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Define "threat to the world". Can Iran destroy the whole world? Fortunately, not. Can Iran destabilize, hurt and incite violence? Not only can, it is doing it right now.

>>> basing threat levels on previous actions?

That would be stupid because it means that only the second action can be countered. Given how first action can cause devastating consequences, limiting oneself to only reacting to a second one would be terminally stupid. American administration, for example, was justly criticized for sleeping through 9/11, and acting unprepared when it happened. Generals like to prepare for the past wars, it is much easier, but there's no reason to condone such behavior.

>>> who invades countries most often?

Invasions can differ. If Nazi Germany invaded Poland once, and Britain invaded Nazi Germany once, they are not equal.

>>> who's military kills the most people?

Again, depends on the people. If Al-Qaida kills 3000 Americans in 9/11, and then Americans kill 10000 Al-Qaida fighters after that, I'd say good job, they only should have done it earlier, so we would have 3000 less victims.

>>> That saga ended with almost everyone looking bad.

It looks bad to you because you take an impossible position that fighting evil should be done without hurting anyone. It would be nice if there was a nice, fluffy, unicorn-land evil that you could fight by issuing a strongly-worded declaration of condemnation and maybe refuse to send them a Christmas card next time. Unfortunately, real evil is much harder and messier to fight.
Yes, you can - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure

When I buy something online using my CC, and if the payment processor supports that (mostly local/european shops), I get redirected to a page on my bank for verification. Some banks require the PIN to be entered, some others to enter your login credentials, some coordinates from your code card or even verify with a SMS code.

Not exactly using the chip, but it involves the PIN surely.
It doesn't have to be on by default. Just make it an option, so that those of us who don't get shitfaced on a regular basis can safeguard our credit cards.
I read it as "Freeflix uses NetBSD 9.0" (and wondered how they got at 9.0 so quickly) but that's probably just me.
I assume that the poller would accept links to other sites.
Personally, I have significant projects in php but have yet to find the time to participate in social open source sites. But, I bet if I posted my coded-from-scratch php startup it would be considered sufficient to demonstrate proficiency.
> According to the very letter of the law, the queen could become absolute ruler over Canada aswell :). All hail Empress Elizabeth II, terror of all the known world?

You are more correct than you could ever possibly imagine.
Ok, interesting response, thank you.

But there's a point I'd like to be clarified, if possible: it's not the first time I read that XML is bad in some abstract way, so I'd really be interested in knowing how was XML's rep "destroyed"?
wont let me reply, radionuclides can be aqueous check out HTO and free-water tritium(FWT) in google that will get you what you are looking for.

TLDR they bond with organics and other stuff in the water, and snow initiates around particulates.
It may have nucleated around radioactive particles in the plume.
Death of a thousand cuts, then.

Sad.

Thanks for the input.
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Perl 6 is really an interesting language. There are a lot of tools like this that give you the power to say a lot with a very small number of characters.

(The flip side, of course, is that you can easily make incomprehensible code—I wouldn't want to read code using any but the most natural user-defined operators—but if you set that aside, Perl 6 has a ton of cool ideas.)
You're right, I didn't pick up on that. Sorry.
Why is that picture of Einstein's desk just after he died there? There are various ways you could work Einstein's somewhat isolated position in 1950s theoretical physics into your narrative. Just wondering if it was a random image or carried some weight in the argument?
I'm experienced with php, but after reading the list and realizing I had experience with zero of the frameworks it was apparent that my input was probably not useful for the purpose of the poll. That's fine with me - the polls not about people who haven't used any php frameworks.
I'm pretty happy with Clojure as a next-generation Lisp.
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That's pretty easy. Pre-C89 did not have void pointers, thus a generic linked list would have to use char pointers.

Beyond the wrong-ness of using an incorrect dereferencer type you would also force any users of your linked list to make an explicit cast. Meanwhile a post-C89 linked list could return void *. Thus taking advantage of C's implicit cast of void pointers.

Meanwhile if you compiled this second void pointer returning linked list under a C++ compiler would have to make an explicit cast just like in the pre-C89 case.
I would be more interested if they sent vodka using text message
If you want an independent opinion upon the pros and cons of disbanding my field of work, don't ask me.
That talk was a terrible strawman.
I always wonder about this quote,

“Whether that means we’ll all live to 150, I don’t know, but the important part is that we don’t spend the last 20 to 30 years of our lives in bad health.”

Imagine a process that makes you feel like you are 25 right up until you body gives up at a physical age of 100 or something. Do you end up doing riskier things because you don't "feel" old? And if you did would you die sooner? Its an interesting question for me. I'm not sure how that would work.

