opinion could be different.
Popular Redditor CarlH accused of raping and torturing his 9-Year old son
1Password's browser extension v4, in contrast, fills in the form only when you press a key combination (⌘-\ on OSX), and has you enter your master password into a dropdown from the OSX Menu Bar, and not inside the browser frame. Pretty snazzy all around.
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Do you trust Google?
Of course it does, but PC operating systems were not initially created on that assumption, making an abrupt conversion to such a system impractical.

Smartphones don't have decades of legacy software and workflows to deal with.
Yet twitter ids are bigger than 53 bits (they return string ids now).
He ran a popular subreddit teaching people to program http://www.reddit.com/r/CarlHProgramming and a youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbNxlZZVmfP8n84ag-rGpMg/vid...
Looking as close as I can at those printouts, my only reaction is, "that's CODE?!" Good lord.
More details here:
http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-security/2013-Decem...
Isn't AWS Glacier built for this type of use?
Most gyms will also happily give you a discount (often substantial) if you pay cash (or check) in advance. Typically a year, you might be able to talk them into 6 months.

I frankly prefer not having to either deal with the automatic deduction or remembering to cut a check every month.
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An unlocked bootloader is better than a rooted device. If you have root but not an unlocked bootloader, you are unable to get full custom ROMs (meaning kernel and such, not just userspace), full control of your device, etc...

But with an unlocked bootloader, you just flash your way to root. Or to a full custom ROM. Or to whatever the hell you want.
An interesting bit on the computational complexity of solving this problem (with a slightly different scoring function):

http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/1854/is-finding-...
Yes, but Google also turns a blind eye to that, and by and large CM and other custom ROMs stay compatible anyway. Google could, however, start cracking down if custom ROMs started causing problems.
The CTS tests is the suite that ensures that all versions of Android at the same API level behave the same as far as a developer is concerned. It verifies that the public APIs do what they are documented to do.
We agree on what has been said, but
the point I was making was so obvious
I didn't say it! Point: Servers are
so cheap that don't really need VC
equity funding to buy a good one. So,
if the 'idea' is good in the sense that
it can get the coveted 'traction', then
the 'funding' the entrepreneur needs is
essentially just the food, shelter, etc.
to write the software plus $2000- for
hardware, then go live. The if the
idea is good, can get $300,000+ a month
from a $2000- server. So, tough to
see just there the VCs have a role.
The OP made a similar point.

Then, the next obvious, so far unstated,
point is, to play in the game, the VCs
will have to do something much like the
entrepreneur does -- evaluate the 'idea'
long before 'traction', i.e., VCs will
have to actually read the 'business plans',
think about what they are reading, and
be able to do an accurate evaluation
instead of just waiting for traction,
significant and growing rapidly and
for some strange event that then has
the entrepreneur wanting to take equity
funding, go from 100% ownership to
0% ownership with his 50% +- on a
four year vesting schedule and report
to a Board that can fire him before
much of the vesting has been done
and take the company.
A testimonial from a HN'er who did a name change for various reasons revolving around removing friction: http://www.flownet.com/ron/eg-rg-faq.html