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I disagree that the article painted the issue as a national issue. To the contrary, this is the rare occasion that I see a recognition on the part of Europeans that the US is composed of 50 states, and that making conclusions about the EU based only upon information from Romania, Croatia and Poland is probably ill-advised. It recognizes that states like California are big (being more populous than all of of Canada). And it recognizes what many Americans already know: the South is America's Eastern Europe.
I'm going to skip on the depression stuff apart from: go see a doctor (gp- general practitioner) and tell them you are depressed. Explain why. They will help you. They will also refer you to a free or affordable place to go get counciling. If they dont help, find another.

Regarding work: it is very hard to fire someone in nz. It will likely not happen. You need to talk to your boss be honest and open they will probably give you paid leave or work out manageable part time hours for you to keep things ticking over but not have too much pressure.

The prospects are extremely good in nz right now so I'm not sure where you get that idea. I can refer you to a good recruiter if you want.
The request is going over tor-- do timing attacks work with that? When I browse with tor my connection is so slow that I don't think I could get good data for timing attacks.
amazon.com's homepage has a letter outlining this change/new content and ends with: Amazon Prime is the best deal going at just $99/year.

This HN entry links directly to the 'Learn More' or 'Start your free month' link provided in that letter (button is variable depending on if you're a member), which is an index of content.

Also, if I go to a amazon.com/prime from a browser that doesn't have me signed in automatically to my Prime account (otherwise it gives me a 'give the gift of prime option since it sees I'm already a member), it shows me a 30 day free trial button and says directly under the button: "After your free trial, Amazon Prime is just $99/year. You can cancel anytime. "

I don't feel the price is obfuscated. It's not perfect, but I don't get the impression there's bullshit afoot.
Is your iPad permanently hooked up to your TV? Many people have rather large HDTVs and would much prefer to watch on there rather than on a tiny screen you have to carry around or dock somewhere.
It's blatantly obvious to you. It may not be blatantly obvious to a nationalistic charismatic leader who thinks Franco wasn't too bad and actually needs only a bit of better PR and some long tongues silenced, and it would be for the best of public interest to do this. Look at what's going on in Russia. You think it can't happen in Spain or Germany? It already happened before and very well can happen again. Anytime and anywhere. The layer protecting the rights of people from oppression - including popular and widely supported oppression - is very thin. EU rule made it even thinner. Now anybody can memory-hole any information they don't like - and this would especially true for powerful and connected people who want to suppress information about their wrongdoings. You worry about teenage shenanigans - but this can - and will - be used to hide very adult shenanigans with very important consequences too. And you will have no say in if it's "public interest" or not.
Why are Nordic game developers so good?
ANSI CL standard, published in 1994.

You wrote:

> I'm not advancing a moral argument. I'm advancing an historical one. It's an amoral fact that Common Lisp was standardized more than twenty years ago

It was standardized 1994 with the ANSI CL standard. Exactly 20 years ago.

> - before the commercial internet,

Commercial ISPs started around 1989.

> wide availability of systems suitable for distributed computing,

Distributed computing was available earlier.

> and even before it was clear that GUI's would win the war.

Lisp supported GUIs much earlier. The Common Lisp standards group had even a subgroup for this topic.

Anyway it's not clear what this all means, when CL was developed. Scheme, Objective C, C, C++, Smalltalk, were all developed before Common Lisp. What follows from that?
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Hrm, I wonder what they were using for their source control before making it available on GitHub, they've squashed all commits into one giant commit which is really, really unfortunate, especially for people who might want to contribute or understand the code base better. There are tools to port commit history over into git, they should have used such a tool.

https://github.com/UWNetworksLab/arrakis/commits/master
I just got up and running with a temporary HTPC that is attached to my second TV. Its a crappy Nettop with an Atom and 1x PCI-e ION2.

I'm getting 30FPS @ 720p on the TV streaming a number of games (Civ V, Stick of Truth); I also tried a number of non-Steam games which worked great as well.

Requirements seem very, very modest.
I could see the car dashboard as a viable place...and MAYBE a fridge advertising food sales from local supermarkets even restaurants...but thermostat?
This is embracing the second system effect & NIH syndrome that many large apps eventually get.
Yeah, you can't. I don't watch cable television, I just use the internet access. So unless I feel like donning a standard cable television package + HBO for $120+/mo I can't get access to HBO Go. It's a shame, I'd certainly be willing to pay for just HBO.
Congrats on launching by the way. You've probably heard the old Reid Hoffman quote about launch dates. Site looks really good, best of luck!
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Great stuff, Matt. I've always wanted to build something in the RSS space that could net me some extra cash. Write-ups like this let me know it's not a totally hopeless idea!

