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Michael Chrighton was a well-known climate crank.

What is this article even doing here?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Criticism_of_C...

https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&q=michael+crichton+cl...
I spotted this earlier this week when ordering a t-shirt through TeeSpring using PayPal. I authorized a payment of 22.95 USD. Here’s a screenshot from the payment confirmation email I received: http://i.imgur.com/BGjKcsW.png The math doesn’t quite add up.
"OK, raise your hand if the reason you don't go to movies is because the screens aren't big and bright enough."

I'm probably in the minority, but I actually don't go to the cinema if I know the film is being shown in a small auditorium. It doesn't matter what the type of film is, I want to see it on a medium or large screen. I hate walking into an auditorium only to find a tiny screen - it ruins the whole experience for me. You also pay the same ticket price as the cinemagoers watching a different film in a much larger auditorium (with bigger screen).

I realise that cinemas can't fill their larger auditoriums with certain films, but some of the smaller auditoriums I've sat in have screens not much bigger than what a home projector will give you. Unfortunately, a lot of indpendent cinemas have some of the smallest screens I've seen. I'd rather wait for the DVD than pay for a paltry screen experience.

So yes, for me at least, a bigger screen, and a brighter picture does influence whether or not I would go to the cinema.
> We've had crypto for a while and yet nobody encrypts their email by default (or even shares keys). We've had the option to self-host for a long time but few people do. Why? IMHO it's because doing any of these things means you have to become a sysadmin to some degree. Very few people will put up with that for long.

It's not only that. Previously, encrypting e-mail brought a bigger benefit (at relatively high cost in expertise, maintenance) than it does today, because we no longer own our machines the way we used to. PCs are now permanently connected to the 'net, OS vendors can install anything they like whenever they want, Smartphones come without administrative privileges for the owner even.

What use is encrypted e-mail when various unknown corporate / government entities "own" your device and can work around e-mail encryption easily (by installing a keylogger, grabbing your private key etc.)?

We need to get ownership of our devices back before thinking about crypto too much.
The question I have is who are this breed of 'climate scientists?' Who becomes a climate scientist? Why did they choose climate scientist and not some other science? What was their work before global warming became a hot topic? Do they do any work that has been useful, outside backing up the AGW hypothesis? When did they learn to build computer models? Have their computer modelling skills proved useful in any other areas? What do other scientists think of climate science? Is climate science their main thing or are they more generalist scientists who happen to be publishing climate research? And how much of the published research is actually meta-publishing, based either on data collected elsewhere or conclusions generated elsewhere?
The biggest barrier to legalizing drugs are the millions of jobs that are created for, solely exist for, and are wholly dedicated to: fighting drugs, drug related crimes, and dealing with drug offenders (police, private prisons, etc).

And the 100s of billions (if not several trillion) of dollars that get consumed every year by that industry.

They will fight tooth and nail to prevent any type of drug legalization.

We've already seen how powerful the private prison industry is and how much lobbying power they have.
Overview of the four main programming paradigms
Let say I'm not in the US, what are my options if I'm interested to subscribe? Will VPN work?
I think we all understand these points, however people such as the OP seem to have their URL/title changed, even though it doesn't "violate" the guidelines, but just because some seem to think differently in the comments.

I can't really judge since I haven't noticed such changes, it's just what I take away from the discussions above.
Two thoughts:

1. Harvesting bioelectic generation ability would be neat

2. Possible vector for metabolic disorders?
The LastPass vulnerabilities affected only bookmarklets (used by less than 1% of LP users, according to LP) and OTPs (no estimates for use).

I've been using LP for over a year, didn't know either feature existed until the disclosure: I use it strictly for its main capability, encrypted and unique site passwords.
I was going to write this part in my original email but wanted to stick to the main concern about use cases. I do live 3-4 months a year in NYC and in my pre-war building, T-mobile has spotty coverage. If I travel to Connecticut, 90 minutes away, there are many spots en-route where I do not get a signal.
My set of tricks is more like: trace dependencies for work as it is done, put work on dirty list when dependency changes, redo work, + some tricks to optimize previous steps. It is really hard to interpret that as math, especially if the word "math" is to remain meaningful and useful. It is all math at some level, but so is everything.
"I can't speak for Firefox and Safari but I think it's safe to assume that Firefox"

Maybe one of these Firefoxes should say Chrome
Just because Automatic Updates is turned off doesnt mean they haven't been applied. If they are running a custom build of XP-SP2 they could easily deploy and install updates on their own, no? Id be interested to look at what's installed.
I purchased a JVC DLA-X35B and made my own screen. Watched it a lot for about a year and sold it when I moved. It ended up costing me about 8$ per hour of playback, but I was able to be in my own home and adjust the light/sound/experience to be exactly what I wanted.

