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This, unfortunately, is largely due to legislative policies you likely can't get around. Due to the "omg, terrorists and money laundering and things!" scare, banks are required to get massive amounts of documentation now to open an account.

While it might be possible to circumvent those laws, by creating a business that holds money in trust, working solely in cash (if you attempt to offer debit cards you likely are going to be treated as a bank by the feds), you have to not only get the poor to trust you (and they have no reason to, especially once there starts being -any- sort of consumer complaint, regardless of its being your fault or not), but you also have an insurance nightmare; you're working in cash, without FDIC protection.

And the margins would be thin; you'd be providing a service greater than those payday lenders you're trying to replace, while charging less, and from the poorest, most transient of clientele. Seems like a lot of risk, both as a business and from the government, for very little chance of reward. It's a good idea, but your best shot at success would be to try and run it as a charity so as to at least have a chance at getting lawmaker support.
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I feel like problems with known solutions that are blocked by political intransigence are perfect for startups.
I agree wholeheartedly. 4chan is a menace that directly leads to mass murder and GamerGate.

Just look at these mass murderers in training over at /ck/: https://boards.4chan.org/ck/

Absolutely horrific. Every post over there is a little piece of an inevitable hate crime. The safety of women is too important to let them get away.

Apologies for being blunt and sardonic, but seriously? Your preconceptions of 4chan are so horribly skewed and your saying that the UC Barbara shooter was a 4chan reader is an incredibly stupid justification. I'm sure Facebook radicalizes people every day. Ban Facebook?
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I was wondering the same thing myself. The article made it seem like they just walk to a car, hit a few buttons on a magic box, their fob is now tied to the car, and the car door opens. There's got to be more to it than that.

I can see copying the key if you have the original fob, but then you have the original fob so why bother? Maybe people are doing the simple credit card swipe bit that nefarious retail people have been doing for a while now? I suppose we should stop handing over fobs to valet parking?

If it is as simple as the key being tied to the VIN then we can all just put electrical tape on our car's VIN. I have plenty to spare if someone wants some, I only used a small bit from a new roll to cover the front-facing camera on my laptop.
Yes, and I also nerd out on the design of online discussion forums. So watching this discussion trip over a misfeature and nearly fall into the darknet was sad, and sad again.
Have you taken a look at Blossom as well? A few friends were telling me they have a killer Github integration.
It's too bad it was flagkilled, because it is an interesting project.
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> We need better safeguards within the regulatory framework to make sure this equipment does not fall into unlawful hands and, if it does, that the law provides severe penalties to act as an effective deterrent.

That's "solution" is moronic and lazy.

Instead of changing the car's security systems so they're actually secure, you want to make the security obscure by making key-recoders illegal to even own?

Makes me wonder if this is even really about the thefts or the car manufacturers using the thefts as an excuse to push their competitors out of the market using this new proposed law. If authorised dealerships are the only people who can legally re-code cars/keys then they've just assured themselves a huge business boost.

Plus this law will be ineffective. There is already a law against owning tools designed to break into vehicles ("tools of the trade" laws). But they're largely ineffective at stopping vehicle crime.

Instead they should make the technology entirely transparent and hire some damn cryptographers to design their systems. Double public-key cryptography (e.g. one private key in the car and key-fob respectively) make doing this securely absolutely possible.

Set up an industry group who stores the car's private keys and allows any authorised shop to request them and update them. Store an audit log. If a car gets stolen pull the log and see who requested the private key, then send the bobbies around to sort 'em out.
Citing the Atlantic article from 2 years ago while ignoring the results of this new study is disingenuous at best. Up to last week I also thought that the number of illegal voters was negligible, but after looking at this study and establishing the quality of the CCES dataset on which it is based, I have to revise that opinion. Ignoring data that you don't like is fundamentally self-defeating.

More than 14 percent of non-citizens in both the 2008 and 2010 samples indicated that they were registered to vote. Furthermore, some of these non-citizens voted. Our best guess, based upon extrapolations from the portion of the sample with a verified vote, is that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent of non-citizens voted in 2010.

The number of non-citizens in the US is about 30 million - ~12m legal permanent residents, ~12 million who have immigrated illegally, and ~6m on various non-permanent visas. So you're looking at ~600k who voted illegally in 2010 and maybe ~1.7m who did so in 2008. That's a hell of a lot of people.

Now, I agree that overall this is less than the number of citizens who don't have ID, although I have serious doubts about the genuine political engagement or desire to vote of anyone who is entitled to a US ID and doesn't get one. So numerically it's less of an issue. But it's a problem because it corrupts the political process in 2 ways; it bring results into question, and it allows people who don't like a result to cast aspersions on it by appealing tot he general principle, even in places where the numbers don't support a claim of being swung by illegal voters.

