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>Why would any one want to opt in to that? //

Come on, seriously are you saying you can't imagine why?

If you don't block proxies then you may as well not block anything. Regardless of whether you think not blocking anything is the better way - surely you can see why people would want to block porn on their internet connections?
-1 for Yahoo disabling pinchzoom on mobile devices. Why do they do this?
Of course, that leaves little room for merit pay within grades.
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I'm worried that to people unfamiliar with modern crypto, the diagram of your protocol and the "technical FAQ" might sound credible or even convincing. But it is not.

The message integrity protection this system describes is not up to modern standards. The system seems to use SHA1, which is a fault for a new system (no new system should use SHA1), but that's not the biggest problem; the biggest problem is that the SHA1 digest of a message is not an authenticator of that message, because an attacker can generate the same digest given only the contents of the message. Your FAQ makes a claim that is simply false when it says that the SHA1 of a message is a MAC. It simply is not. Moreover, the process of using a secure hash to generate a MAC isn't simple. HMAC-SHA1 and SHA1 are not comparable functions; HMAC-SHA1 goes through a series of elaborate steps to remediate vulnerabilities that come from trying to use SHA1 directly.

AES-IGE is an anachronism. Candidly: most of the Internet crypto practitioners who looked at this system learned about IGE for the first time because you decided to use it. IGE is a block cipher mode that was designed in 1977 and forgotten about in 1978. It's so archaic that academic cryptographers joke about how many times it has been reinvented and then rebroken. The last time your cryptosystem was discussed on HN, I provided a link to a thread in which Jutla laid out a simple, devastating attack on the mode in ASCII text in a mailing list post. You didn't respond.

Your use of RSA seems naive and ineffective. Your system "resists" MITM attacks by "allowing" clients to trust servers you operate. No other modern secure messaging protocol has this characteristic. Every OTR user in the world runs software that was designed not to trust central servers. Not only that, but the technical attributes of your RSA usage appear incompetent. RSA padding is not optional; Nate Lawson has argued for years that RSA "padding" should be renamed "armoring" for exactly this reason: because developers like those on your team assume that it is a minor detail. It is not. 80% of the RSA implementations on the Internet are insecure because they use the default padding (PCKS1v1.5) which was carefully designed (in the 90s) to resist attacks, but missed some. You use ad-hoc padding.

I don't understand why any professional in the world would spend any time on your contest. Moxie Marlinspike's response to that contest was devastating: he laid out a comically broken messaging protocol, one no professional would ever knowingly use, and showed that your contest rules would make that broken system survivable. Your contest appears to be a cynical attempt to prey on the misconceptions of uninformed users.

You have deliberately chosen the NSA as your adversary in your promotional content. You have deliberately chosen to give yourself no margin of error in designing this system. You've deliberately chosen a problem domain that requires profound trust in your team. You are not living up to the constraints you've set for yourself. I fear that the damage you've done to your project may be unrecoverable.
I'll add http://www.regexper.com/ to the various sites everyone posted, I find that this one output the nicer graph.
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Not of nature, but of economics. For instance, you can absolutely have both if you are wealthy enough to afford private school or the rent / price premiums in neighborhoods with both good schools and trendy bars.
Your anchors at the end make it match nothing.
The article is looking at the cohort data assuming that the leading edge of the Millennial cohort (at least, according to this way of divvying up the generations; I've heard of others) who are currently at the oldest in the early 30s will act like the people who are in the mid-30s: looking to settle down, raise families, find some place cheaper to live, etc.

Is that assumption actually true? What do you guys think?
"You're personalty can't handle a psychopath mine can.”

You actually come off like someone who claims that they had grown up around airplane pilots and therefore can handle gravity. It’s actually unlikely you can.

"I would notice if he did.”

I’m just going to call that posturing.
If you're pushing a real-estate tool, why on earth would you go to Silicon Valley looking for customers (as opposed to investors)? It's got one of the most dysfunctional, abnormal housing markets in the US, so any success you have in working with realtors there is unlikely to translate to broader market success. I'd have thought you'd have learned more by rolling up at realty industry conferences, working with professional bodies, etc...
I suspect there are some confounding factors here. Most people I know would rather rent for $1000/month and have a good job in the city than rent for $300/month in a small town where nobody's hiring.
Your going to have to pay a lot of money to someone to take on btc volatility.
> they are freeing many convicted prisoners

Many people that should never have been locked up in the first place.

