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>>> I'm not alone in feeling that a period of non-interventionism from America might help.

I know. People that thought if USA sees no evil, hears no evil and refuses to speak about evil then all troubles would happen to somebody else existed since there was such thing as USA. They were wrong then and are still as wrong now.

>>> The question that never seems to be asked, is why did September 11 happen

You must be kidding me. One has to be unusually dense or unwilling to hear to ignore the deafening choir of non-interventionists and generic America-is-root-of-all-evil crowd blaming America for what happened at 9/11. Of course, it only tells us about them, not about why this heinous atrocity has really happened. The solution there is simple - these terrorists saw America as their enemy, and given the opportunity to deal a heavy blow to the enemy - opportunity enabled in some measure by complacency of the American administration, who for a long time thought terror is something that happens in bad places like Middle East but can't happen in America, despite many warnings to the contrary - given that opportunity, they struck their blow. One doesn't need any more complicated theory than that. As for why they chose America as their enemy - one doesn't need too much theory in that either, given that ideologists of Al-Qaeda explain it all by themselves. Their goals as religious fanatics dreaming of subjugating other people to their rule are incompatible with America's role as a world power strategically and with America's support of people unwilling to accept radical islamist rule tactically. Of course Al-Qaeda is the enemy of America - what else could they be, given that their premises are diametrically opposed to every premise this country is built on?

>>> Bombing and invading hasn't worked.

What you're calling "worked"? To make the strategy, you first have to define the goal. If the goal is "to ensure America is never the target of a terrorist attack", the solution is simple - America must cease to exist. If America exists, it can be target of a terrorist attack, and there's no known way to prevent it with 100% certainty. One, however, can make it harder to do, and for that there are many various plans, both good and bad.
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Yes, why pay $10M for something that could be accomplished with "Hey this is better, you guys should switch. Here's why"
uploading remains the most promising approach for completely eliminating ageing

If so, in the future the equivalent of CryptoLocker will be a terrorist weapon that takes hostages.
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Hi Can you recommend a mobile mail client that doesn't use a ton of bandwidth? 
I'm using the standard mail client, but it doesn't compress traffic, so it has to think for a long time and I can't use email "on the go".
That's sad indeed.

I'm not blaming staff, but I think there's something they could have done indeed. Esport[1] is doing quite well nowadays, especially around blizzard games.

Blizzard has a lot of money to invest in this, seeing a big return value in turning a game into a sport, but it may not be possible without sponsors. If you want to organize tournaments with prizes, you have to have sponsors. In big esl events, those are intel, acer, nvidia, etc. Esport events are extremely well targeted events for them, the only better option would be to add ads directly in games.

Crowdfunding prizes is also an option. This week-end, a bitcoin starcraft challenge[2] was organized, mainly funded (to the words of organizer during stream) by reddit users giving bitcoins, and a few other sponsor - mainly bitcoin trading websites. Don't try to hide this into some kind of premium account. People don't want that, they want to see events.

You can't just rely on a company you seem to have no contact with to just give away big money (even if they are indeed the ones to blame, if that's article is true, because they were no right to their word).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_sports

[2] http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Bitcoin_StarCraft_Chal...

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> To hack a debit card, the attacker must intercept both the mag stripes and the PIN that goes with them

As a naive non-credit-card-European I used my debit card in a Chicagoland Target a couple of years ago. There was no chip-reader, so the clerk took my card and swiped it for me, with a scathing glower.

I stood and waited for something to sign - nope. That was it, payment accepted. I was rather shocked.
Now everyone can have their very own custom recipe app.
> The ransom value decreases over time following exponential decay with a half-life of 365/2=182.5 days.

It's obviously someone taking the piss.
I spent the last year doing lisp as much as I could, and I've become a right convert. I've got some C and python down already.

This year, I am currently torn between:

-Haskell (to go full blown functional crazy)
-Smalltalk (to go full blown object crazy)
-Javascript (to finally write some stuff for the web/browsers)
- Java (to sell out and lose the will to live?)