(and of course if they are successful (which I hope they are) then we're talking about pushing back retirement until 90 or maybe 95 right?)
Anyone care to explain why this is too good to be true? Because it's always too good to be true.
Fortunately, leaders of Israel do not rely on your consideration when determining what is necessary to protect their country. It is very nice that you wouldn't consider Iran attacking Israel if Israel didn't have advanced weapons - but there's a little wrinkle in this otherwise perfect argument. Iran doesn't need your consideration to attack Israel - they are perfectly capable of doing so without it, and already doing it, albeit through proxies. If Israel did not possess advanced weaponry, they would do it directly - as was done many times before in history, and only the repeated failure taught those countries that direct attack does not work. Some of them learned the lesson and reluctantly accepted the existence of Israel, some just concluded they need a different, smarter tactics.
> Netflix could port the DRM if they wanted to

I'm pretty sure the DRM used in the Netflix silverlight player is Microsoft's "PlayReady", so no... Netflix can't port it if they want.
It may be the lack of capabilities to deal with a mass radiation event.

I can't find any references to how many crew are typically assigned to the USS Ronald Regan. Guam doesn't seem like it has a lot of healthcare support for a full-aircraft carrier of irradiated seamen.
Yeah I'm aware of Telehash. Any idea how large the current DHT is?
Almost certainly they were violating Stanford's terms of use when they set up Google in their dorm room or whatever. The university where I work has all kinds of prohibitions on what students can do, e.g. no personal routers or wifi, no hosting servers, certainly nothing commercial, etc.
Indeed it would, quite right
1. Allen Newell at CMU AI built a system called Lstar that was only for "Greenspuning", it was a language for bootstrapping up higher languages. It's very hard now to find even a mention of this on Google. This was decades ago.

2. I recently have been spending time learning and using the Go language from Google. It has almost no facilities for booting new languages. Nowadays that's called building a DSL. The thing is, Go is very useful, efficient, and easy to learn. Plus, it has an excellent system for concurrent and parallel programming. They explicitly decided against building in facilities for DSLs, as they are seen as making systems hard to understand.

Alan Kay wasn't wrong, he had a particular point of view. To me, today, Kay's view seems old-fashioned compared to Go. Both Go and Kay's OOP are very sophisticated. In very different ways.
man, flash is instapwn OS.

(I wouldn't be surprised anymore if the NSA has a backdoor in it, in addition to the continuously growing list of known security vulnerabilities.)
Interesting that it's cheaper for the banks to buy back their own cards than reissue them during giftmas.
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Can anyone explain how this compound differs from the NAD you can buy as a supplement, if at all?
So what do you think is an effective way to interview for a person's ability to get things done?
It's funny how oil was running out in the 70s and still running out 40 years later. I'd imagine it will be running out pretty much the same way in 40 years, and 40 years after that.

Besides that, that Iran doesn't exist anymore.
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> So, how is Arch the "best of BSD and Linux" when it has absolutely nothing to do with BSD?

You're being a little biased here.

Systemd has been default since 2012, yet Archlinux started in 2002. Before systemd, the default system (initscripts[0]) was very much BSD-like by design. Not anymore, that's true.

Regarding packages, you don't have to use binary packages; you can very well use the ABS [1], which AFAIK really is what ports are about:

- You get a tree where you can download recipes. They're called PKGBUILD in Arch, ebuild in Gentoo, but essentially do the same thing. Take a look at nginx's PKGBUILD [2], and you will recognize a logic similar to the corresponding ebuild [3], yet far simpler (because less configurable, I hear you coming)

- You have a set of tools to create a fake root, calculate dependencies, build the package according to global properties (there are compile flags [4], but I have no idea how they compares to the famous USE flags) and install the package.

- Pre-built packages are just packages that were built by the Archlinux team with sensible defaults and have proven to be stable enough (by Arch's standards), so I as a user don't have to bother re-compiling. But the process behind is completely done with PKGBUILDs.

The AUR is "just" a staging zone where packages get to be tested by the community at large. When it's popular enough and a Trusted User commits to maintaining the package, the PKGBUILD can be part of the [extra] repository, where all packages are automatically built and proposed to arch users... but still, with the same build process.

To me, Arch sits between Gentoo/*BSD and "higher-level" distros: it keeps the process as close as possible to upstream applications by providing a minimal framework to install and update them, so that users can get understand how gluing packages together works, and what they have to do to have a functional system that does what they want, and not spend time on understanding how the packages work inside. Arch is more about understanding and using the system as a whole, than understanding every brick.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Initscripts
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS#What_is_the_Arch_Bu...
[2] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/t...
[3] http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/www-...
[4] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg#Architecture.2C...
That is actually incorrect for the majority of places. Industrial and business related consumption tends to dwarf home owner consumption, and is usually at its peak during the day.
Why not keep it simple: text message w/ reply...?
Until it's not.
Upon further reflection, the purchases in the subdivisions are also going to be very interesting to watch since the hedge funds are basically buying influence and maybe even control on the homeowner's associations when there is one. Their decision to focus on renting is often very against the goal of HOAs. Many HOAs try to restrict the percentage of homes in a subdivision that can be rentals and IIRC the ability to get either federal mortgage loans is impacted by this ratio as well.
> "with scientists set to look at how the theory of age reversal can be used to treat diseases such as cancer, dementia and diabetes."

