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I don't personally see what problem this is solving. As with Carousel, Dropbox hasn't wowed me with their releases lately. What is compelling about this over the thousands of other mail clients / gmail skins out there?
...CAN bus reader...

Hahaha we finally got rid of our Case JX100U last year. There was always a strain sensor or whatever going out on that thing, but you could usually figure out which one it was by counting how many times a LED blinked. (I.e. three blinks followed by six blinks would be error code 36.)
Typical techdirt bullshit.

The report claims that 95% of that money that goes to the labels goes to cover all of the "expenses" those poor poor labels have to endure to record and... um... upload(?) the actual music. Sure, in the past, it may have been reasonable for the labels to take on large fees for distribution -- but that's when it meant manufacturing tons of plastic and vinyl and then shipping it to thousands of record stores around the globe. In this case, there's no manufacturing, and distribution is an "upload" button.

So streaming revenue can only be applied to streaming expenses, and can't be used to offset the costs of physical production, advertising, tour underwriting...? Presumably Mike Masnick also thinks that CD revenues were never used to pay off the expenses of vinyl pressing or promotional swag. He's probably also oblivious to the fact that many musical acts lose money and until they become profitable any incoming revenue will be used to pay off money advanced by the label. And the lowish (IMHO) payouts from services like Spotify don't go as far as some other revenue sources when it comes down to paying off the up-front expenses.

Is Mike Masnick really this stupid, or does he just like pandering to his readers' ignorance? these statistics are meaningless absent any context of profit and loss for the labels. It's not that I love record labels, but typically they are fronting the money for the production, marketing, and sitribution and I don't think it's so weird that they prioritize recovering their investment, like any other capitalist entity does. It's not like pop singers and rock bands are going to have an IPO and sell shares direct to the public.
I was just badly berated by a colleague of mine for not providing a more technical response. My argument to him stands IMO, that your understanding of what constitutes a valid side channel attack is fundamentally flawed in any case.

First, lets start with: All of the library and showcase pieces are WAN material. If you bothered to look, you would have noticed that all of the necessary blinding is performed for all cryptographic operations as received, thus even for LAN access, thanks to blinding as widely accepted mitigation strategy, no timing information is leaked.

Second, if you bothered to actually peruse the implementation, you would have noticed that when it receives a bad HMAC, instead of reporting that differently to the would-be attacker, it randomizes the expected packet length, thereby rendering timing information based solely on the TLS and/or SSH state mechanism useless.

Third, padding related issues are treated the same, such that no attacker-perspective notifications are broadcast.

Fourth, the TLS Blacklist feature I added was only an additional, and IMO decent server-side mitigation technique insofar as during normal operations, decrypt operations do not fail, and if they do, why give an attacker the opportunity to perform 32M+ tests against my implementation?

In any case, as mentioned specifically on my rwasa page, I left the TLS Blacklist feature disabled for my own website due to the ssllabs.com security scans being incorrect if it is enabled.

In summary, my speed increases are not due to shortcutting security protocols or best practices, but the fact that my modular exponentiation routines in x86_64 assembler are indeed faster.

Please send me my private key to 2ton.com.au and I will take the whole lot down immediately.
You're getting downvotes because you're making an assertion (phi is related to many cosmological constants) but are consistently not backing it up, citing any specific sources, etc.
1) Resumes/past experience might be BS

2) Might have personality issues

3) Might have been fired

In my experience, having someone over-qualified is a bad move. However in development, isn't there always "senior"-level work to do?

I'd say it's not worth following up if you're busy, as great people usually know they're great...
As an example, there recently has been a publicly disclosed IE11 zero day that allows universal XSS that IMO is more severe and easier to exploit than GHOST.
> This doesn't mean that there aren't elements either within Saudi Arabia or originating from it which don't look kindly on the US.

It is not just the elements. You know the imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, who started the wahabism. This imam aligned with the great grandfather of the present royal saud family, in many ways: fighting against ottomans, through marriage. At one point, Ottoman empire through its proxy Egypt fought wahabi and al-saud, even excecuted one of the great grand fathers of the current royal saudi family.