Any advice is more than welcome. I'm probably looking for the "programming language that changes the way you think" aspect, since I've already got a paying job...
Do you have a link to that transcript? My Googling is failing me at the moment.
Not in the freemium model. In the freemium model it is easy to get many registered users because you're giving the basic version of the game for free and charging for extras. And if 10% of users pay for some extras at all, you may consider yourself very lucky. Typical paying users share is 2-5%.
Another problem is 1 million of those users don't play all the time (we had only 5% of them logged at a time), however it is possible to get most of them active for a short time by organizing special events / competitions for them. Therefore you need to have capacity for handling that 1 million of users for a very short period of time, therefore you need to scale, but you are not going to make money from them constantly.
We are probably living in one of Earth's great mass extinctions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
Zooming out, how does UCD protect against the basic risk of paying too much attention to the customers/users? It's like the old story of Henry Ford saying if he had asked his customers what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. It's the programmers/technologists that often have the insight of knowing what the customers would want if they knew they could have it.
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In France, "philosopher" is a very common title for a public intellectual to hold.
and then abandoning it somewhere along the way. Access is a great example.

Why do you think these tools aren't being used. I know a small company using Access to deliver business management applications and they are turning a $100k/year profit. And that's in a random, small, and crappy city in a third-world country.
This guy clearly rode the crazy bus to crazytown.
'Concerns' and 'known flawed' are not the same thing.
Closing it as a duplicate is only debatable, in worst case. Hardly an impressive example of how SO is generally getting "negative". I see no element of malice or bad will at all.

I can't see how the alleged prejudice against new members was involved, either.

The OP had asked nearly 50 questions before asking the one that got closed off as a duplicate - only 2 out of the 50 were closed, and some were highly appreciated by the community (+16 votes).

The misjudgement itself is also far from obvious.

Furthermore, the question is 2.5 years old to start with - not a short time, given that SO itself is 5 years old, and it didn't gain its wild popularity from day 1. And if I understand well, SO "turning negative", which is what magic_man is alarming us, is not supposed to be old news, but a recent troubling phenomenon.

Also before the question was closed, the OP was given an answer that he himself marked as accepted - so he got his problem solved!

As for the duplicate thing - well, the other question contains a fully working (after corrections) code sample that does precisely what the OP wanted. The "ok" function is testing the diagonals.

Note that this guy "garima" wasn't specific about what exactly he struggled with trying to implement the algorithm that checks diagonals. He only asked "how to do it". Broad question - broad answer: here's code that does just that, go figure.

Had he had further doubts (eg. understanding the code from Mister Bunker's question), noone would stop him to ask another one question, targetting some particular difficulties.

Many people in this thread supported the notion that SO is so negative (sharply chosen words like "snobbery", "arrogance" etc. were used), but the example you gave is EVERYTHING I got that's supposed to substantiate this claim, even though I specifically asked about examples...

This is why I remain unconvinced
The delusion that many people are actually one person recurs in mental illness, there's probably even a name for it.

Coupled with insecurity, it might lead to paranoia and feelings of persecution by a powerful puppet-master. Here it seems paired with grandiose delusions, perhaps because the person is otherwise intelligent & high-functioning, or using drugs which create a sense of invulnerability. Either way, there are strong indicators of mental illness.

I would put joking (or trolling) as-if-mentally-ill as a second-place possibility, and teen-daydreams as a third-place possibility. But maybe all three in different proportions.
There are still so many ATMs running Windows XP. Not that the regional banks running them are actually patching them in the first place, but still.
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But do we really know what we are supposed to teach them? Imagine this magic pill was available three hundred years ago. Imagine what the world would be like, if people who believed slavery was part of life, and that women were inherently inferior to men, were not only alive, but still calling the shots.
Wow, For a second I thought maybe someone hacked your account and posted that. Others have already pointed out what was the flaw, so I hope you get why exactly you were downvoted.
Get push notifications from different mail services
Life has necessitated three different mailboxes from three different services (Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail). I got a nexus 5 recently. After I installed the app for each service my phone's battery won't last longer than 3-4 hours. The problem is that all of these apps are constantly synchronizing with their own servers. Has anyone found a solution to this problem? Is there a way to get notifications from all of the services all at once?
I love this idea! The only thing bothering me is the font on the code snippets. I don't know if its a google doc thing, but the font used in the snippets makes code a bit of a chore to read.
Agile seems to drive longer working hours. Instead of a big release 4 times a year, its lots of short very intense sprints.

