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> It’s better suited for restaurant use,

I'm a wine enthusiast with a restless palette. Even if I adored the last glass, I'll want something different next. This makes me a bad fit for bottles (in small groups).

Consider the restauranteur offering wine by the glass. On the upside, glasses (should) deliver a larger margin than whole bottles. On the downside, unsold product is thrown out. This is why high-volume low- and moderately-priced wines sell by the glass. Lower-volume wines would be thrown out too often. The higher price point would make that wastage more painful.

In New York, the Coravin system has saved me from having to choose between often mediocre wines and locking down to a bottle. It makes volume less critical, to the wine bar, in choosing which wines to offer by the glass. The palette thus broadens.
FxOS2.0 was mentioned in several articles.
How about a first-class Posix layer for Windows, a supported cross-platform native application SDK, and a hacker friendly app store supporting the union of packages available from a debian repository plus commercially licensed software? Well, a man can dream.
Show HN: Initial release of H2O, and why HTTPD performance will matter in 2015
What sort of grace period do you mean? For which?
Perhaps being "advised to cease her activities" is codename for one of those "enhanced interrogation techniques"
I just wanted to state why I don't share the more or less common believe that Bitcoin can replace traditional currencies, I did not want to imply anything else about what Bitcoin can, can not or should do. But if you bring it up, I don't think Bitcoin is competitive with alternatives like credit cards or PayPal because of the high transaction costs.
It's funny how alike you'll think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8794956
Agreed. Whichever meaning it invokes, it's not a good name.
Can you spell out the specific attack that you think could take place? In practice, I don't think a large scale double spend would work.

Someone with 51% of the network (as you say, costing $100M+ of mining equipment currently) could execute an arbitrary double spend attack. If they are financially motivated, they might try an attack like this:

1) Buy a large asset (say a publicly traded company, a huge tract of real estate, a closet full of gold) with bitcoin.
2) Wait for the transaction to clear. For a large asset purchase such as the above, this could take weeks.
3) Once the asset is in hand, use your mining power to reverse the transaction.

There is a critical flaw in this plan: you are obviously stealing, and the justice system will treat your actions as theft. If you try this for a reversible asset transfer, like real estate, they will reverse the transfer in addition to punitive measures. For gold, you might be able to hide the gold somewhere, but again at that point it is just common theft.

Attacks that are not financially motivated are a different story; a nation state or other party could try to 51% the network simply to destroy bitcoin. Of note here is the fact that nation states have more straightforward ways of hurting bitcoin, starting with outright bans.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8792565
The Brightest Thing in the Universe
You're right, it looks like the wording is a bit unclear. I'll talk to the guys to see if we can get it updated, thanks.
There is actually a pretty good explanation for it in my opinion, that it takes about this long since the big bang for life forms of our complexity to exist. (meaning our planet was seeded at some point with some primitive life forms that than continued on their evolutionary tracks towards this point in time).

So you have many planets starting to get to the point where space exploration on a wide scale is feasible. Maybe a few are a hundred thousand and some change years ahead or behind us but the likelihood is low that many are significantly well established, or established long enough and close enough for us to detect.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8794685
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well to be fair, purely theoretically, you "just" need to accelerate once (and be able to hit the brakes many many many years later!) and find a way to sustain (food, water, air) yourself on a spaceship. Then a colonization flight might very well take serveral hundred to thousands years in the beginning.

A bit like the general idea of the recently aired tv show Ascension.
>Assange has said he would go to Sweden if provided with a diplomatic guarantee that he would not be turned over to the United States[70] but the Swedish foreign ministry stated that Sweden's legislation does not allow any judicial decision like extradition to be predetermined.

They could make an exception. They won't.
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It's hard to quantify what is secure and what is not. Actually working out what the incentives are for the system is surprisingly tricky, miners have all sorts of different motivations that conflict even when they would appear to be highly illogical on paper. Miners today include transactions with zero fees, where in a naive model of the network they probably wouldn't. The justification is often that it's financially sensible for them to do this because it inspires confidence in the system, making the price higher, which in turn makes their income higher.

The lack of possibility for a pricing feedback loop makes this all a little tricky too, as the system can't make any changes based on external influences.
Blowing Up HTML5 Video and Mapping It into 3d Space (2010)
See also: Acid House. An astonishing number of classic tracks in the genre are based on "random" sequences on the Roland TB-303 synth, repeated hundreds of times. (The synth's sequencer is tenuous to program, so just pushing the buttons randomly is a quick way to get a sequence of notes)
Only without the owner pointer. But intrusive lists don't need an owner pointer either.
There's many more times that, my estimates put it between two and three thousand.