It's also a problem for the people who vote illegally (who are likely to be less educated, as the article points out); voting illegally is treated as a major federal crime and can lead to permanent, no-appeal and no-expiration deportation, and even retroactive cancellation of US citizenship if a naturalized citizen is later discovered to have voted illegally, with no statute of limitations as far as I can recall.
Try loading two 24mb 8 bit JPEG files into Polarr and Lightroom. Then try adjust knobs such as exposure and temperature. The rendition in Polarr is apparently faster due to its use of downsampling on the fly but still it uses fully sampled images after the user stops the interaction. I believe Lightroom is doing downsampling in one way or the other.
A5/3 (Kasumi) is near-on identical to the cyphers used in 3G connections, but you're right, this is the 2G only implementation; so yes, this only affects (applies to) 2G/EDGE/GSM.

I'm absolutely bloody agog that commercial first-world operators have taken until the end of 2014 to actually support this -I think it was ratified into the specification around 2001 if not earlier.

Also, for all you tinfoil wearers out there, you might like the fact that the original specification for A5/3 was altered to make it more hardware friendly. In 2010 it was realized that this actually made it extremely easy [1] to recover the session key (if not in real time) [2].

[1] core2due in a couple of hours easy, see the abstract [2].
[2] http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/013
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Can't speak for all vehicles, but mine ('10 CTS) has a procedure for programming a new RF fob if you don't have any working fobs to start from. It takes about 1/2 an hour and requires you to put the new fob in a special slot on the center console. It also requires you to activate the ignition switch on and off at some defined interval. I think the idea is that if they make it take a long time it reduces the chances of someone being able to sit there and not look suspicious.
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Not really. "A runny nose, a fever, body aches" "What are symptoms of flu the with 75% accuracy?"

That's dumbed down of course. It's probably more like "This much of this enzyme concentration in blood, that thing in urine"
"What is a 17% chance of developing some condition in the next 5 years?"
I'd forgotten about that. Are they actually providing an account though? I thought they were just storing a card on file, the way Amazon does. Is it because they're using ACH?
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Using Safari 8 on Yosemite.

Clicking on the curve points doesn't do anything. I just retried it thinking maybe I had done something wrong, but still no love.

Re: correction profiles, I'm not sure. Darktable has some, though not as many as Lightroom, so there must be some public source for some of them. This is actually a pretty big deal (for me at least). I'm not a photographer, but I publish a digital/ipad magazine and do most of the retouching work.

http://www.darktable.org

(Not a fan of darktable, but they do some things pretty well).
yes, but there might be some interest in revisiting the past to help guide our actions in the future.

Here in France the same principle prevailed: "better an ex-collaborator than a communist", with the difference that they were starving for managers (and it didn't go well for the resistants). So they didn't try an in-depth cleaning of the country which led to great disasters during the decolonization wars (tortures, mass executions, etc.)

They were quicker to shave the hair of women who slept with a german soldier than to hang a prefet who sent 1500 jews in a train and became Paris' police chief.
This is why I hate these articles, we get people like you that call insults "weapons". They aren't, nobody get's physically damaged by an insult.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon this is what the word weapon means

The only way to stop online trolling is by educating people to ignore stuff on the internet. If some anonymous nobody starts saying weird stuff to you, ignore them. If they threaten you, call the police and ignore them. It's that simple.

edit: changed weapon to comment
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This one does, but the ones like huboard and waffle.io use the API.
My sentiments are: (1) love what they're doing and the path they're trailblazing (2) unsure how replicable it is for other companies (3) hoping for more companies/founders that leverage their initial success (combination of luck and skill) to further push the envelope on what is accepted and possible in this little corner of the world if ours.

