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While the chronology of the books still leave literary misinterpretation in the bag, Matthew 1:20 explicitly states that the holy spirit impregnated Mary, so under most christian belief system's it's pretty damn clear she was a virgin. Historians, not so much.
Ask HN: When you don't understand a concept, what do you do?
Do you stop, go backwards and try to understand it before you move forward or you just move forward so that you can come back to it later?
This is for sitemap submission.

https://books.google.com/books?id=NQJaN_1i3xgC&pg=PT189&lpg=...
Disagree all you like. You are still, most likely, wrong.
Fair point. But the post I responded to was saying to just give up.

Tor may not be enough. To really be safe, use the precautions in http://pastebin.com/cRYvK4jb (this guy hacked finfisher and got away with it, so they know what they're doing.) Mostly whonix, truecrypt, and tor.

(Come to think of it, why hasn't that post been taken down? Is there nothing against pastebin's tos in there? They took down all the sony leaks.)

I would never go back and forth on the same page between tor and clearnet. I assumed that level of caution was obvious, especially to a fellow hacker (we're talking about vulnerability-noticers here, after all.)
I'd definitely try it once it's time to pick a name for my future child. But not sure, if there's enough market for it to make it sustainable... Looks cool though! Good luck!
The summary at the top seems to indicate that a team will have high impact if one guy does all the work and have a "team" unimportant work. So not quite what I was hoping to see.
Well, I'm not sure if JavaScript's date constructor has issues with accuracy, but I'm pretty sure you can get the timezone offset in minutes using the following:

(new Date()).getTimezoneOffset()

I'd assume it's returning the system time zone offset, and for me it's correct.
If you ever want to make a vulnerability researcher drool visibly, have a C programmer say, "that will normally never happen, making ${XXX} the safest no-brainpower-needed approach".
There's quite a bit of evidence that virginity only became a "thing" after lines traced paternally—i.e. a mother is pretty damn sure a kid is hers, but the father wants stronger guarantees because even in appearance there's a lot of room for cuckolding. So, given that some early germanic culture was matrilineal (e.g. the Suebi, attested by IIRC Suetonius), it's ALSO not surprising that the word for "virgin" is actually the closest approximation.
Yes it all concerns the shape of the distribution. I have not assumed any any sort of distribution by the way as I have no means of estimating it.

It may be possible in the future to estimate how well tuned a universe could be made for the appearance of intelligent life and also how large the surrounding non-tuned space could be. In the mean time we can only speculate :)
Agreed. This is probably the biggest upside to browsers providing localisation natively - it saves roundtrips or downloading large tables.
Wow, that redwood 100+ years investment sounds interesting. Do you have a link? I have to show that to my economist friend... or save it to win an argument some time from now :)
U.S. Slides Again as Denmark Tops Forbes' Best Countries for Business
edX meets certain definitions for Open that Coursera does not, in terms of licensing of content and software.
Doubt it. Since when is their fee a flat 50c btw? Afaik they're free now (beta) and going live next month at 0.5%.

And let's not forget, they have a presence in North-America, Western-Europe and Australia. Not even e.g. Japan. And hell, they're in beta in all of those countries except five.

But more importantly, they're not a remittance company. So I really doubt we'll see a remittance product from them anytime soon.

But who knows. It's a legitimate business venture. If you can process a payment in bitcoin and pay out in a local currency and do remittance that way, you can process a remittance 'payment', too. The problem isn't really the technical or business part though, it's that it brings up a lot of KYC/AML responsibilities that facilitating retail shopping doesn't. So unless you want to really build out a remittance product, you can't just do something like this 'on the side'. And Stripe is way too focused on payments to jump into remittance properly anytime soon.

Especially when there aren't any deep liquidity pools for bitcoin in Africa (i.e. a lack of exchanges). Phillipines, India, all of that could feasibly happen soon (not by Stripe, but other companies), as liquidity does exist (and they're big remittance corridors), but undercutting Bitpesa anytime soon is unlikely. Bitpesa itself is already hustling to make this work with a local presence and its a bit of a mystery to me who their liquidity provider is atm.
Maybe I'm explaining my confusion poorly.