> using algorithms unsuitable for ASIC or GPU implementation

You don't want that. Give this a read.

https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/asic-faq.pdf
I think the VC11 compiler adds official support with a /kernel switch.
A grace period for the case that you forget to manually update the canary. Say you forget it, but after x amount of days you (or someone else) notice, then you update and continue.

That grace period needs to be well defined, announced and properly used. Having a grace period of almost 3x the announced update rate (5 -> 25th of December) is IMHO not acceptable.
But they own the OS, so I guess they can intercept whatever they want before it even reaches the app.
I had this idea recently myself and to the best of my knowledge you're the only other person who's mentioned it. The closest I've found is the "galactic preemption" hypothesis published in the 80's, but that's more an explanation for why only one civilization would exist in a single galaxy, rather than for why a newborn civilization such as our own would look at the sky and see no signs of civilization in the whole universe.

Have you seen this idea published anywhere?
That's great to hear.

I certainly don't think the problems are cultural. I believe it's the inherent business model which is not aligned.

You are happy with your outsourced teams but I would love to know how do you compare your outsourced team with your US one? I believe that their are super quality engineers in Asia who can give you US standard of work but you will never get access to those guys as long as you are going through an outsourcing company. In a team of 10, maybe you'll have 1-2.

You may not think so but you can actually afford to hire 10 senior high quality US standard guys in your outsourced teams. And it would still be 20% of your US cost yet your partner company's interest is not in it. They'll always tell you it's hard to hire, market competitive or difficult to retain etc.
For scans of much of the historic software source code that Knuth mentions near the end of the video, see:

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Knuth_Don_...
If your visitors are using HTTPS to talk to you CDN, then you almost certainly should be using HTTPS from CDN to origin.
Or, since Silent Circle partakes of extremely misleading marketing and claims you can make encrypted calls all over the world, LE can just go tap the VoIP providers they use. Legally, or, since almost all VoIP is unencrypted, just by tapping Ethernet. Seriously, go read the press release for the BlackPhone and tell me you'd trust their CEO at all. Even Mr Zimmerman admits the entire business relies on LE not coming into their office with guns.
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Sure, if the license permits that.
Based on a critical reading of the 'Thu Dec 25 19:07:56 2014 UTC' update I'd say it has served its purpose and delivered its only message as loudly and clearly (or absently and morbidly, as the analogy may go) as it can.

ps anyone got a link to any previous canary update, or even a copy of the public key?

pps the update I read (including signature) had sha1sum 790b9817923137c68bd0a818456f2b47ff25719f
There is actually a pretty good explanation for it in my opinion, that it takes about this long since the big bang for life forms of our complexity to exist. (meaning our planet was seeded at some point with some primitive life forms that than continued on their evolutionary tracks towards this point in time).

Interstellar seeding is not required to believe that complex life becomes possible at approximately the same time throughout the universe. Other possible reasons:

- Concentration of heavy elements has increased with successive star generations.

- Galactic cosmic ray bursts (which can sterilize all complex life within thousands of light years) become less common as a galaxy ages.
Inclusion in HTTPS Everywhere is purely voluntary. No one is forced to do anything.

Yes, EFF, like most NGOs/non-profits, optimize for status and publicity. And yes, CloudFlare is a global MITM.

It's still better than unencrypted connections and no one paying attention. They're raising the bar for eavesdropping from being in the same coffee shop to breaching CloudFlare.
Way more fun, at least.
Missed updates, which is what this thread is all about. So say you define up front that you're going to update your canary once weekly but that you reserve the right not to update it for up to three weeks before you consider the canary to be in a state where you can't revive it. This adds a bit of leeway in case someone sleeps in and because you define it up front you can let your users determine if they are comfortable with the period specified as 'uncertain'. Any time beyond that grace period and you're definitely compromised, any time between the normal interval and the grace period and you're in 'degraded' mode and as long as you are within the normal interval you're good.

Personally I think the grace time should be much smaller than your normal update period for the system to continue to work without appearing incompetent after all if you can't be bothered to update the canary you probably should not be trusted with critical data. It's not as if it is a large amount of work and it's not as if checking whether it is done or not is a large amount of work either. In fact, the update should be manual but the check could easily be automated and a 'canary out of date' text message could easily be sent to all the people working for companies such as silent circle if they take their job seriously.
http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/

It's called "subresource integrity". Mozilla and Google have reps working on the spec. Example:

<script
src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.min.js"
integrity="ni:///sha-256;C6CB9UYIS9UJeqinPHWTHVqh_E1uhG5Twh-Y5qFQmYg?ct=application/javascript">

Anybody in the transmission path can cache that, but they can't change it. This improves caching performance in general, because you don't need timed expiration. Load JQuery-1.10.2 once, and never load it again unless it changes.
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The "free RAM" statistic is meaningless. Are any applications in particular using lots of private memory?
America as a nation has always been drawn taut between its interests - intelligence, military, economic, political and otherwise - and its ideals which clearly state that "all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights" which includes a right to a liberty which excludes suspicion-less search and seizure and a right to be secure in their persons.