The best leverage is to not need the financing, and one you get to that point, all sorts of possibilities open up. Great to see a wildly successful company show us what's possible if you have leverage.
I don't think the parent is levying any judgment about whether they were right or wrong. I think they are pointing out that any reasonable person working in a spy agency at the time would be doing the same thing. Or, to put it differently: regardless of your ideology in the present, if you instead happened to work for a US spy agency during the Cold War, you might have made the same decisions, because

> The pragmatism of the present rarely considers the lofty disapproval of the future

I don't know the parent's true intentions, but I read this less as approval of their actions and more as a mournful observation about how few choices any of us really have.
Thank you very much for the throughout explanation. I always assumed there was an easy way to determine if someone is a citizen or not, but clearly that's not the case. It does make the whole voting issue a lot more complicated, had no idea it was as such.
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Without actually numbers this is a really hard thing to say. For example, arguably all the above is true of most intelligence assets- so we need a baseline to compare their performance with. But if one or two of these assets really payed of in a big way, it might have all been worth it. All an all I am saying the above quote from the article is a as subjective of an assessment as they come. In intelligence both quantity and quality can matter. Maybe 50 mediocre assets are valuable for gaining coverage, maybe 1/50 suburb asset is worth the risk, etc. I think we would need to hear the opinion of the men who operated these assets to know if it was worth it.
HTTPS solves these problems too.
> Aren't these comments themselves probably unauthorized disclosures to the news media?

Offically, yes. In practice, no. My understanding is that government orgs need some amount of non-official contact with journalists in order to get information out to the public. That is partly so they can make favorable information disclosures without it seeming official.

One could view the comment you quoted as an attempt to slightly improve the image of the Justice Dept and intelligence community without risking those entities appearing to be "soft on crime" (which is what would likely happen if they issued an official statment).
A flex-box container is pretty different than a table.

Flex-boxes have a major axis whereas tables are just rows and columns, as one specific difference.
Dev #2 here thanks for the compliment. Where are you? Maybe we should expand to your area. :)
Well - both, kind of :)

Take a look at this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/omervk/scala-for-c-developers

It draws some parallels between C# and Scala.
Paying directly changes the relationship significantly - a business is generally going to pay attention to their customers that produce their revenue than the "free" accounts that are the merely the product being sold to advertisers.

The Onion was right[1]. In the rush to sell out their "users" to to whomever is willing to pay, a lot of people seem to have come to believe that advertising is the only way to the internet can work.

The internet enabled many new ways of publishing due it removing most of the per-transaction costs. I suspect we haven't even seen most of these methods. While "Kickstarter" style funding and Wikipedia's "public television style" requests for donations, while interesting experiments, are only the first generation of what is enabled by the internet.

Unfortunately, untested and unproven (by somebody else) ideas do imply some amount of risk, which scares a lot of people back into the traditional method where the advertisers get to paint over everything.

edit: forgot URL

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8c_m6U1f9o
Thank you for this valuable background. So as I understand, Bill Gates' deposition is legally correct but so terribly unpopular that it's the wrong thing to do, am I right?

Besides, what was the outcome of the trial? If I understand:

- It started in May 1998,

- In April 2000, it was judged that Microsoft acted consistently in an anti-competitive wat,

- In June 2000, judge Jackson orders the break-up of Microsoft into two companies. It was reverted in September 2001, presumably because it doesn't make sense anymore.

- In November 1998, Microsoft is ordered to stop selling products which contain an incompatible version of Java. Sun wins this ruling.

- In 1997, Microsoft is ordered not to require OEMs to ship IE with Windows.

It looks to me that all those interviews have led to very little outcomes. Any expert's opinion on this?

http://archive.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2002/11/35212
> This requires the canals not to be connected to open water. In anticipation of heavy rainfall you would pump water out of the canals, into open water (sea).

Not necessarily. The South Florida Water Management District canals ultimately drain directly into either the ocean or the Everglades. The canal network has a series of flood locks and pumps, though, which can be used to manipulate water levels and force water to flow faster or slower than it would naturally.

Municipal drainage along the coast in southern Florida is also connected directly to the ocean. In that case as well the drainage system is augmented by high-capacity pumps to force the water out of the system and into the ocean. The municipal green spaces act as the buffers if the pumps cannot keep up with the rainfall.
The complexity is reduced if we only require residency to vote. We can do it any way we want after all; and that's a defensible rule. After all, we once had a revolution over "no taxation without representation" and voting rules are all about denying representation.
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In my mind, titles are indeed the wrong place to start.

Early on, we were pretty structureless — it was the best way to get things done. But as we grew, we found that lack of structure started to get in the way — if everyone feels equally responsible for everything, then either no one or everyone jumps to solve any given problem. So we started specializing, and structures started to emerge or were designed to help support the amazing people we were hiring. I specialized in a lot of the things mentioned in the post.

A great piece of advice I've gotten about organizational change is to make it in two cases: either to formalize what already exists, or to solve a recognized problem that's causing active pain. My becoming CTO was very much the former (putting a word to what was already happening). Hiring in a VP Engineering, in contrast, was the latter.