As for optimizing when to check for new feed items, I recently moved to the "moving average" strategy described here [1] for my personal feed reader [2]. Overall, more active feeds have really benefited from it while I still need to tweak the algorithm for less active feeds, I think.

Here's to another successful year for Go Read!

[1] http://www.rn.inf.tu-dresden.de/uploads/publikationen/feedpa...

[2] https://github.com/edavis/riverpy
The 3 second audio loop while loading from disk is seared into my brain!
Now we're going to have to jailbreak our "refrigerators, car dashboards, thermostats, glasses, and watches" in addition to our phones.
Yeah, it's pretty awesome. I built http://test.gmbl.io off that data set to learn to code. Good place to start.

Kickdex is also pretty awesome, they use the Opta data to produce real time indices for teams and players.
There isn't really a way for the browser to know if it's your ISP that doesn't support IPv6 or the site itself. It would have to ask an external host what your IP address was, then look up that address in a database of ISPs, then check to see if the ISP supports IPv6.

Edit: there is an extension that tells you if the site loaded in IPv4 or v6, but it can't tell you why. Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipvfox/ and Chrome https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipvfoo/ecanpcehffn...
I'm picturing this as all of them sitting around a big table in a hotel bar, chatting while the writer records their questions and answers.

Andrew Binstock, Dr. Dobb's suddenly asks, "At the ACM Turing Centennial in 2012, you stated that you were becoming convinced that P = N P. Would you be kind enough to explain your current thinking on this question, how you came to it, and whether this growing conviction came as a surprise to you?"

Don Knuth replies, "As you say, I've come to believe that P = N P, namely that there does exist an integer M and an algorithm that will solve every n-bit problem belonging to the class N P in nM elementary steps...."

Scott Aaronson, MIT immediately has an aneurysm and after all of the convulsions and frothing is over, when the EMT's leave, they prop him back up in his chair and he only has the wherewithal to ask, "Would you recommend to other scientists to abandon the use of email, as you have done?"
So, Carmack (cofounder/CTO of Id Software, later acquired by Zenimax) is basically being used by Zenimax as the justification for raiding Oculus.

This is really troubling, least of all because a) Carmack built the fucking 3D games industry nearly by himself and b) used the freedom of his position to work on interesting new technology.

There's got to be some way the rest of us can protest this, because this has really, really bad precedent for any of us that want to work on interesting projects for the hell of it. This is terrihorribad.
this is hacker news. and this post is questioning if its worth the effort to copy navigation to 8 pages. surely the obvious answer is to just include header/footer files (e.g. simple example in php: <? include('header.php');?>).

this way will just increase cost for his/her client down the road. Use even a super simple templating system (even if it is just including header/footer).

sure, using WP is overkill. but this is just silly to have actual plain .html files...

plus in a url http://example.com/about-us.html doesn't look as nice as http://example.com/about-us

(something like mod_rewrite could fix this, but if he/she is copy/pasting headers/footers i doubt that would be implemented...)
So it's not just me... the whole thing seems quite hard to understand, and somewhat full of hot air?
Right, you have a header, a collection of body docs, and a footer. A markdown converter if you'd like. make and then scp transfer or commit to vcs, etc.

As these are common tools there's no cognitive overhead for developers and it can still be automated for users.
I would expect some defendants, faced with a troll with few / no assets, to ask the judge to require the troll to put up a bond. I've never heard of that happening and don't know offhand if it's even permissible. If I were still involved in patent litigation for defendants, though, I'd certainly look into it.
Only mentioned in passing, but: Third, we have already accepted that our design is vulnerable to end-to-end timing attacks https://blog.torproject.org/blog/one-cell-enough

It doesn't matter if your connection is slow, all that matters is that latency is fairly consistent during the attack. You can use statistics to extract high-confidence data even from noisy signals, if you run the attack long enough to get lots of timing data.
Of course inequality is always present. That's not an argument against anything.

But does it always need to grow without bound? Is it the same in all countries - and if not, why not? And how does welfare for the worst off change with different amounts of inequality?
I would agree with the other comment that I suspect it would be impossible to get accurate data for a timing attack over Tor. Not only is the connection slow, but my experience has been that bandwidth and latency can be highly variable.
He said that an NSA honeypot would be more subtle, without glaring security issues like the ones in the presented example.
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Well, there you go, the first problem is ... "Pays for a beta". Why does Google need to have people pay to be their beta test group?
Silent Circle's services are designed to be 'untrusted.' Keys never leave the client. Feel free to build the client yourself, the code's on GitHub (the android clients are currently a bit easier to build than the iOS versions... ).
Good point, but I think that making a database with this information would certainly be doable for companies like Microsoft and Google.
You joke, but people need to start thinking about how to translate adblock to the up and coming IoT ecosystem.
Being of the same vintage as the author, I have an arcade story that is somewhat similar.