If you have the space and some disposable income, you should consider it!
if this is available on some kind of rental plan, there is a huge opportunity....
He seems like a goofy old man, I was expecting a meaner, pissed off version.
Hamas won free and fair elections. Peace must come from negotiations with Hamas; it can't be predicated on their destruction.
> DNSSEC still relays on CAs.

No, DNSSEC has nothing to do with CAs. Each DNS authority defines its own keys used to sign its records.

> They were just renamed to "Trust Anchors".

You are thinking about DANE [1], which is what the a protocol on top of DNSSEC. Using DANE you authorize X.509 certificates and/or CAs for certain domains. This allows you to restrict your domain to a specific well-known CA (such as Verisign), but it also allows you to authorize your own CA or even a specific certificate directly. It even works per-service, so you do not need to use the same CA/certificates for all your services.

If you were suggesting that DANE does not solve the traditional CA issue you are wrong.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6698

> The trust anchor for .com is Verisign.

Err.. no? I don't even understand what are you trying to say here. The "com" domain does not seem to have any TLSA records...
Moxie Marlinspike created an alternative to the CA system called Convergence[1]. His DEFCON video[2] does a good job describing the problem and his proposed solution. There's a Firefox plugin for it, but Chrome has come out and said they will likely never support it[3].

[1] http://convergence.io/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDmj_xe7EIQ (you can skip the first 5 minutes; if you want to jump straight to his proposed solution, it's around 35 minutes in)

[3] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/08/google_chrome_reject...
I simply don't like the fact that someone can change a link that I submitted to something else. Moderators have the right to kill a story or ban a user for valid reasons, but changing a link to point to another completely different article is just being pedantic and definitely crosses the line. We might as well then just post topics, and let the mods choose the best story for that topic.
Respect the back button.

`history.pushState()`

Besides that, looks great guys!
Then again, Rib Pike probably doesn't work in eclipse.
The idea is that you can tailor the merge functions for the application problem domain, rather than grabbing an off-the-shelf distributed database with subtly different consistency semantics than the one you really need (e.g. Riak, Dynamo and Cassandra are all slightly different in how they reconcile, for very good reasons).

With Irmin, if your your application needs a distributed queue to coordinate workflow tasks, then you grab an MQueue datastructure that explains how it deals with multiple readers and writers, and you use that. If you instead need a distributed set with no strong ordering guarantees, then you can implement this as a series of pull/push/merge operations instead.

One interesting exercise we're doing at the moment is to build the equivalent of Okasaki's purely functional datastructures in Irmin. Since the module signatures of these datastructures are quite similar to their non-distributed counterparts, it should be possible to swap distributed/local datastructures depending on the deployment scenario of the application (with the local ones being much more efficient due to the lack of remote synchronization).

If a datastructure really can't merge something, then it can raise a conflict that will can ripple up to the user interface. The design aims to minimize this by letting the application specify a non-failing merge semantic where possible though.
U.S. Senator blasts Microsoft's H-1B push as it lays off 18,000 workers
Old, seriously? The guy is in his mid-forties and you make him sound like he lives in a retirement home.
The states are in direct contravention of Federal laws. This will have to be dealt with eventually but the Feds are in no hurry because it is a losing case for them.
Well, almost all of your arguments are true for MEMS based laser projectors from the late 90s only. Today's laser projectors are based on standard DLP, LCD or LCos projectors with the main difference of a laser light engine instead of xenon or uhp light bulbs. So, lets address your arguments one at a time.

>>There are some downsides though since you don't get the same viewing angle that you do with standard projection. The reflection off of the screen tends to bounce back almost as straight as it hit...

This isn't true at all. While Lasers do emit coherent light it doesn't cause laser to be reflected back straight reasonably more than standard light. The only issues with lasers is speckle which is caused by destructive and constructive interference of coherent light on rough surfaces. And as any projection surface is somewhat rough in respect to small wavelength, manufacturers have to take care of this issue by integrating laser over time inside the light engine. They do of course have trouble with green laser speckle due to the eyes higher sensitivity to green light but nevertheless they can reduce speckle by over 95 percent.

>>Laser is also nice because you don't have to deal with focus. The Focus is fixed.

This is also only true for MEMS based laser projectors from the 90s. Today's laser projectors are based on "standard" projection technology and therefore have changing focus over distance.

>>Where you do have issues with Lasers is color. Lasers are harder to get to match the Gamut, and harder still to manipulate to represent all the colors in 10 bit color, (10 bits x 4)
Lasers don't tend to burn out which is nice.