> will not demand Ukraine to take any particular internal actions in return for financial help

Except cut off their gas supply if they do not go with Russia.

> While corruption in the USA grows unchallenged, the Russian Federation is in the second decade of a campaign to root it out both high and low.

Somehow, mysteriously, rooting out corruption is mostly successful against opponents of Putin.
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Presumably they still block the sites like ThePirateBay for which court orders have been made?

I asked this last time A&A were mentioned, still haven't found an answer, just curious?
Would love to read a good interview with the guy, in the spirit of "Coders at work", say, which was really good at this sort of thing. There are some nice bits in this article, but in the end it's a bit like reading a CV.
I don't think you necessarily should be switching. . .depending on the company, you may be able to refresh and update by simply transferring to a different team or project. But yes, the reality is that, for most of us, that's what we need to do.
What a sad story. Which part of Europe was he from?
I am not surprised that his father did not reply, but I'm sure that he appreciated your letter.
I was under the impression that the operating system generated the comments. Terry reads between the lines as well.
I am curious: may I ask, are you speaking from experience?
We've become so comfortable that we obsess over the title of a web page on some random startups website.

Absolutely incredible.
That might be true of a Direct Democracy. But an Indirect Democracy insulates politicians from the will of the voters. Votes do little more than bludgeon politicians out of office as a last resort. As long as politicians don't upset voters too much, the two incumbent parties retain power and continue doing as they please (which isn't all that different from each other, since the optimal behavioral strategy is to hug the center of the spectrum). So to some extant, I blame the structure of the government.

But given this situation, I also blame the voters. Polarization is pretty high. Voters readily pledge loyalty to the party line rather than individually consider the pros and cons of each platform's ideas. Voters don't realize that the less precommitted they are to their party, the more pressure they exert over congress. I.e. the less confident politicians are that the same demographics will reelect them, the more likely politicians will actually pay attention to the voters. pg has noticed this, among others.

Unfortunately, zealotry is a tough nut to crack. It's hardwired into human psychology. One can find it in politics, religion, sports, warfare, the dynamics of any group in general. And consciously or not, the parties encourage it (since each party's optimal signalling strategy is to differentiate themselves as much as possible). The media encourages this too, definitely consciously since it feeds their bottom line.

Given Indirect Democracy is here to stay, I think the worst problem is the lobby system. Not only has the power of the voters been diluted, but it's taken a backseat to that of the lobbyists. I'm not saying corporations are conspiratorially colluding to directly control congress, but each corporation's individual bribes certainly incentivizes the government's behavior, and arguably more so than the people's votes.
> Guess its not fun to find out how bad it is to express a point of view. Go look at all the hoops abortion protestors have to jump through. They wouldn't even dare cross the threshold of the business because by law most can't even come within shouting distance of their targets.

Abortion protestors don't merely express a point of view, they deliberately attempt to prevent people from accessing health services at places where an abortion may be provided. A protestor that disrupts a business or barricades themselves to a door can reasonably be expected to be detained or arrested, but not charged with terrorism or charged with major felonies.
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Surely the only way to make Tor [or similar] illegal is to make encrypted connections illegal?
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This is unfortunately an anti-thesis to the OPs opinion. I am guessing this was not your intention.

He talks of a "career" page. As in the title. The only time this matters is if you are already on their website.

If this was an obscure start-up, the reason you'd land on that page would be because something about them made you go to their website.

Now ask yourself this, when you visit a website would you prefer them calling the page with their job listings a gigs page, jobs page, job listing page or careers page?

Which one would you look for?
When you have a lot of sheep around, evolution is bound to come up with a sheep that feeds on other sheep. For such mutants, having 'social camouflage' is a critical trait, because otherwise they would be losing to normal sheep due to their tit-for-tatting.

As for the advantage, it seems pretty clear to me: higher chances at being the alpha-male(female?), plus the resource advantage due to not having the ability for reciprocal altruism (and the ability to get away with that).

All few human psychopaths I have personally met were natural-born leaders. One is now occupying a high-level position within a successful company that produces manupulative F2P games. Another was a woman who, despite her being deaf-mute, was able to organize a successful remote web studio (before it fell apart due to her politicking and other members, including me, bailing out).

Also, quoting Wikipedia: "In Mongolia alone as many as 200,000 of the country's 2 million people could be [Genghis] Khan descendants".