In other words, the elements that are against USA are not tiny: they constitute the half of the foundation of current Saudi state. Royal Saudi family is the product of Al-Wahhab and Al-Saud; and they have married into tribes that scattered around Saudi, when they reclaimed Saudi.

Just saying that fringe elements of Saudi royal family are against USA is bullshit.

You know, who support USA in the saudi family? Only those billionaire types. The founder of Saudi Arabia had ~ 25 kids, each producing another 25, producing another 25. So, there are about 16000 royal family members. Majority of them are not wealthy. The kids of founder get $3M per annum, his grandsons get $300K per annum, his great grand sons get $30K per annum.

There is another reason why these princes breed 20 kids: just to get that monthly stipend, as the welfare starts right at birth.

The people who support USA are the king, crown prince, and interior minister, etc. So, basically 5 to 10 princes!! Even if you add 10 more, you have the support of 20 princes off of 16000 of all princes.
Lazy writing on my part, sorry. I was thinking of Ivy League as a proxy for 'private high quality university' rather than historical meaning.
But I think it is energy efficient already. The modern smartphone replaces the radio, tv, newspaper, store, school, workplace, you don't need a clock, a walkman or a map any more. All o these consumed energy or cost money to buy and are heavy to carry around.
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Elaborate?

What makes it a bad idea?

Having to rewrite an entire struct to change one value within it seems... counterproductive, considering that the purpose of having structs is largely speed-based.

I can see it being useful to be able to flag a struct as immutable for certain cases, but for there not being a mutable version?
I think they're talking about fuzzing the left pane background, not the code pane.
Many CEOs are salesmen or MBAs. They have nothing but contempt for IT. It's just a necessary cost center, funded at the minimum possible level.

HIPPA violations should be like Sarbox. The CEO should be held personally responsible, ideally by being terminated and then prosecuted. Then, and only then, will the average CEO take any of this seriously.
Chattel slavery was done much the same way everywhere, but doesn't make it any less of a scandal.

I'm not equating this with slavery, just pointing out that your argument is bogus.
Numerical constants alone don't fully specify the universe. They don't account for the laws that relate numerical constants to each other. What's missing is a sort of structural constant -- a minimal set of laws that describe all physical phenomena.

If the universe were the execution of a program, knowing these numerical constants would be like knowing all the... well... constants, in the source code, but missing all the code that binds them together.
I love these, great work. One minor nitpick; the next/previous links seem like they're backwards: I ended up hitting previous by mistake twice, thinking I was moving forwards.
This article is fascinating. I had no idea that the Von Neumann machine was an extrapolation of a mental model. Even more fascinating, that the existince of a symbolic computation machine made the possibility of purely symobolic epistimology impossible. It's like they abstracted a lever higher than they wanted to and then made a cleaner, simpler implementation of it. And now with modern AI we are doubling down on that implementation and trying to build a new kind of intelligence no top of it.
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That should be $(conda install --channel javascript nodejs).
What makes you say "with type inference being where it is"?
Have there been recent advancements?
Shouldn't be a problem with Pushpin. There's no major resource overhead in having lots of channels, and since channels exist on demand there's no extra administrative work either. Just assert unique channels at hold time, and publish to those unique channels.
Yes. That's exactly what I meant when I wrote "locked inside his brain".
I think the problem with this sort of thing is it doesn't capture the beauty and elegance of either Haskell or physics. Take the first line

data Vec = Vec { xComp :: Double
, yComp :: Double
, zComp :: Double }

The author has just defined a 3d vector. But there is no "3" in the above because Vec is hardcoded to be three dimensional. The physics student is probably interested in what aspects of physics are special to 3 dimensions, and which generalize to higher dimensions. I think geometric/Clifford algebra somewhat answers this, but my knowledge is limited. Anyway, functional programming is still at the stage when the things that it can express about mathematics, are actually pretty obvious already. I have high hopes for the future (e.g HoTT), but for now functional programming is much more exciting for programmers than physicists or mathematicians (who aren't logicians or category theorists).
The answer to this question has changed over time. My knowledge of the history is incomplete to say the least. During the first super string revolution, when it was understood that perturbative string theory would give a description of perturbative quantum gravity, the goal was to demonstrate that there were only a few choices of compactification manifolds available from consistency arguments (anomaly cancellation and unbroken super symmetry in four dimensions, probably the most well known paper is "Vacuum configurations for superstrings" by Candelas et. al.)