Also, light blue on white is basically unreadable.
Many universities link these disciplines (and Psychology, and Linguistics) explicitly -- Its called Cognitive Science. I majored in it and couldn't imagine a better thing to have studied.
Actually, chiptunes (C64) and MODs (Amiga) used quite different playback technologies.

The C64 synthesized its sound via the MOS Technology 6581/8580 SID (Sound Interface Device). It was limited to 3 voices, so the only way to emulate chords on a single voice was to arpeggiate rapidly through a sequence of notes.

The Amiga used four PCM sample based sound channels (in stereo - two left, two right). So chords could easily be sampled and played back on one or more channels.

Chiptunes were limited to the distinctive '8 bit electronic' style - although it didn't stop groups like Maniacs of Noise pushing the technology to use primitive samples alongside the traditional sounds; one notable example was the 'Stormlord' soundtrack.

MODs, being sample-based, could be made to sound like quite respectable audio recordings. Even so, there were some musicians who tried to emulate the old C64 sound on the Amiga, hence the profusion of chiptune-sounding MODs.
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There was a recent comment by tptacek in another thread which I agree with: you really only need to know a couple of programming languages before you start hitting diminishing returns in terms of what you can implement. We should focus instead on learning new concepts or new problem domains.

I'm trying to revisit statistical modelling and pick up some machine learning basics over the next year.
It is substantiated by centuries of human history. And by physics and economics too. Particularly, economics teaches us that when resource's price raises, attractiveness of substitutes and thus investment into improving these substitutes raise considerably. And physicists are working on solving problems that block our progress for finding alternatives right now (e.g. on increasing energy density for electrical storage, increasing energy efficiency of solar cells) - and there are some encouraging signs there too. E.g. this one: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
may allow producing solar energy much cheaper than before.
When I bought a new car a while ago, my mom asked what color it was (black) and my dad asked what kind it was (g37). Some people don't really care how fast it is if its pretty.
Looking for an Android mail client with configurable push notification settings
Push notifications are great, but without the ability to customize them - they're too inflexible. I want to specify when push notifications can arrive and create filters to get silent notifications from all my social networks, and it would be really cool to have the ability to set a custom sound for notifications.
AFAIK Brazilian law forbids extradition of criminals to countries that have a death penalty, so I guess he would be safe if he gets here.
> Come on. Appending a URL to the copied text doesn't break anyone's experience. It's a very tiny inconvenience at best.

No. It makes something that should be in muscle memory, which I shouldn't even have to think about, which I do countless times a day on other sites and with other tools exactly the way I expect, and forces me to stop and think about it. It breaks my concentration and breaks my flow. Sites which do this are broken. The site owners have reached out and purposefully chosen to make my tools misbehave. You don't get to tell me that's a "tiny inconvenience". Especially not when the reasoning behind it is so utterly asinine.

> most people on the Internet copy and steal things without giving credit.

I really, really hope you're trolling. Even if this bore the slightest, tiniest resemblance to reality, it wouldn't justify trying to break my tools. "There exists an infringing use case therefore all uses must be interfered with"? No. No. NO.
Why do you believe that improving the quality of the decades that are now the last won't prolong peoples lives? Personally, I'd expect the result to be pretty drastic.
Regarding dead dog, I wonder if this is related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnfPH6zQbXo
On my Linux system it's provided by psmisc:

http://sourceforge.net/p/psmisc/code/ci/master/tree/src/kill...
Yahoo pipes would work really well if you're willing to write a few HTML regexes or dom element selectors.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
Well, like most things on the Web, they're not doing what the HTTP standard says, they're doing something related to what the standards say they should do but with some concessions to reality.

Look at "We donâ€™t believe itâ€™s right". There's no Euro sign in ISO-8859-1. The Euro symbol was not even dreamed up when ISO-8859-1 was standardized.

But there's a Euro sign -- retroactively -- in Windows-1252, and it's been a long-standing tradition among Web browsers to pretend ISO-8859-1 and Windows-1252 are equivalent even though in Unicode they clearly aren't. It's why you can write &#x85; and usually get the same ellipsis as &#x2026;.