Edit: if I remember correctly, Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene discussed cheaters (that is, individuals who didn't reciprocate) as being a viable evolutionary strategy, as long as they are in a minority.
They spied on UNICEF? Really? Why?
Agreed. Its simply not easy enough to use so I could recommend it to my friends with lesser it knowledge. However I have hopes for projects like MailPile (https://www.mailpile.is/)
There is a confluence of factors, I think: rigid zoning laws that prevent mixed-use neighbourhoods, the car-orientedness of recent construction (think cul-de-sac-neighbourhoods with one single outlet to a major highway), and of course the fact that once you have kids you are not supposed to have a social life any longer.

American town planning has been a disaster since time immemorial.
You could replace "shitty" with "thoughtless", "callous", "cruel" for example. It's quicker, and more satisfying, to simply use the shorthand "shitty".

Also, what argument? Does the fact that the lady in question did not have anything to defend against, nothing to be ashamed of, really hinge on the exact definition of the shittyness of reddit trolls? Heh. So it's simply a statement. And if you disagree that such behaviour is shitty, make your case. If you don't, I really wonder what we're even talking about here.
The entire West is complicit.

http://cphpost.dk/news/denmark-is-one-of-the-nsas-9-eyes.761...
So many people seem enamored of the idea of building software to protect users from NSA, and respond by designing new cryptosystems. These efforts invariably fail, because crypto is very hard, and professional crypto requires 10x verification (particularly at the design stage) as it does implementation.

It baffles me that nobody has instead picked up the challenge of taking the PGP/GPG cryptosystem and making it more usable. That seems like an incredibly valuable project that also makes great use of the skills of the sorts of people that tend to want to work on privacy software.

Paradoxically, the more you know about crypto, the less inclined you usually are to build new crypto.
If it hasn't become clear yet, they spy on everyone.
I think we've read this story before. It turns out it is a tragedy.
No one seemed to care when the French did it.
While people are recommending online regex tools.. http://regex101.com/
No, I'm laughing at all the people in this thread who think that this person in sincere (if they are actually a psychopath at all). People are a means to an end to a psychopath...
I must disagree. Conceptually, JOINs are pretty simple. In fact, so simple that it admits a straightforward mathematical description.
I don't think ClojureScript could become popular beyond a subset of Clojure users unless it becomes self-hosted, so it can be compiled without a JVM and eval in a browser with an extension. The JVM is not universally loved/acceptable.

I keep meaning to make a game with it, but always give up because it's so much more painful than pretty much any other to-JS language.
Aaaaand this is why I'm developing an alternate, anonymous online personality.
I hear you and appreciate the brevity, but I think it makes the post sound (to me) a little like: "Hey, I just ask myself a simple question about what I want, follow my heart, and off I go!"
The best bit here is right in the first paragraph:
"and a European Union official involved in antitrust battles with American technology businesses."

Spying on foreign governments because you think they might present a threat to you in terms of war/foreign policy is generally defensible (although many on here would disagree with that), while using the apparatus of the state to support select private enterprise through espionage is not.

The US government has still not appreciated the full impact of the leaks or they would be far more concerned about cleaning things up fast as the economic consequences threaten to be huge.
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As a former Seattleite I think there is a decent chance this is just another one of restaurateur Ivar Haglund's futuristic adds like the Billboards for submarines [1]. Perhaps a literal acer of clams.

[1] http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2009889864_ivar18m.ht...

(the underwater billboards did turn out to be a Hoax/Stunt that were not actually put there in 1954.)
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maybe it's nice, but it's nice in the same way we've been separating HTML and JS for years, which React completely disregards.

if styles were solved in a similar way i think you'd be able to get rid of the notion of a selector all together (though it would compile down to normal selector based css).

also, components would just be easier to grok and more portable.
San Diego has a very special climate. It's basically a desert with moderate temperatures due to being on the coast. Despite its latitude, it doesn't get tropical storms very often due to the ocean currents surrounding it.

I guess that's a long way of saying you're not going to find another Southern California in the continental United States, let alone a cheaper one.

EDIT: The reason Brick from Anchorman is dumb is because he's the weatherman. The subtle joke (maybe the only one in the film) is that the weather in San Diego is so consistently nice that you can be as dumb as a brick and still be a weatherman in San Diego.
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The point was, with the attitude to strangers in clan warfare (not modern post-clan societies), psychopaths have nothing to add regarding ruthlessness. See old Scandinavia.