I understand wanting people to call attention to mistakes, and wanting that call-out to be clear and loud. I understand accepting that feedback.

But if it were me, my step #1 would be "disclose this via FD or whatever dispersal method you feel is appropriate, and tack my-address@example.org onto the CC line. That way we make sure I get your feedback and can address it". The goal of getting the author involved as part of step 1 isn't to hide from mistakes, it's to make sure the author doesn't get left in the dark just because they miss a mailing list digest line.
Hi buddy, I definitely understand your problem and I am in the same situation you were 10 years ago. Early baldness definitely takes a toll on your self confidence. There are many bald smart and good looking people. Jason Statham was recently called the hottest man alive by some media outlet. But you and I are definitely not Jason, we have two options - either get a hair transplant, really heavy on the pocket so keep in that in mind or try to carry this baldness with style. And don't worry, nobody will leave you if you are going bald, especially if they love you and care for you.
> so I got over it and just hung out with my family (God forbid you do that instead of play video games all day).

That's the running joke with a buddy of mine when $GAME_WE_WANT_TO_PLAY isn't working: "awww, shit, Halo matchmaking is broken. What are we going to do now, spend time with our families?" But it's only a joke. If someone is in tears over it, it's a great teachable moment for parents. "Worst Christmas ever"? "Okay, kids, today we're going to learn about 'perspective'. Grab your shit, because we're heading down to the homeless shelter to drop off clothes and spoon up some soup."
A MOOC is analogous to a textbook.It's content, not a meet up. It can be consumed asynchronously.
You can try "Steal like an Artist" if you are looking for a quick and easy read.
“Our ddos was possible thanks to rooted undersea routers”
Jeux en ligne: gros plan sur les nouveautés de Playweez
Do you have any idea of the type of volume / growth they're getting? They're definitely one of the most exciting bitcoin projects to me, but it's awfully quiet.
I find that conclusion gratuitous. It's much more likely that there are legitimate reasons underlying the satisfaction which they didn't consider.

Ironically, the authors' move to rationalize away this unexpected finding as cognitive dissonance could itself be characterized as an instance of cognitive dissonance. The authors probably started out with a particular belief, and the findings didn't agree; instead of accommodating the data, they attempt to neutralize it.
Technically it's an ECMAScript API :)

The fuzzy search examples they give look as though they'll save a lot of time for me. Seeing as Mozilla says it's implemented in JavaScript, I think I might see if it it's easily turned into a standalone I18n library for node.js
I doubt any sane civilization wants to spread like cancer.
Tried to log on about 1500 PST and couldn't. Rebooting the Xbone fixed it. Sad thing is, my experience with the Xbone in general has been so poor that I didn't think a thing of it, like in "there must be something wrong". No, I just figured the flakey Xbox Live servers were having another bad day (which, as it turns out, they were).

As for the l'il tyke who was so devastated that he considers it the "worst...Christmas...evar", I've got news for ya, kid: you bought an Xbone, get used to stuff not working like you'd expect (or in the case of the latest Halo, not working at all).
Thanks. I just learned Node.js so it made your comment more helpful.
No, I'm going to trash his parents for raising a spoiled brat. Let me reiterate, this is temporary, this will pass, it will be back to normal before this kids Christmas Break is over.

Does it suck? Yes, but the parents should not tolerate this behavior. They just spent a considerable amount of money on this kid's Christmas and he cries because he has to wait 1-2 days??? Sounds like he isn't old enough to own an Xbox One to me....
What hurt Smalltalk was very expensive software licenses.

I think that if something like the free Pharo system had been available 20 years ago then history would be different.

A Smalltalk license for my old Lisp Machine would have cost, if I remember correctly, about $5K
If you want more people to understand legal procedure, you should suggest they read The Illustrated Guide to the Law, a webcomic by a defense attorney.