Image reproduction is still based on RGB. As long as you choose primaries that lie well outside the standard color spaces (DCI P3, BTU 709) you can always map colors to fit any colorspace inside this gamut. Colordepth is absolutely unaffected of the Laser itself. Only color derivation technology reduces bit depth. For example time sequential light engines like OSRAMs "Phaser" (phosphor laser) do have the same issues like one chip DLPs. You can not fit enough inter color segmentation inside one frame to get enough bit depth. 3 Chip DLPs with one laser engine per color have 10bit and even more color depth.

>>Laser projectors do have to be optimized for the size of the screen more than projection. With traditional projection the size of the pixel scales up. With Lasers the dot doesn't really get larger. This is fine if the projected dot is the right size, or some ratio of the right size...

You do not shoot the laser "point" directly at the screen as with MEMS based laser projectors. Today's laser projectors replace lamps by laser light engines. You still use DLPs or LCos to reproduce the image.
Depth-first search in APL
These things will work, they just won't be good for "store of value" like bitcoin. Supply of disk space, bandwidth etc keeps growing, but the demand for those resources grows as well. Hard to predict the ratio of supply to demand, and therefore the price, but I think they could work very well in the long term. Not as a universal payment currency, but rather as a token (with fluctuating price) for some particular type of service.

I see the future of "resource coins" as being efficient mechanisms for p2p resource distribution. Conventionally, a customer would use their credit card to pay some cloud hosting company. The conventional hosting company is a business which operates as a privately managed bureaucracy. A P2P coin operates as standard protocol acting as a meta-company, aka a DAC/DAO - Digital Autonomous Company/Organization.

In a conventional business, a private bureaucracy manages a resource uses it to provide a service (bandwidth, disk space, and CPU as managed by a hosting company). P2P coins replace that centrally-operated middle man with a decentralized algorithm and account database. Bitcoin is like a meta-company which operates a distributed ledger internet payments. Why stop at payments? If its efficient, we should *coin all the things.
Ask HN: What does traffic to example.com look like?
I couldn't find any kind of traffic report from searching.
This might seem simplistic, but couldn't this problem be solved with a "related" list?

It's been many moons since I've been to Digg, but it had a notification if you're submitting a post with a similar title/URL. While we're discussing it, it may not hurt to have a "previous discussion" list either.

Opinions, information other relevant factors can change over time, so it may not be so bad to revisit a topic.
In my case, an extra display is a huge help when I need to refer to a doc/spec/tutorial etc.
Generally I find that two monitors is useful so I can have a browser or android emulator open in one and the code open in another and easily switch between them... I'm guessing Linus doesn't do a lot of UI development so it doesn't really matter for him.
>> The trust anchor for .com is Verisign.

>Err.. no? I don't even understand what are you trying to say here. The "com" domain does not seem to have any TLSA records...

Verisign runs the "com." zone, so I guess they would have to admin any DNSSEC/DANE/TLSA stuff.
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Along those lines, the census agency says most STEM graduates do not work in STEM fields: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/07/10/cens...
I used to have two monitors but then I discovered Xmonad and lrealized that virtual desktops for me are much better than a second monitor. The biggest pkus is that i have the monitor right in front of me and don't have to turn my head to the side.
It sort of defeats the purpose of a centered modal dialog...
I've noticed that two monitors are helpful in web development. I typically have the browser on one monitor and the IDE on another.
I didn't down vote you but my initial reaction to your comment was can we please have a conversation related to development without dragging sex into it? I would guess that many had the same reaction.

Discrimination is an issue in Tech, its not the only issue or an issue which relates to every other issues it is an issue, singular.
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It's still roughly the same social niche though. And the Warhammer miniatures wargame may be semi-mainstream, but its RPG manifestation is much less popular and so only fitfully supported by GW.
Critiquing the methodology section is the best part of reading scientific papers. However, it soon becomes bittersweet as when you implement your own experiments, you soon become aware of how difficult it is to design a good experiment. That being said, if journalists read methodology sections (or anyone, really) then the world would be a much better (and less sensationalised) place.
Can you provide me with any proof? I am still not convinced why should I trust bitcoin.. but my karma is going down here.. pretty strange huh :-)
>And the 100s of billions (if not several trillion) of dollars that get consumed every year by that industry.

Not that it's a good reason against decriminalizing drug use, but you're right. And if they can't send millions of young men away for drugs, they'll find another reason to do so, and maintain that spending. Hacking, spying, piracy, perhaps?
I agree that mods changing submissions is a little like putting words in the original submitter's mouth, but if the practice is well known I don't think there's much harm in it.

Like I hinted at in the other thread, and as dang seems to confirm, it's an issue of purism vs pragmatism.
> I simply don't like the fact that someone can change a
> link that I submitted to something else

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_voting
The domain "example.com" is reserved
for examples.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6761#section-6.5
Be very interesting to see what Congress ends up doing with DC, which recently decriminalized marijuana and has full legalization on the ballot for November. I don't think they'll ignore it, so the question is will they simply undo it or prevent the ballots from being counted (which they have the unique ability to do in DC) or whether this will prompt an actual debate on the role of the federal government in drug policy.
To me this seems to be exactly what constraint programming is about. Think prolog: you define the relationships (edges in this computation graph), instantiate some values and then ask the solver to fill the rest.