For stylized cattle raids (e.g. historical Ireland, before the vikings) among old neighbors, there will of course be agreed levels below extermination (or the neighbours will be gone long before western contact).
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First, thanks for all involved in getting this posted!

I'm somewhat curious on why the industry has such an aversion to simulating things in our mind. Especially when this seems to be one of the arguments employed against monads in this speech. That it basically couches something known in an odd name that is not known. Isn't this just stating that it is bad because it confuses the simulator that is the reader?

That said, the live coding aspect is something that I am just now learning from lisp with emacs. Being able to evaluate a function inline is rather nice. It is somewhat sad, as I still wish I could get a better vote in for literate programming. (Betraying my appeal to the human factor moreso than the mechanical one.)
I don't think they should ignore the jobs page, actually the opposite. It's hugely important. I don't think they should worry about calling it jobs vs. careers is all (basing this on my experience just viewing them as synonyms).
I think the magic factor is a key point. Haskell is by design a very high-level language. Things like STM and other "magic monads" allow a lot of stuff to happen under the hood, with guarantees of correctness because of other constraints on the language, but not necessarily a great degree of control of what exactly is happening. Rust, on the other hand, is meant for low-level programming and as such tends to be very explicit about what it's doing at every step. I think Rust and Haskell happen to share some similarities but ultimately they're just not designed for the same purpose. Nothing wrong with learning both :)

Side-note, Idris is a Haskell-inspired pure language which is strict by default. It's designed from the outset to be useful for systems programming, and also has some cool theoretical ideas like dependent types. It might be worth looking into for those who wish Rust was more like Haskell, or vice-versa.
Well, consuming straight nicotine is a brand new phenom, and science is racing to catch up. Give it 10 years for any definitive science to be peer reviewed, confirmed, and then generally accepted. Take a look at things like this: http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20060720/nicotine-speeds-lu...

I can't find my original sources, so please, take my personal theories with a grain of salt... Many years ago I was studying the types of cancer smokers are more likely to get other than lung cancer. After my uncontrollable urge to crunch numbers, I came up with 2/3 lung cancer, 1/3 other cancer and made an unscientific guess that nicotine plays a big part in the non-lung cancer related illness.
The article doesn't have much depth, unfortunately. I like asm.js but I'm still hoping for Dart support in Firefox and other modern browsers.
Looks great. But how does one secure that insecure connection between you and the box you're hosting the terminal on? Anyterm offers SSL at least.
Go is at the top of my list. I've just started using it at work a couple weeks ago after using exclusively Python for a while, and am really enjoying the change in thinking required for working with a statically typed language.
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Eh, I think too many parents are selfish, especially in America (not saying Sivers is--clearly he's not).

How often do you see parents dragging their screaming kids around, giving their 2-year old an iPad to shut them up at the coffee shop, buying a 50" flat screen TV while the college fund is at $0 and the bank accounts are overdrawn.

In the spirit of Sivers' post, I think if parents stopped, maybe once a month, and asked themselves "What am I doing to set my children up to have happy lives?" we'd all be better off.
I'm just talking about worrying about the name. They should absolutely think long and hard about the actual page. I've just always treated jobs and careers as synonyms in that context.
If you look at the way NSA's been operating over the last little while a sensible answer seems to be a belligerent "Why not".
San Diego is a great place to live and work. How "low cost" are you talking? There are areas of SD that are less expensive like East County in the South or Escondido in the North. It's always a tradeoff.
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Is there a sample chapter that I can read before buying the book?
We (my family, i.e.) personally found that tour rather short and significantly overpriced at $17 for about 75 minutes... in spite of that it was packed with tourists who paid extra for priority seating at the start of the tour (which isn't worth anything in practice). A real money spinner.
> It's both impressive and admirable that the author was able to not only admit that he needed therapy but to press on long enough to make therapy work for himself in an effective manner.

If it's true, that is. Pathological lying is a part of Hare Psychopathy Checklist. The entire article may well be totally made up.
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Interesting - my social anxieties exhibit themselves mostly in when I have time to think about it then I "psych" myself out.

If someone calls me on the phone then I can have a good conversation, palpations and sweating aside. However if I have to call someone then unless I do it immediately whilst suppressing the desire to think about what I'll say I go to complete mush and procrastinate my way to distraction. Mainly it's one-to-one I have a problem with.
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