So you can forgive me for expecting another long-standing tradition, which is to auto-detect encodings that aren't specified. Maybe browsers have stopped doing that. It's a bit of a loss when it comes to UTF-8, a clear choice for an encoding to try by default in 2013.

Of course the page should ideally be written better, but that's a push and pull between HTML writers and browser developers that will never be over.
Yes, indeed, it is another encrypted web based communication app. I personally, am not aware of any others, thought I do not doubt that some might exist. There are a number of apps out there, but websites that offer mil-spec encryption? I have never seen any.

There are, in fact, no libraries being used, and while we do mention credit to those who developed code or algorithms, all code is in-line, and therefore viewable from the browser. (At present leaflet is included but, as soon as we have integrated the latest version, it will be in-lined)

In our opinion, it is this ability for a competent technical person to confirm the absence of back-doors, and it is this that offers protection against surveillance.

We do not use SSL as there is absolutely no point. We know that it is NOT secure against government snooping. As the encryption offered by TribalContact is double layer we feel that to use SSL is simply a waste. If we know it is broken, why bother using it?

I am sorry that you seem to have found a number of spelling mistakes, but I do wonder if maybe this is because this is written in British English rather than American English. Neither I nor MS Word have found any errors. If you can identify any errors I would be most appreciative if you could point them out, and I will correct them.

I think that I have been quite clear that I do not expect nor require trust from the community. The source code is viewable, and before trust can be established verification should be completed. Perhaps it sounds rude, but it is not for me to prove that I am trust worthy, that, after all, is a fools errand. Only by the community verifying that what I say is true can that trust be gained.

I still feel that the combination of perfect forward security, ephemeral keys, and double layer encryption offers the claimed privacy, anonymity and security.

One final point that I think has been overlooked, is that TribalContact is designed to be a simple, zero install, easy to use solution to the problem of wall-to-wall surveillance. Most other encryption apps are so hard to install, configure and use that people such as Glenn Greenwald are not able to reliably use them. TribalContact was designed from the ground-up to be usable by anyone, and as such offers significant utility above any other encryption application I have ever used.

I hope that these comments answer some of your questions.

I am very grateful for your feedback, and am always more than prepared to answer any questions. If you have anything else that you would like to discuss please feel free to contact me, or add a new comment on hacker news.

Liam Carton
liam.l.carton@gamil.com
I wrote an alright one in Python for use in my HN app for BlackBerry 10. Not sure how good it is, but check it out here: https://github.com/krruzic/Reader-YC/tree/master/app

I'm not sure what you're trying to do though. I used beautifulsoup because I couldn't get lxml working on BB10, but if it was switched to using lxml it would be much faster.
A lot of diabetes and influenza related diseases could also be related to ageing.
I need to create a autohotkey or something to insert this everywhere where I see a comparison between Agile and Waterfall:

- This content contains a false dichotomy between Agile and Waterfall, used as an argument to justify Agile. Every healthy person can imagine that iterations are often needed and sometimes even inevitable. In the real world, there isn't a situation with a sharp distinction between projects that prohibit iterations and projects that have iterations in all phases. Iterations are not invented in 2001 by a couple of guys thinking up a manifesto.

The term Waterfall is an imaginary enemy (maybe once used with good intentions to make a point clear) and Agile isn't a solution for all (software project) world problems. In the years before the "Agile enlightenment" successful products are built with or without iterations.
I had a quick look. There are 6 calls to malloc in the killall program and several calls to functions like asprintf which will allocate. See my other post for source.
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Ask HN: is LTC consolation coin?
people who invested in GPU mining rigs for BTC found them un-profitable with the move to ASICs. However, when LTC was born, they had a new chance for profitability.

So I'm asking you: isn't LTC created just as a consolation coin for people who bought GPU mining rigs for BTC?
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Try mymail.my.com! it's an aggregator. I'm pretty sure it supports any mailbox: yahoo, outlook, aol, gmail, for sure. It's got push notifications as well and an unreal design.
You mean Windows XP Mode? Well you can completely disable networking in settings, or set to "Internal network" to be able to only communicate with host. However if host is infected with some network-spreading virus, I suspect XP still could get infected.