My step-father was a full time employee of the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, and back then one of the perks was that all family members received a free admission pass for the duration of the fair, which was 20 days.

There was an arcade located at the end of midway and being on summer vacation, I would of course go to the CNE every day and play videogames. Specifically one obscure Atari game called Food Fight.

I spent a solid two weeks mastering that game, which for those who are unfamiliar has a very high twitch factor and a never-ending wave progression similar to Robotron.

For those two weeks I simply could not crack the top five scores on the machine. I spent hours, and my entire allowance, trying again and again to get that high score.

Finally, on the second last day of the fair, I did it. I had been playing for at least a solid 30 minutes and although I didn't get a crowd of a dozen, I had a couple of people watching. When I lost my last man and found I had reached the high score, I felt triumphant - like I had really accomplished something amazing and important. I left the machine aglow.

Then, on the last day of the fair, I returned to the arcade to bask in my glory, only to discover they'd wiped the high scores the previous night. I was so heartbroken I didn't even play to try and regain my title.

I now have a modest collection of videogames and pinball machines, one of which is Food Fight. I'm 30 years older and my reflexes aren't what they used to be, so I will probably never regain that score again, but it's nice to fire it up and return to 1984 occasionally.
Did you read the entire article? The author uses Spain's legal treatment of those accused of torture in the Spanish civil war to make a very cogent argument that laws mandating we censor the past can have effects as broad as lossless public record. To say this is a strawman argument you would have to provide some evidence the author is ignoring/hiding the fact that the EU has clear criteria for scrubbing search.
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I agree with your conclusions. However, you make the argument that what was possible in previous generations not possible today is a bad thing. This is not a good argument. Actions should be judged to be good or bad irrespective of historical precendent/non-precedent.
The impact of technology on inequality is already quite pronounced in a number of occupations. For example, many after-school teachers in Asia are now outcompeted by star teachers enhanced by video and computer-aided teaching platform.

> For example, I suspect we will soon see the rise of educator superstars who command audiences of hundreds of thousands for their Internet courses and earn sums way above the traditional dreams of academics.

This is already happening in Asia. A South Korean tutor makes $4 million a year. A tutor in Thailand built and owned an 18-story tutoring center in a downtown area.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2013/08/11/s...
[2] http://image.soidb.com/bangkok/zm/105100922_01.jpg
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I don't see MD5 anywhere in that certificate. I think that you are confusing the ciphersuite (which is negotiated dynamically between the client and the server on each connection, and is actually used to directly protect and authenticate the content of the communication) with the certificate (which is issued infrequently -- typically once per year or once every other year -- by a certificate authority and used to authenticate the server's public key, which is one prerequisite for secure session negotiation).

The signature algorithm in the certificate itself is sha1WithRSAEncryption (try exporting the cert and running "openssl x509 -in their_cert.pem -text -noout" for a summary of the content). I also don't see RC4 anywhere in the cert.

It is true that the web server is using RC4 to protect the TLS connections that it negotiates (probably inadvisedly!), and that MD5 is also used in its negotiated ciphersuite, but the use of these algorithms isn't specified, required, recommended, or assumed anywhere in the digital certificate that the server is presenting to authenticate the connection. Rather, the choice of RC4 (and MD5) is made dynamically during the ciphersuite negotiation between the client and server on each connection, presumably based on the (somewhat obsolete) server defaults that the bank has chosen.

I agree with the previous commenter that RC4 can't be specified (or used) in certificates, though MD5 can be used as part a signature method within the certificate, but happens not to be in your example.
Why are you getting your hands dirty with a CMS?? It's a simple tool and should be used as such.
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How often does anyone look at their thermostat? Showing ads there seems like a waste of effort. Far more valuable to mine the data and show even more 'relevant' ads when you next go online.
>they're able to avoid making you feel like you're the product (advertising audience)

instead they are making you feel like a well informed consumer and voter :)
My main problem is how completely vague this ruling is. Yes this article takes the point to an extreme that no one who supports the ruling agrees with. But that's because no one has given any concrete outline of how the rule is supposed to work, so the media is going to run with their wildest imaginings.

If Europe wants to have a right to forget they need to create a specific legal framework that tells companies what they need to do. They can't just say "People have the right to be forgotten, lol you deal with it google et. al." Is Google and every other indexing website now meant to either comply or face a legal battle for every single request they get? That's ludicrous.
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Archives are the most dangerous thing. Definitely nobody in Europe should be allowed there. God knows what forgotten terrors can be hidden there. Free information is dangerous and unpredictable. I'm sure unlicensed information retention will be a crime in EU very soon, if it isn't already. Of course, if you work for the government, it's different - then information retention would be mandatory. Just in case, you know, they suspect you being a terrorist or disclosing some facts about your government they don't want people to hear or something like that.
Larry's opinion is irrelevant. If you call yourself an Economist, and missed the bubble+collapse, you should resign, and stop talking.