Throughout the history of America we've seen the tension shift to one side of this rope or the other. through a series of Supreme Court decisions in the very early 1900's (during the Spanish American war) it was settled at the highest level that American occupied territories do not have a right to self-determination nor to many other constitutional rights. Today this is status quo.
I am not thinking about attacks for financial gains - if you already have 100 million Dollars there are probably better ways to get some more money than trying to double-spend Bitcoins. The really bad scenarios are probably adversary states or terroristic organization shutting down the circulation of money in case a state or a couple of states decide to use Bitcoin as the primary currency.
Reminds me of the pay it forward coffee stunt. Here is the economics behind it:
http://m.fastcompany.com/3034747/fast-feed/breaking-a-pay-it...
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> pretty much nobody in Windows uses VS

Between your comment about the dog-fooding of compiler drops, and the raving reviews of VS that I've heard (no first-hand experience, mind you), that surprises me. If nothing else, I would think that having everyone on VS while editing something like the Windows source code would surface VS bugs that one might not encounter in other situations.

That said, I do have a deep appreciation for the pushback against a corporate editor mandate.
I don't need to make money. Access to a flight API would be useful for planning my own trips.
If you're not a wine enthusiast, this simply doesn't seem like a product worth anybody's time of day. However, it must be noted that this is an excellent idea for wine preservation. Just think about how great it must be to save an expensive bottle from needing quick consumption before it experience's the perils of too much oxygen.
Doesn't that introduce too much ambiguity into what is supposed to be an unambiguous signal?
That's a great tradition, that could be applied to not just coffee and pizza. Hope it takes off at other food joints as well.

On a side note, you wonder how many poor people go to coffee bar Gambrinus, featured in the article. It's well known, but a caffè costs more than 2 euro's there, whereas coffee bars in living neighbourhoods charge 70 euro cents. Gambrinus is a place where tourists and well-to-do's frequent.
> The test group listened to a recording that made them aware of their heart rate and breathing. It told them to accept these sensations and thoughts “without restriction, resistance, or judgment.”

From this excerpt, it seems like the study results may be contaminated by framing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_%28social_sciences%29) rather than meditation alone. A better study would use an exercise without such terminology.

If there is an effect from meditation, I wonder how permanent the effect is, or if your implicit associations ebb and flow with how mindful you are at any given moment.
Jazz is built on very deep yet very simple structures - specifically, 4/4 swing rhythms, and circle-of-fifths harmony. I'll try to explain something of how swing rhythm works here, so you can grasp the depth of "slightly unpredictable repetitive" it offers, and the appeal of jazz (and its descendants, rock/country/R&B).

Swing is actually the simplest expression of a three-against-two polyrhythm. I don't know if this will format well on HN, but here's a try...

x-x-x-x-x-x-

x--x--x--x--

This is 12 subdivisions, divided into twos and threes. Where the twos and threes line up are interesting focal points. You can see them on the downbeat (start) and backbeat (middle). Now, let's try to express 3 against 2 in a lighter way...

| x--x-xx--x-x :||

or even

x--x--X--x-x

This last one is really interesting. The capital X (backbeat) is played with an accent to show a triplet-cycle lineup, and the trailing x is an "anticipation beat" into the next downbeat. With just those two things, you can express polyrhythm.

But unlike this notation, a beat isn't a fixed point in time! Rather, it's a region of probability where a sound might occur. Sounds can start anywhere in their beat, and attack or decay slowly or quickly, and evolve over multiple beats. This matters for the timekeeping instruments. Bass instruments tend to attack slowly, and high-pitched percussion like cymbals and snare drums attack very quickly. This creates a tension between the bass sense of time and the treble sense of time, tension that can be exploited musically.

So the backbeat and trailing anticipation beats that help define the underlying polyrhythm? They can be played early, or late. This can make the music feel faster or slower than it actually is!

Compare reggae and ska. They use exactly the same rhythmic structures. But in reggae, the guitar "skank" and the snare drum arrive very late, dragging the beat. In ska, they arrive early, pushing the beat. So reggae sounds relaxed, and ska sounds excited. Same beat, different meaning, just by manipulating the polyrhythmic emphasis.

The emphasis can also be manipulated by making the polyrhythm more or less explicit. Blues often has a very hard triplet feel. A lot of rock is very square and barely swings at all.