- Exclusionary Rule: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=1585
> It's to make sure the author doesn't get left in the dark just because they miss a mailing list digest line.

I intended to address this with my comment here:

> If he gets burned in the process, that's the price Scott is willing to pay to improve.

If Scott gets left in the dark, he feels that it is his fault for making a coding error in the first place. At this point, he no longer deserves to be enlightened. If the vulnerability discoverer feels like being nice and sharing this information first or simultaneously, wonderful. But if they botch it or maliciously post it everywhere else in the world, then no hard feelings. If public knowledge, eventually the problem will be fixed.

The key motive here is that at no point are third parties bound to regulate their behavior or self-censor. At no point will rudeness and/or publicly disemminating exploit code lead to any sort of criminal liability so long as the targets include Scott, Scott's code, and any systems solely under Scott's control.

Scott carries no legal stick. As a third-party security researcher with no business relationship with Scott, you should be empowered to give Scott as much advance/simultaneous notice as you feel is appropriate. With no requirements.

Let me frame it another way: The very act of publishing a security vulnerability benefits two parties: The publisher/vendor/author of the code that contains the vulnerability, and the public. In the case of Scott's open source software, the interest that matters most is the public interest. The public should be informed so they can decide whether or not they wish to continue to trust the code quality that Scott produces.

So what if Scott's servers get rooted and rm'd? He'll wipe them and write better code next time.

At no point will Scott impose any restriction on what you decide to do with your ideas that were inspired by reading his work. Even if your mind goes to dark places. All he asks is, just don't hurt the public. He's not exactly in a position to waive the right for the general public to press charges if you hack into their systems.
I do not share his Faith, but I understand his views to be a Leap of Faith. While science is nice and all but as humans taking such leaps and trusting other people despite evidence to the contrary, is every day business, is it not? Of course it is rather hard to believe that such a vast majority of people take such Leaps on not just ONE person, but a whole chain of people spanning over 2000 years!! But he must have his personal reasons, and i respect those.
Shortcuts for better design research
A lot of people consider nuclear annihilation a big threat but I'm not too worried about tbh. I mean if you think about it, every major player has got a trigger to end all life at any given point, doesn't it seem reasonable that at some point you invest a lot of money into systems that can safeguard and prevent this type of catastrophe. I know a lot of people may consider the governments dangerous and selfish but they aren't stupid, major players have definitely got systems in place to neutralise these threats.

At least they do in my optimistic viewpoint.
Ok, so you're using the loosest and least useful definition of "portable". And ignoring any issues about character encoding. And the advantages you're citing still aren't inherent to textual formats, they're just due to the widespread availability (on Unix systems, at least) of basic tools for manipulating text files.
Opinion on use of Mechanical Turk
Or maybe the long living civilisations never existed, or we aren't knocking on the right doors, or in the right areas?
Bell Labs got us microwave communications, lasers, transistors, Unix, C, awk, Plan 9, fiber optics, and a bunch of other things.

The new "sustainable" structures, frankly, aren't even a substitute.
I think you're trying to articulate is the Anthropic principle [1].

It basically states that the probability that "some" life exists is 1.

I'm not sure what the name of this next one is, but I believe it's a widely defended scientific principle that we're "typical" in some sense. This principle gets hard to justify cosmologically (it reduces to Occam's Razor locally), but it makes sense to me. It rejects very clearly some quirks like the Bolztmann Brain [2] argument.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
Sleep sort (2011)
As a non-bio person, I wonder what's the evolutionary reason for this not happening in more species.
Sure, sexual reproduction is the way to go if you have the option, but wouldn't a wouldn't a mother capable of both asexual and sexual reproduction have higher chances of propagating her genes than a mother who is only capable of sexual reproduction.
(I know I shouldn't be playing these mind games with zero knowledge of the subject, but I am curious)
"What's still missing in the LaTeX ecosystem (to my knowledge) is a visually pleasing writing environment."