Titles are one way of quickly summing up a particular specialization, and there are many ways of going wrong with them. But I'm just using them as a convenient handle here: the piece isn't about "someone slapped a CTO label on you, now what?", but instead something more like "you want to be a senior individual contributor as your company grows, how do you stay connected and make a big impact?".
Wow that's some strong assumption that you got there. If you believe you can stop that using censorship, you can't be more wrong. If they wan't to do that, they will simply find somewhere else, and then somewhere else, and somewhere else. Hollywood invested ton of money in censoring content and have you seen what they were able to do? Absolutely nothing. Government invested tons of money in stopping drugs dealer, again with not too much result.

The only way we can do anything is using education. It's not completely effective, but it's the only way that can actually do something. We teach people to respect other people (not only women, everyone), we teach people to react against bullying, together, as a group, and we provide support and ways to deal with to victims.

We can't stop every perpetrators but we can at least be strong together.
Google Play Music is specifically not on that list, which makes me terribly sad, Google Play Music All Access is the best deal in streaming right now. Speculation is that it didn't make the list because Google refused to turn off HTTPS on Google Play Music for T-Mobile's packet scanning jobs.
~1.5TB

Like the other user said, it is limited by speed + there is a cap of amount you can backup per day
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Yep. Agree completely. Not acceptable. It's like getting the IRS to go after your political opponents.
Looks like even this much traffic was enough to take it down, so maybe it's just as well.
> I suppose we should stop handing over fobs to valet parking?

I thought many (but presumably not all) cars came with "valet keys", just for that reason. I am not sure how often they are used, though.
Is the Apple Pay pseudo-card number constant for each device/merchant? I wondered if it changed on a regular basis or per transaction (sort of like one time use card numbers).

I don't blame Walmart for wanting an extra 2% profit, I object to having things shoved down my throat. Apple actually improves CCs for the first time in decades and MCX is trying to push a system with less privacy, protections (direct ACH access? Never), and no actual benefit to me.

Everything they want to do (for me) they can do with the little barcode loyalty cards or their own app and let me use Apple Pay.

Instead they play cartel.
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Ah interesting. I'm running on Cloudflare's free SSL tier (have been very curious to see how well it performs). What browser are you on?
I'm waiting for the day when we have an article titled "Driver-assisting cars targeted by hackers". Primary reason why even if I could afford a Tesla S that I wouldn't buy one. If my car has any sort of control over my acceleration or steering (excluding tire-specific traction control functionality) then that car had better not have any sort of internet connection. Tesla has the ability to update over the air... that is kind of terrifying.
Zenhub uses the API, they just patch a few new things into Github's web pages. It doesn't seem that fragile to me.
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My point (such as it was :-)) is that, for me, the connecting on the web thing doesn't much change the fact that most of what you're doing is just measuring the number of steps you take with varying degrees of accuracy. I can already do that with a pedometer or, under most circumstances, more accurately with a GPS. That said, I appreciate that a lot of folks find that they get a lot of incremental value out of the web-connected part whether for gamification or other reasons. And, hey, whatever encourages exercise and activity. I'm just not especially wired for that type of incentive.
I once tried implementing the classical Delaunay triangulation algorithm from scratch and got close to a good solution, but never could iron out some major bugs. I think of it as a testament to the difficulty of algorithms and computational geometry.
They really did refund my early termination fee with Verizon, and it only took about a month. I was expecting the worst (as is the norm in the world of rebates) and was pleasantly surprised.

The slam dunk for me is the JUMP (Just Upgrade My Phone) program which allows you to upgrade phones much more frequently and easily. Doesn't save much money, but I am tickled knowing that I will get new phones much more frequently now.
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After reading enough of these unchallenged self-serving not-responsible-for-deliberate-lies voice-of-pretend-authority that's-not-piss-in-your-ear-it's-rain official-unofficial off-the-record comments, one concludes that they never have an ounce of truth to them, so the parties that theoretically would care about unauthorized disclosures are right to ignore them completely.

[EDIT] Wow, there must be a bunch of "journalists" on HN! Never mind me, just go back to parroting exactly what TPTB tell you, but not for attribution, so that none of the lies you tell on their behalf can be challenged.
I think one of the hardest parts about being an early stage CTO, particularly a founding CTO-by-default, is delegating away your codebase to potentially smarter engineers than yourself while still remaining a highly relevant team member. Not just relevant, but justifiably executive level (which, IMO, writing code is not).

This is an identity crises that deserves more coverage, I think. It is certainly not something the CEO faces in a typical tech startup. The CEO can delegate all day every day. In fact that's really a CEO's end game. The CTO, on the other hand, is expected to be superman.
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