"Summers oversaw passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed Glass-Steagall, permitted the previously illegal merger that created Citigroup, and allowed further consolidation in the financial sector. He also successfully fought attempts by Brooksley Born, chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the Clinton administration, to regulate the financial derivatives that would cause so much damage in the housing bubble and the 2008 economic crisis. He then oversaw passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which banned all regulation of derivatives, including exempting them from state antigambling laws."

...

"Rajan warned that this bonus culture rewarded bankers for actions that could destroy their own institutions, or even the entire system, and that this could generate a "full-blown financial crisis" and a "catastrophic meltdown."

When Rajan finished speaking, Summers rose up from the audience and attacked him, calling him a "Luddite," dismissing his concerns, and warning that increased regulation would reduce the productivity of the financial sector."
What good is a blocked RSS to anybody?
If you are going to run a hidden service, be aware that running a Tor router and a hidden service on the same host - doing so may expose the location of the hidden service: http://cybermashup.com/2013/09/04/dont-run-a-tor-router-and-...
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Thing is am not joking! but at the same time well I dunno if its just rumors. I own a nexus mobile which is a google product but never had ads on it... Also its a high quality product for a cheap price. I like that, I wouldn't mind it if they were to show me 1 add once a while tbh.
Same applies with all of their products. They are reducing their products costs but not its quality and instead they are finding other ways to increase their revenue but without having you paying any hidden fees. I find that fair and square and I wish the rest of the world was that way. (You can go ahead and say watching that Advert is the price you pay, but you can't argue that - that price is affordable by ANYONE!)
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I love this story I would have been so pumped to have seen that. You were a lord.

I had that experience you describe of only seeing certain games randomly, round about 89-90ish I think. 'Sin Star'. I only saw it one arcade on a trip, once, where I played it for 8 hours, it just blew me away. I spent years after that asking around, could never find it again, or anyone who had ever played it.

Another thing that I carry with me from that time is just how mind melting Defender was when it showed up. That game will always be the high water mark for me. I remember just staring at the controls for so long with my friends, just terrified. I remember the day first hearing that someone we knew had actually played it. We didn't believe it, we didn't think it was actually possible. But then of course it became THE game.

Hitting the arcade with $10 in quarters was just like, I can die now thank you very much
Can someone give me a TL;DR on what Pharo is? It's website is infuriatingly vague. It seems to be a visual programming environment based on a language related to Smalltalk? In which case, it's similar to Scratch, and in which case what's the point of porting Scratch to it?

Edit: ah, the old Pharo website (accessible through the link at the top), puts front an center "Pharo is a clean, innovative, open-source Smalltalk-inspired environment". OK then. Good job on redesign that loses primary information. /rant
And I thought I had forgotten it.
Would a good drop in replacement here be something like hashing the two strings to the same length and using `hmac.compare_digest` ?

https://docs.python.org/2/library/hmac.html#hmac.compare_dig...

Honestly, I don't know enough about timing attacks to be sure.
> What about quarks you say? Great idea! Or, it would be if quarks were stable enough to travel even the microscopic distances required.

Quarks are stable; the problem is that they're confined. Free quarks can't be observed; we can only observe bound quark states like protons or pions, which are much larger than electrons. (Actually, as best we can tell, even if we could observe free quarks, their masses would be quite a bit larger than the mass of the electron.)
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The problem would disappear if ISPs used metered pricing. Why do we have unlimited commercial broadband?
don't confuse math skills with arithmetic skills. maths teaches you to think and reason about what you've got. arithmetic is just a way to apply your reasoning.

unless of course you're taught to follow steps without thinking and use a calculator all the time so your working memory isn't trained enough to reason about more complex problems.
Thanks for elucidating - I work on sites with a different balance of users vs traffic and data (maybe more users but less data and not so spiky), so it's interesting to hear about your experience on that and why you'd go for app engine, which compared to self hosting can seem like an expensive option.
The title "2048 gestures" does not seem to describe this game very well.
"X isn't bad because it's natural" is dangerously close to a fallacious "appeal to nature". The sense in which it's true, of course, is that it might be unavoidable in the sense that the costs associated with an attempt to change it might be worse. Still, careful.
You're probably thinking of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinistar
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Please let me know when you guys figure this one out. I always wanted to know the best way to flawlessly communicate with friends while drunk.