Alzheimer's medications can generally improve cognition. Age-reversal medications might work even better if used at an early age.

I always see articles, media, and papers focusing on how something new can be used to treat some existing disease. But what I'm always thinking is "can I use this if I don't have a disease?"

It's a strange disconnect. I know everyone is thinking what I'm thinking, but you never see this in the articles. Is it some kind of taboo?
His ANC introduced "necklacing" to the world.

He was also a pawn for both the Soviet and the US and has now sold out the country to the Chinese, giving them access to enormous amounts of precious minerals - something the Apartheid government avoided (and for which was punished accordingly).
Could have been accounted for in language design, dart2js effort, bignums-for-JS effort, or some combination of the last two. I don't want to assume a conclusion, but the lack of a fix for http://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=1533 is a problem, even if there's no immediate fix. It is fixable.

/be
I wonder if these researchers could win the mprize [1] for this?

[1] http://www.mprize.org/
> Even if figures and readings are produced, some will talk about bananas, flying in an aeroplane, and background radiation

From listening to those people, you might almost think the numbers were factual information to be evaluated thoughtfully!
Yeah - but what if it returned a collection of orders also retrievable from /orders/search?date=today and customers from /customers/search?lastorderdate=today&totallifteimevalue=greaterthan,100000 and support tickets from /support/tickets/search?state=open

This kind of heterogeneous data tends to be very much discouraged under REST, but often very handy in producing real world reports.
Outside of this, what are the relationships between this BitTorrent's DHT and telehash? Are they covering the same ground but not necessarily compatible? Encrypted, distributed P2P traffic with discoverability would help a number of projects -- it would be great not to have to "pick a side" already.
If you look at what happens in the jungles, all this was happening before the colonial powers came in, and is still happening when they left. So, without going too much into appropriateness of calling these people "monkeys", I'd suggest maybe the gorilla is not the biggest problem they face.
has to happen some day, i guess
For those who are interested, there are many sources for this story (and related), giving different levels of detail, and making different claims. You can see some of them here, although there are no comments on any of them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6949089 (phys.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6946928 (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6946485 (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6946366 (ethz.ch)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6945337 (boingboing.net)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6943508 (theverge.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942360 (robohub.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942335 (thetechblock.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6941890 (digg.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6941104 (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5285021 (robohub.org)

This one is different, but clearly related. And it has comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6494517 (kurzweilai.net)
David Nolen's post explaining the benefits:

http://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javasc...

> immutable data allows a new library, Om, to outperform a reasonably performant JavaScript MVC like Backbone.js without hand optimization from the user.
Whoa. That image is enlightening. I'm curious if it is highly curated, conveniently leaving out certain covers, of if it is an accurate reflection of the newspaper's bias.
Ok, if this : "energy power density up to approximately 39 kilowatts/kilogram" holds up, it will change things dramatically. At that power density you can build walking robots which are humanoid and faster and more powerful with enough weight budget left over to carry along power packs. Thanks for the link.
Real science has almost nothing to do with science-fictional technology. This sounds irritating, until you think about the alternative.
If you like this, you might also enjoy http://remix.kwed.org/
Snowflakes, like other precipitation, form around some sort of condensation nucleus -- in other words, dust. Pure snow and fresh rain is actually pretty dirty. You might have noticed how clean windows won't be clean after they get rained on and it dries.

It seems plausible to me that some of the radioactive particles would be a form that could be incorporated into snowflakes, but I'm not an expert.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding
That zoom's all the Buttons aswell.
The discovery concerns decline in mitochondrial function with age in muscle tissue.

Another article about this, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25445748, explains that this could never be a cure-all for ageing. Other aspects such as shortening of telomeres or damage to DNA would not be reversed.
I'd rather have the choice. I have no choice with ageing. The same is true of "immortality". What immortality really means is that you kind of have a choice of not disappearing forever (well unless a car runs you down or something, but in the future that can probably be fixed, too, by "backing ourselves up").
Yes. http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
Text messages are only the relatively boring first step in this kind of project. If these guys go on to implement IP/Vodka they can proudly follow in the footsteps of such
hacks as RFC 1149 :-) "The network smells a little slow today"
You have to make up your mind: do we trust experts, or not?

