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No pinger will save lost cargo around Cornwall - they've been assiduous scavengers down there for centuries...

But I guess it's just cheaper for all concerned to write off the lost goods and file an insurance claim. As they say: worse things happen at sea.
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A refrigerator full of bodies is a morgue.

I don't think I'd care to work at a morgue.
The notion that there is an ideal form of moneymaking for each person is a piece of self-help dogma, not an evidenced fact. To the best of my knowledge and experience, there's no viable job or business that would sustainably make me happy. There is, however, a very clear life that makes me happy. I know from experience. I want to become financially independent so I can live that life for good -- or any other life if I so choice.
Ask HN: Transitioning from windows to mac, good finder alternatives?
I been a windows user since start, but now that I have to shift to mac to make iOS apps, it is turning out to be a big pain. And of all the things I find "finder" to be the least usable app. Any good alternatives to finder? and any other suggestions for a mac noob? Things I miss the most:- notepad++(ST2 seems nice),strokeit, Windows explorer.
Any suggestions, links, or research on how TDA or compressed sensing can be used to make sense of spatiotemporal datasets (gridded climatology time series data, change/anomaly detection in time-lapsed satellite imagery etc.)?
I expected the 'why?' page to explain how (or by who) they are funded/how they make money. I've never heard of these guys before and until they explain that, I have no reason to trust them more than other non-ISP DNS provider...
Max article seems spot on. The blame is on Russian brand - which is hijacked by current Russia power structure, not on the Russian people per se, even though they share the responsibility for that kind of government. Cliches here, unfortunately, are rooted in realities - it's sad, but compare Russia with a failed state is probably not too much of an exaggeration. The fact that US has its own corruption does little justification to - much bigger, in my opinion - problems in Russia.
And if we are going back to the times of Polish annexation we can remember Polish people robbing Russia, burning Moscow, trying to put Polish dude on the throne and best part - exploitation of Ukrainians :). And yes, Poland is also known for imperial ambitions. Generally European history is full of wars and mutual blame. Take UK for example - conquered by French and ruled by German dynasty.

So once again, please, stop blaming Russia, go on with your life, build better country for you to live in.
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It's easy to understand the author's hidden sentiment that Russia is very ineffective state currently and depends too much on natural resources export and enforcement. But what bothers me most is that all of those former Russian immigrants sit in their comfortable chairs somewhere in Nebraska and yapping endlessly while not giving a sparrow's effort to research the actual situation and suggest anything to improve it. Instead they spread xenophobia and popularize knee-jerk reactions to events. I.e. they're just hatred-filled idiots who waste our time on reading them.
I think we'd enjoy watching some TV together for sure, but I don't know if you're the techy guy or the sales guy from this
Yeah, I always thought that seemed like a stupid idea (and have never done it). By taking out the cartridge, blowing on it, and putting it back in again, you are in effect:

- Taking it out

- Performing a pointless ritual

- Putting it back in

In other words, you are re-seating it, which really does help. So just skip the blowing on it step and get the same results without corroding anything.

If there is actually some detritus on the contacts, clean it with some air duster or isopropanol on a cotton bud.
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All that red-green color-coding for secure and non-secure calls is going to ruin them...

I was surprised by the colour coding as well, albeit more from a usability angle than colour-blindness:

What are "danger" red and "success" green meant to represent?

My natural inclination would be to have no background colour for insecure, and then [colour of choice] for secure.

It makes me wonder how ignorant on the matter I am, and whether red and green are some form of standard for secure/insecure notifications.
They definitely thought it was an Ukrainian military transport plane. I don't see how the distinction between enemy military transport plane and enemy fighter/bomber is of any importance here.
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People around the world are pretty disgusted by the photos & footage coming out of Israel/Palestine. You seem to be here looking for support. I don't think you'll get any, at all, other than from people for whom cognitive dissonance would preclude any other outcome. TL;DR: you're wasting your time.
Since they had the submarine, rocket and it's perfectly legal to launch in international waters, they talked about just putting the rocket in/on the submarine and be done with it.

... until someone pointed out that building a submarine with ballistic missiles and playing with it in Russia's back-yard probably is a very bad idea.
He was meant to say to be precise. He did not come up with the phrase, there was a whole "marketing" team around it. Which makes sense given the budget and the aim - winning the world image war.
You're lucky to be able to use such a recent standard in enterprise dev. Those shops tend to be pretty conservative in my experience. Where do you work?
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> I just finished reading a brief history of the cooperative movement in the UK.