I assume you're not aware of Lyx, then?:
http://www.lyx.org/

My own preference is to edit in Emacs/Orgmode, which automatically exports to LaTeX and processes to pdf. Somewhat similar to what other people have mentioned with markdown and pandoc, except that working with Orgmode allows you to insert LaTeX directly if you want, although you can certainly do an entire document without any LaTeX at all, and it will still export to LaTeX/pdf beautifully. E.g., https://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg04582....
Some friends have suggested embracing it and just either shaving your head or going for a really short buzzcut. Creative hats and headgear also make for cool accessories. Good luck!
The World of YouTube Bubble Sort Algorithm Dancing
Goistic?
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/silent-circle-expand...

"enables Silent Circle members to make and receive encrypted, private voice calls through the company's Silent Phone service to non-Silent Circle subscribers in 79 total countries"

The PR goes on and in about how "disruptive" this is, even though it's much more expensive than Skype, and about as secure.

It's highly misleading. The PR obviously wants people to buy this product for security and encryption, but it can't deliver. It's about as good as using SIP+TLS/SRTP, Skype, or a VPN. Yet given the high cost (12 cents a minute) plus the marketing, it makes users believe they're getting actual encrypted calls. You guys should clearly state in the marketing and in-app that the call gets a first hop encrypted, then dumped unencrypted out to the Internet/PSTN (which nowadays are rather intermingled, sometimes when least expected).

Other stuff like "100% dedicated network – no sharing or leasing" sounds like it's probably untrue, or uses a special value of 100%. Either way, such statements should be backed with clarification.

Finally, there was a PR with Mike Janke, linked here on HN about a year ago. I can't seem to find it now, but he says a bunch of misleading/false things while writing off competition and makes SC come off rather slimy. Y'all shouldn't let him talk for the company as it makes the engineers look bad. (Not to mention the whole thing about Blackphone - a closed source fork of Android with a few 3rd party apps, no mention of the baseband processor issue, yet billed as some amazing breakthrough and it's own OS.)

SC should lower the hype and be transparent about things. Overall, I get the distinct impression it's a marketing joint bankrolled by a non technical founder, who hired some good names and provided a commercial vehicle for zRTP. Which by itself is fine, but the execution feels more marketing than technical.

PS, if you're using FreeSwitch, then I gotta ask: where are all the CVEs? Are you fixing them privately, publicly without announcement, or are you using FS without a security audit? (The only reason I mention this is SC often seems a major sponsor of ClueCon.) If not FS, what is your VoIP platform, and in what language is it written?
React.js Tutorial: Tetris using SVG from scratch, by a web programming neophyte
Mostly related to #2, that's what most annoyed me about school-taught history. Sure, the Japanese, just for the hell of it, spend a bunch of money sending planes to Hawaii and that's how poor ol' innocent United States ended up in WWII. C'mon, why did the Japanese do it? It wasn't until years later that I learned anything about a blockade in the Pacific. I mean I can understand a little "America: fuck yeah!" attitude, but no one thought to mention that little tidbit?

The entire planet gets into a war in the early 1900s because some two-bit archduke of something-or-other got shot? WTF? Woah, back up there, Teach; you've got some explaining to do. (And when I read the explanation years later, I still go "WTF?")

Point is, if the cliche is correct then we're doomed to repeat history again and again because there seems to be little effort to explain why things happened. What the hell was the U. S. doing in some dot on the map in Southeast Asia in the 60s? Domino theory? C'mon, I doubt anyone believed that even at the time if a ten-year old version of myself is saying, "how dumb do you think I am?"