Is there anything fundamentally different in your idea?
I used xmonad s.t. each screen had its own virtual desktop (until I got fed up of its slowness and Haskell's cabal package management).

At least in my case, my screens are usually very centered and I sit far back enough that I never turn my head. shrug
Is your purpose in drawing this distinction to claim that the secular tendencies of the population of Iran is an effective counterweight to the ambitions of its theocracy?
Just execute Floyd–Warshall algorithm for transitive closure :)
Especially Russia. They are not a minor player in the area as evidenced by the Syria conflict.
"At the scale of these networks". These are warehouse-scale data centers.
I'm willing to bet that has way more to do with the substantial body of people flagging down all the NSA posts than some mod conspiracy
Identifying backdoors, attack points, and surveillance mechanisms in iOS devices
Nothing would ever be changed for the better if people simply walked away from problems, rather than discussing them in an attempt to find a solution.
I also find having lots of stuff open distracting. One screen and virtual desktops so the browser, irc and other crap can be kept off the code view really helps me focus. Colour noise also distracts me, and browsers really are good at throwing a lot of it at you. When I'm coding, my display is effectively monochrome with dark grey terminals and lighter grey text with a warm reddish orange cast.

As far as coding goes, living in a monastery with a laggy internet connection, using a slow netbook with 11" screen was one of my most productive times.
Yes, the paper talks about having secondary arbiter that does watchdog pings, and if the primary dies, the secondary waits for the queues to flush then takes over, statelessly. It's a huge hole in the paper.
Moral Effects of Socialism
He uses Git IIRC. In fact, he invented Git.
That quote and those links are to a 2001 story just in case that wasn't obvious.
The poster has only this submission and his comment (on his own submission). This looks a lot like astroturfing...
Something still serves pages and responds to requests. I want to know what the logs look like (in general). I hoped the person who administers it was an HN user.
I was offered a 2nd monitor several times and refused because you put less strain on your neck when you look straight ahead. I imagine this could even be more of a problem with a walking desk. Apart from that, more incoming signals don't make you work better.
"Compared to Germany, recycling here is barely known, which took some getting used to. You can't get a proper sausage in this country,"

My German-o-meter has confirmed a German here :)

> A flight for me, and a couple hundred euros to transport a few of my most important belongings. Do not bring more than this. Definitely don't bring furniture. Do not bring bed sheets or anything that is sized to fit certain items of furniture, it will not fit.

Exactly this, and this is valida for short/long distance relocation. Don't bother bringing any "commodities" (furniture, TV, car - depends, etc)

Oh and really, the "Irish accent" (there's no such thing, it's a variety of accents) but go from very understandable to absolutely impossible

> As American, please consider that you will be made fun of by some, you will need to learn how to drive on the wrong side of the road and how to use a stick shift.

Correct. They maybe should learn how to stick shift before leaving, so it's only one thing to learn at a time
> As far as coding goes, living in a monastery with a laggy internet connection, using a slow netbook with 11" screen was one of my most productive times.

That's one of the most amazing things I have heard in a while.
Using process checkpointing is indeed one good way to implement fault tolerance. The Irmin style is more explicit -- the heap itself is tree structured, and the application uses it to checkpoint itself to disk/memory as a matter of course.

This ensures that only the minimal state required is stored (as opposed to the entire process heap), and also that state can be reconstructed intelligently to preserve sharing and special resources. For instance, file descriptors (if running in Unix mode) could be reified to a filename/offset and reopened, and memory mapped areas (such as the shared ring structures that Xen uses) could be re-granted from the hypervisor.
Nonesense.! I am sure there are lots of people who submit links for reasons other than karma and HN base discussions. Not everyone will appreciate the redirection of traffic from their researched and well written post. Not to mention the prestige of making it to the front page!
> I found being laughed at was a huge barrier to learning French when I lived in Montreal

Wow, can anyone explain the reasoning behind making fun of a language learner? I'm in Japan right now, and the reaction to me speaking my feeble attempt at Japanese here is more "OMG you can speak Japanese? That's amazing!"
The rules around titles are to always use the title from the article.

In general, that is the rule.

The cynic in me couldn't help but notice that an article with the original title "One of a Kind: What do you do if your child has a condition that is new to science?" has been on HN's front page for a day now with an alternate title.

For some reason, the same mods who removed "Feynman" as "click-bait" that is "not the title from the article" don't seem to have a problem sticking with the alternate title "Thanks, HN: You helped discover a disease and save lives" [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8050106].
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