I'd love to read this. Can you point me in the right direction?
Actually, he pulled a fast one there by using percentages.

Just because a meal is expensive doesn't mean it suddenly pays more of the rent. It's the profit margin while he's making a loss on other meal.

If all those diners had bought a $40 meal instead, the rent would not have magically decreased.
I'd like to see some refutation of the claims in this film (and not by the guy - physicist as I recall - in the film who just hand-waves say "well we know they went there and it can't possibly have been a hoax"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo5w0pm24ic
Located for what? It'd cost too much money to retrieve.
I haven't read a book, only read a whitepaper and followed news around Numenta. Another difference is that deep learning works in practice to acheive state of the arts results, beat benchmarks and drive huge production systems, while CLA/HTM is yet to demonstrate a good result on a public dataset. If you're good focus on convincing other scientisis you're good, not on impressing beginners. It looks like it is developed as a one-man show outside the traditional ML/statistics world. Maybe the ideas are interesting, and maybe they are good, but I don't understand why are they receiving so much publicity now.
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Anybody has a link to an project that usese this that actually has sound output?
Much of the real world is low-tech and works just fine under 80/20 rule (usually 99/1 or higher). Try asking any store manager for detailed data on shrinkage.

But as we're on the subject on containers, here's an interesting read from Wired on a radioactive container in Genoa port a couple of years ago: http://www.wired.com/2011/10/ff_radioactivecargo/all/1
It's confirmation bias at work. People often can't control their "reptilian brain" effectively. Having some superfluous idea they only find confirmations to it all around all worse if they are emotionally unstable at the moment.
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Be aware of phishing at airbnb
Having heard good opinions about Airbnb, I recommended it to my girlfriend looking for holiday accommodation in Spain. I personally have never used Airbnb before but having good experience both with 9flats and booking.com so far, I did not expect anything bad could actually happen. Airbnb claims they verify all of their hosts as the other similar websites, so booking a home should be as easy as possible.

After she had chosen a perfect home nearby Barcelona, she started having a conversation with the host. For users' convenience Airbnb provides a possibility to answer the messages sent from their website directly via email. It indeed makes the whole conversation easier (you do not need to log in every time you want to answer the message) however it increases the chance of fraud bookings.

The host was indeed sending the answers via Airbnb until he sent last one including booking details (usual emails from airbnb are sent from express@airbnb.com, his email was express@e-airbnb.com). Provided URL was also redirecting e-airbnb.com instead of airbnb.com. The website was looking exactly as airbnb does and included all booking and payment details. All the other links available on this fraud website were redirecting to real airbnb website.

Unfortunately, she has done the payment via Moneygramm (as it was described in the payment details) and since then there has been no contact with the host.

Airbnb has been also informed about this issue. As they guarantee hosts' verification I would expect them to get more interested in this case. Sadly, it took them 2 days to apologise and it seems like they do not take any responsibility for their hosts ....

Hopefully, thanks to this post at least one person will save his money while booking on airbnb. We have lost almost 2k euro ...
> Apple is not paying me to write bug reports, and they'll surely get discovered by others

So you are happy to write a long comment here in exchange for karma, and are excited to blog later in exchange for eyeballs, but won't submit radars to improve your tools because Apple isn't paying you?
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That's what we're doing. But Russia again started changing borders of our neighbor. This is scary stuff.
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It can be a conspiracy by Ukraine's government (with some possible help from some foreign intelligence advisors) to discredit pro-Russian faction. Or idiots in pro-Russian faction that didn't confirm or were mislead about the target (like someone falsely hinting them about the plane) before shooting it down. I wonder why all those people state it as if they know the truth already. If it is not propaganda at work then I don't know what is.
If you operate AA unit without knowledge how to detect civilian planes its a bit more then mistake.
I use http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ for managing windows, not free, but gets out of the way and has great shortcuts as default :)
Living in UK I can say that something is terribly wrong with freedom of speech and objectivity of mass media - Russian media reports all possible scenarios, blames Putin, Ukraine, rebels, but UK press is all focused on blaming Russia.
Where's the alternative? UK media is free to blame Russia?
Remember that Russian gay propaganda ban? So much noise, and at the same time Saudi Arabia executes gay people and there's no USA/UK campaign against it.
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Thank you for writing this. Can you say more about the system you found, this binding strategy for "strategies for happiness"?