The person I was replying to was clearly on the "yes" side of that.

You can certainly disagree, but then your argument is going to be radically different.
A rather linkbaity headline; I send text messages using vodka pretty often, and then I have to check to see what exactly I said in the morning.

Interesting, though. Seems like a series of breezes could seriously impact the communication, though, making the whole robots-in-the-sewer system not work quite so well.
Well I do see this quote:

"Turner said a “magic pill” that reverses ageing is several years away, partially due to the cost of the compound, which would be about $50,000 a day for a human."

So in guessing there's some special processing of the compound or a special way to get it into each cell somehow.
+1, pip install it and then add it to installed_apps...
Http://www.bluepointseo.co.uk/blog/social/free-seo/
It sounds like an expensive drug habit to have.
To start with, imagine the withdrawal symptoms.
The same is true of artificial intelligence. For example, articles always mention that brain simulation would help us understand brain diseases (alzheimer, schizophrenia, etc.) better and barely mention the much bigger implications of strong AI (like that it might be the last thing humans ever need to invent).
Rather selfish? We'll have enough problems in the coming decades with geriatric baby boomers, you now want to give people the option to live forever?
They should put it on kickstarter, asking for donations and early adopters. I'm pretty sure they would've fulfilled their goals in a week or less.
Pretty neat that I know the people in this article personally.
A note about your choice of the word "even" - Alpha radiation will kill you a lot more effectively than Gamma when it's inside you. This is for the same reason it's not damaging outside - Alpha radiation doesn't travel very far before being absorbed.

When held close to skin, the majority is absorbed by the top layers of flesh and only a small amount will penetrate deeper. Conversely, when inside you, only a small amount will escape your body.
I find that response insufficient, not to mention insufferably smug. You can't control when other people leave it turned on, merchants can't control when their customers have it turned on, and there are cases where people spend large enough amounts of money to worry about, get bottlenecked at checkout, and for whatever reason might not do a great job at smoothly handling SMS challenge/response. If having an expensive night out at the bar is too déclassé for you, how about the Christmas shopping rush at a high end department store that has shitty wireless reception?

Just because a solution solves your use case doesn't mean it's a good idea. The fact is, this would be a total nightmare to bars and B&M retail establishments, to name two examples, and any significant change to the credit card system requires merchants to be on board.

The best solution for customers is still chargebacks. Unfortunately, merchants still have to eat the cost when a chargeback happens, which is why security provisions like chip and PIN typically come with the revocation of chargeback privileges. But if merchants are the ones driving these security features, they have absolutely no reason to go along with something that creates a worse experience for them.
A reasonable summary of what they're trying to build here is "HyperCard for the internet", which is actually a pretty cool idea.

That sounds very much like what the VPRI people have been doing all along.
Don't forget http://keygenjukebox.com!
> Better: enter domains which employ such tactics in your /etc/hosts file as 0.0.0.0.

As far as I can tell, blocking *.tynt.com cuts down on 99% of such gimmmicky tactics.

(I wonder why they're such a major provider; the paranoid in me wants to believe that they're using patents aggressively; the lazy person in me doesn't care.)
MasterCard has the same thing in the US. I think it's called SecureCode.
Oh hey.

I'm the developer that's been working on Play. There's some more information about it here: https://www.found.no/foundation/presenting-play/

In summary, it's a preview - neither feature complete nor bug free, and it badly needs some better getting started material. We wanted to get it out there as we think it's quite useful already, however.

We've pledged to open source it, and that's something I'll be working on in not too long, I hope. First out will probably be the search editor, which is something that's quite useful to run on a real cluster.

Happy to hear any and all constructive criticism. :)
"The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the assembler.

The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now there are ten thousand languages.

Each language has its purpose, however humble. Each language expresses the Yin and Yang of software. Each language has its place within the Tao.

But do not program in COBOL if you can avoid it."

but very nice graphics )
There are a lot of haters of Telegram on HN and I think one of the reason is that they are a Russian company or the fact that a Russian developer found the flaw first. :) But wasn't Pavel Durov the one who offered Edward Snowden a job back then? There are many "secure messaging" apps out there, but they all suck in terms of UX. Telegram looks nice and will only get better. Also, they have an API since day one. Show some respect!
I added it afterwards as an inside joke about arguing what Dr. Kay did or didn't mean decades later. Dr. Kay is still alive and doing good work of a different nature, but the gap between computer science theory and industry practice is as wide as it ever was.
GPL is open for all users. BSD is open for users of a self-selected group of developers.
>I'd imagine it will be running out pretty much the same way in 40 years, and 40 years after that.

It will run out, though. The only questions are when, and what the contingencies will be once it does.