But, as you mention, it would seem that there's little enough time to teach the timeline, let alone explain the treaty situation of early 1900s Europe such that WWI makes sense.
Go to a good hair stylist and get their opinion on what looks best like shaving it off entirely, going for a buzz cut, etc. They work with hair all day and know what looks best with your head shape, baldness, etc.
So you wanna be a data scientist?
Then why isn't his example stupid, but fine? They're basically doing the same bad thing - subtracting two signed integers without caring about possible overflow.
28 is fine - not really premature. Use it to your advantage - you look older than others and can be perceived as more responsible/wise etc.
As far as finding a life partner goes just remember that you are not trying to get everyone to fall in love with you, just one person. Be upfront and confident about who you are and how you look and you'll end up with the right person. Hide it and you are starting a relationship with deceit.
Times Magazine Declares Selfie Stick One of the Best Inventions of 2014
The three L argument is aimed only at people who believe in the historicity of Jesus, as well as that he was a great spiritual leader, but who belief that there are also other paths to spiritual enlightenment or salvation. It obviously carries no weight to people who don't believe Jesus was a historical figure, or who believe he was a liar or a lunatic.
> In other words, you're paying for the quality of the education that you'll receive.

Sort of, ish. There'd be a lot fewer people going to uni for the abstract concept of "education", especially at what it costs in the US - the reason that many people go to uni is that you can prove that you've been educated under such-and-such a standard to future employers. That's credentials, and that's what people are looking for from a college.
Thanks for letting me find out about this article and this whole awesome website!
I think that almost anyone's foundational world view is interesting, and worth asking questions about. Why, for instance, do you believe that serious claims require serious evidence?
I was looking for something like this not but a week ago! The previous ST 2 plugins for elixir don't seem to work well (or at all).
You can't do anything without credentials. You can't just apply to a job and say "yeah, I know it all," when everybody else who 'knows it all' has a degree backing them up. It puts you at a severe disadvantage.
"A possible exception can be made for things like int, but even then I prefer defining type aliases for things as much as possible, so the type system is as helpful as possible."

It's important to note that Go doesn't allow you to define type aliases. Embedding is the closest you get.
I pretty much went through the same thing, it sucks.

There is definitely a social impact, especially when dating, but also in other areas. When you turn on the TV, how do you figure out whether a non-hero character is a bad guy? If he's bald, he always is. There is definitely a heavy cultural bias against bald people.

Aesthetics is a big part of it though. People with hair can pull off a lot of looks that simply are grotesque on bald people, but the good news is: it's something you do have control over. The worst thing you can do when bald is being fat. So work out, and wear nice clothes. These things matter a lot more when you're bald, you'll notice the impact immediately. In fact, these things matter a lot more as you get older in general.

Confidence is another thing you can actively work on. People tune you out if you think you're not interesting. While the deck is stacked against you a little bit due to things outside your control, the biggest impact on your confidence is, well, your confidence. If all else fails, learn to imitate confident people and don't be discouraged by failure. One of the things you can learn from observing confident people is that their failure rate is not actually that low, for the most part they are just really good at concealing or downplaying failure. If you suck at networking, that's not due to baldness, it's because you don't enjoy networking to begin with, because you don't have a lot of practice, or because you get discouraged easily. I can identify with that, but believe me it's something that gets better if you're determined to become better at it.

A certain percentage of people will never date you, never trust you, never want to listen to you. This applies to everybody on the planet. Sure, that percentage will be much lower for a non-bald good-looking person, but the essence of the fact remains: you can't make everybody like you. Try to train your internal classifier and filter for those whom you can build a relationship with. Attempting to win over people who reflexively dislike you is a fool's errant; there are lot of "low hanging fruit" you can pick up instead using a fraction of the energy.

The nice thing about people who make a lot of snap categorizations on a whim, like never date|befriend|trust|invest in|talk to a guy who has attribute X, is they come around just as fast if they see you're successful. A lot of people only like you when you win, so go out and pick battles you can win. The goal is, much like doing a startup, to make it unreasonably expensive for people to dislike you.
Sure, but the New Testament is pretty clear about its claims that Mary hadn't had sex before conceiving. It seems clear that at least some people thought that the Old Testament prophecies involved a virgin birth.