My judgements being wrong used to be a source of frustration for me too. Now I take them as a given. Being wrong is part of the process.

The biggest problem I have now is forgetting what strategy I had decided to follow. Mostly because there are too many things to decice. The process of me deciding doesn't ingrain each decision in me hard enough.

How do you deal with that?
Ukraine is a failed state otherwise there shouldn't be incentive to start cruel and poorly planned revolt like Euromaidan in the first place.
I liked that proposal... I think that probably if not for the Snowden-assisted concerns that proposal would have prevailed. The reduction of pre-image security to 128 bits would be a step backwards compared to sha256, but I think no one was seriously arguing for security levels >256 bit— even assuming QC 256 bits should be adequate against all generic attacks.

But once tampering was seriously raised as a concern, doing something as close to the original proposal as possible was much more attractive than other options.
So do you think any war is a playground where they decide the outcome with a chess game?
> lack of motive

It was most likely a mistake.

> There is a lack of identity (if it were the Separatists, are they really controlled by Putin to that degree?)

Top members of the rebels group, including the leader, are Russian citizens and former members of the FSB.

http://20committee.com/2014/07/19/donetsk-rebels-and-russian...

> The murder weapon happens to also be in the hand of the Ukrainian army (19 systems, 3 of them stationed in the range of the crash site) [2]

If the Ukrainians were responsible, why are the rebels trying to cover up all the traces and why are they interfering with the international investigation? (Also, the source you quote is from Russian media, which are inherently biased, much more so than the multiple other sources whose evidence points towards Russia-backed rebels)
How do you know what "they" thought?
And even that is only an advantage if America then decides to attack. That's just one thing you fail to include in the calculations there.

> That's what I call complete dominance and control.

You have a complete lack of imagination and perspective. Let me help you with some history :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_invasions

To take out a few examples of complete dominance and control :

religious and ethnic cleansings over large areas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughal_Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquests

eliminating opponents and stealing everything:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punic_Wars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BD_Dynasty

or how about this, the ottoman side famous for imposing a "child tax" (not kidding):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman%E2%80%93Habsburg_wars

Of course that sort of thing will only happen if America loses. The truth is that during the worst part of slavery in the US, the US treated it's slaves better than most empires after the Roman Empire treated their own citizens. Problem is, America hasn't really lost any war for almost 2 generations now, we don't really hear from the places where domination exists (e.g. Sudan, Mali, southernmost Algeria) and people are starting to seriously lack imagination the way you do.

Dominance and control, historically, is NOT about spreading democracy and/or getting favorable resource deals. It is about complete dominance and control : things like the ability to commit ethnic cleansings ongoing for centuries, having the entire enemy population working as slaves, imposing ethnic/religious taxes of 90%+, "death or islam", ...

Laser weapons are useless for these purposes.
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Maybe 無 (mu) [0], which is something philosophically in between yes and no.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)#.22Unasking.22_t...
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Ungated version: https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi....

Evidence points to keep at it
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> Rodney Durham stopped working in 1991
> declared bankruptcy and lives on Social Security.
> [borrowed] $15,197 to buy a used Mitsubishi sedan.
> topped making his loan payments ... only five months after buying
> "I just can’t get around without my car," he said.

Far be it from me to mention it, but how did Rodney think it was going to work ?
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NATO is expanding and Russians were not happy about that way before current situation. Being Crimean myself I would say that so much feared 'annexation' was forced on to Russia by Crimean local establishment. Not that Russia was against it though. As a matter of fact - throughout 23 of the Ukrainian independence it was never less than 65% of Crimeans that were ready to join Russia.

Ukrainian crisis is the result of building nationalistic state in the country with two different cultures, frequently incompatible. And also grave incompetence of the Ukrainian government leading to escalation of the conflict.

Poland and Baltic states - these countries are outright hostile toward Russia, yes, it has historical reasons. But now it's easier to trade and use economic power than to conquer and control territory. These countries are part of EU, and Russia will never - until forced - engage in any military confrontation with them.
I wish the images would be self-explanatory without the chapter.
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I'm inclined to think that there is some threshold below which that function is constant. "Dust in eye" is definitely below this threshold.
> It clearly demonstrates that monopolies cannot exist without the threat of force, which isn't profitable to do in a free market, where you cannot force people to pay to sustain that force indefinitely.