The beauty is that this is incredibly simple and repetitive, but offers an infinite variety of emotional expressiveness. This is why the American beat has dominated popular music for century. (As an aside, this is why so much drum machine music sounds painfully stiff - it lacks the core tool of expression)
There is no technical information, no theoretical model, no working prototype, no published article, ... It's the physics equivalent of vaporware.
Unless you have a phone still vuln to the Android signature bug, which is millions of devices still running unpatched carrier builds.
Bill Joy used to say that the number of bright employees in a company was the log of the number of employees. He would then explain that he had not expressed the base, which could be different on a company by company basis.

Though he never expressed the result for the self-employed, log(1) = 0 in any base.
When I read "callback", I interpret it as "function argument to be invoked to deliver a notification to a user-specified place". For example, to tell you that your transaction has completed, that your network connection was broken, that your write failed, that a log message is available, etc. Typically a callback returns no useful result and takes one argument, but sometimes takes no arguments, and in systems that don't have closures (like C) it typically takes an additional argument supplied along with the function pointer.
Well, they can change it if it and the resource are not served over HTTPS by changing both the hash and the response for the resource.

This doesn't add much unless at least the parent page is using HTTPS, else the hash can simply be stripped anyway. If browsers had an HSTS type precache list for sites that must use hashes, if they aren't using HTTPS then the resource and the hash can be changed.
Wasn't skype protocol created to be undetectable and unkillable by telcos.

I would also love to see what kind of evidence they could provide that a person used skype for calls that would hold in court.
Do you know how private preserve compares to just pumping the air out, which is what I currently do?
If you think corporations give a fuck about disparaging Christianity you're delusional.
It's amazing how much this says about them that they would try to hide this report. They're in dire need of a real leader.
Marc Benioff the CEO and Co-Founder of salesforce.com's Philanthropic Mission
It's the centennial of his death. John Muir died of pneumonia on Christmas Eve 1914 in Southern California. [1]

[1] http://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/john_muir_nati...
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When I watch or listen to anything for the second time I only get about 75% of the enjoyment out of it. But it might be something wrong with me ...
I'm certain that my company has one Bright employee in it.
It's hard to know with certainly exactly what the photographer was thinking (without asking them).

I personally think it's a good point that a lot of pictures that are famous/considered visually interesting are of grandiose locations and subject matter while here we have artistically strong photographs of "common/boring" spots.

Regardless of what the photographer intended, it's an mildly interesting thought.
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i recently installed some node-webkit on ubuntu 14.04. They work fine. Dynamically linked to .so isn't a big hassel. Its just small work-around. Such library changes do happen in desktop world. But i agree, a better handling to link dynamic libraries is missing in the scene at the moment.
Makes one wonder if one could hit on more quality assured work if one shopped somewhere within the states but outside said valley.
Excuse my density here, but why not just force all strings to be UTF8 and call it a day? Anything in another encoding would need to get converted. What am I missing that Ruby and Python need these complicated problems but other platforms don't have these issues?
Europeans are not subject to American laws, but they would be if they stole something in the states, or they would expect to be protected by US police when visiting the states. Can someone with knowledge comment on how this applies to someone engaging in commercial relationship with a US citizen or corporation? I.e. is it fair to make the assumption in that case that their information in the context of that exchange is protected from espionage? If yes, do they have legal resource for breach in this trust or is the right only enforceable by the US citizen or corporation in this relationship?
Sure it's time of festivities and alcohol becomes topical, not to say chic. Needles to say, I find this very sad.
I often wonder this as well. The speed of light isn't really a physical limit to expansion - generation ships are theoretically possible. It may just be that the Great Filter takes the form of relatively benign[1] economic and/or sociological obstacles.

At least, if you take a diff between typical beliefs at the time the Fermi Paradox was formulated vs. typical beliefs now, I would say the experience of the shutting down of Apollo and overall reduction of human space exploration is probably the most relevant new observation we have made since then.

[1] In the sense of: You don't need nuclear armageddon to stop humans from spreading to other solar systems; the price tag of interstellar travel is sufficient.
"The Moment I Said It" is a good example.
Eastern Europe is to the Nordics what Asia is to USA...
well, that's something easily prevented beforehand.
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"How is this not a crime?"

It is. But a crime does not need to be punished if those that commit it are powerful enough.

People in the NSA know lots of secrets of everybody. They know if the president has a mistress. They know if members of congress or their family do take drugs. They know who is corrupt and who does not. They know all the mistakes people did for getting where they are.

Remember that the NSA records and stores all telephone conversations so they can years later analyze and make sense of it.

So telling the person not to be a bad boy again is the best solution for everyone involved. Angry employees are not good here.
Ungil Kurismas (Palauan)! Probably my favorite post on HN right now. Happy Holidays to all.