Private protection agencies do have the threat of force though, so they can force people to pay to sustain them. And clearly it must be sustainable, because governments exist.

Or do you think there some magical property of things called "governments" which protects them from the market forces you claim something called a "private protection agency" would be subject to? In what way are they different?

> Did somebody build that machine?

For now. My point is that as capital overtakes labour as the primary factor in production, using jobs as a means of wealth distribution will no longer be effective.

> Doesn't that situation incentivize people to learn more sophisticated skills?

And how will they learn those skills if they have no money?

>Please re-read it and I'd really like to hear your response to that.

You threw out some arbitrary numbers with no real basis. Why does it take 90% of society to harm the minority in a free market but only 70% in state?

The actual difference is that in a democratic state, you need a majority of people to harm a minority. Whereas in a free market, you need a majority of capital. If capital is evenly distributed, then they will be roughly even, but if there is massive inequality, then genocide could easily be committed in a free market with support of only 1% of society.

>So, if the government approved me robbing you directly, you'd be okay with it too?

Why would they come to such a decision? Why would society at large care about you and me in particular? If you mean as part of some wider social program, and I happen to have more wealth than you, then I would be happy to share it.

>That's actually not true. In my society there are friends and relatives. Individuals have responsibility to help others, not some abstract government or society.

Right, and what if they don't have any money to spare either? Or simply don't want to help me? I still die.
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It really depends, for example out-of-season local tomatoes grown in a greenhouse in norther Europe are much more energy-unefficient than shipping them from Morocco.

On the other hand, I remember buying live lobsters between $5 and $8 a pound in a Boston grocery store. According to this article that would be a very small markup (and maybe sometimes lobsters were a loss leader).
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This is actually the only compelling argument in favor of the landing being a hoax. Too much progress too fast with a bit too much disregard to astronauts' lives.
From the paper:

> "Of course, users can encrypt data they outsource to the cloud, but
this alone is not sufficient to achieve privacy protection, because the
data access patterns that users exhibit can reveal information about the
content of their data (e.g., see [4, 14]). Therefore, there has been
considerable amount of recent research on algorithms for data-oblivious
algorithms and storage, which hide data access patterns for cloud-based
network data management solutions (e.g., see [9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18, 21,
22, 23, 25, 26])."

Even when data is encrypted, you still need to worry about data access
patterns leaking information about the encrypted data. The goal of
data-oblivious storage is to scramble arrangement to prevent this kind
of access pattern side channel attack.
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It seems I missed that plus I submitted a link without the www. in front (which was copied from a tweet).

Perhaps the team should update whatever regexp they use to ignore any www. in submission comparisons.
This is quite an unfair comparison.

First of, Microsoft does support the development of .NET and associated components. It is definitely not an active support relationship, but MS answers the questions Mono developers have and has provided some help for the Moonlight project. Furthermore, it seems Microsoft is making an effort to make ASP.NET on Linux more attractive.

Having said that, it doesn't even matter what Microsoft does with .NET. If Swift stays 'closed' as it is, you can use it to develop Mac and iOS applications. If .NET stays 'closed' as it is, you can use your .NET experience to develop Windows desktop applications, 'Windows Store' applications, web applications and services, client side web programming, Windows Phone apps, apps for iOS and Android with Xamarin, Linux desktop applications, and even operating system development or protocol verification if you're an adventurous academic. All of these things are being done right now by people, and good tools exist for those things. I realize that people on HN don't like Microsoft's lock-in or tools, but experience with .NET does give you access to a very diverse set of areas to program in.

Now I'm quite convinced that Apple will open source Swift (they appear to have informally confirmed they'll be doing exactly that [1]). And then its basis on LLVM will make sure that it can be used in other places as well. But I doubt Swift's uptake outside of Apple apps will be bigger than Objective-C's simply because, unlike Microsoft, Apple won't use or promote Swift anywhere for anything else than Apple apps.

The point is that 'openness' of a language itself does not matter much for the value to learn it. It depends on how much you can do with the language. Even if you assume "You can never use Swift outside of Apple's context" and "You can never use .NET outside of Microsoft's context" are both true (which they are not), Microsoft's context for .NET is much broader than Apple's is for Swift.

[1]: https://twitter.com/mxweas/status/474581160454942721

[2]: Of course one can argue that developing Mac+iOS applications itself presents more value than all of the .NET things I mentioned combined. But that was not the point of this discussion.