Ignoring heaps of details, the result was that the vacuum manifold (that is a solution to the 10d vacuum Einstein Equations) had to be some 4 dimensional symmetric space (usually taken to be Minkowsky Space) times a Calabi-Yau manifold, those are Kaehler manifolds with vanishing Ricci curvature (those have non-vanishing constant spinors, which you need for unbroken supersymmetry).

Initially it was believed that with additional physical consistency conditions and by relating the geometry of the Calabi-Yau manifold to known physical parameters, like the number of generations of particles, it would be possible to narrow down the number of "stable" vacua to a limited number.

While there were discovered a fair amount of dualities between different string theories, with the discovery of D-Branes and Flux Compactifications (which stabilize the moduli of a huge number of potential vacua, the general idea is that the space of calabi-yau manifolds can locally be paramterized as a finite dimensional manifold and those paramters would show up as massless fields that aren't observed, if there weren't any fluxes they couple to), the number of potentially stable vacua is now sometimes quoted as 10^500.

In itself this is not too concerning, if you think about the fact that there is a infinite number of solutions to the Einstein Field equations and general relativity is still a very predictive theory. In practice this means that you carefully engineer the vacua you study, for example with F-theory techniques in order to relate them to observed phenomena.

You are right that it just reframes the question, the low energy effective field coupling constants turn up as vacuum expectation values of certain fields, but in an interesting way. The idea is then to use relations and identities discovered in string theory (for example AdS-CFT) to study the low energy theories.
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Allow me to play devil's advocate here. I used to work for a company that produces measurement equipment for professional technicians. It's big, complicated, dangerous, and expensive equipment that is comparable in cost to the tractors discussed in this article. The products employ a number of measures to prevent end-users from tampering with things that shouldn't be tampered with (especially the firmware). Partly this is to discourage piracy. But mainly this is done because the equipment is quite complicated and there are not many people in the world who understand the technology well enough to make repairs on their own. It's very easy to cause unintentional errors that can cause much more serious damage than the original minor problem. And when the failure of your equipment can cause serious property damage, injury, or death are you going to make it easy for people to modify your product's firmware?
In the same way how farmer was so prominent in the beginning of the visual? Technology will displace entire sets of fields.

Maybe all truck drivers will become software engineers instead? Take away one option, pick another. I do forsee a lot of people picking eng fields over business degrees in the future. Comp Sci graduates have more options than biz admin / mba graduates from what I see, not only options toward swe but also pm, finance, consulting, etc.
Awhile ago I found a patch to Arel fixing up its support of unions, which I wanted to use, but it hadn't been merged and had fallen behind the version I was on. Fixing it up for the newer version required enough tweaking that I had to actually figure out how the code worked. I found it to be an impressively simple and well-written solution to an inherently complex problem.

All of this is to say that it would be neat to see this journey go even deeper!
Bridj [1] is a Boston startup exploring this opportunity. Here's a recent article. [2]

[1] http://www.bridj.com/
[2] https://www.bostonherald.com/business/business_markets/2015/...

(I have no association with the company.)
I remember Google had this deal before and they chose to end it [1] around the time it launched Google+. Seems like they have thrown in the towel on social :)

[1] http://searchengineland.com/as-deal-with-twitter-expires-goo...
Hyperbole aside, you are conflating two things: The accuracy of breaking news with the dissemination of that news. Breaking news is very often inaccurate. No amount of fact checking can fix it because in most cases no other news is available to counter the initial report. Unless you have reporters on the ground who can provide a more accurate report, you can't hope to improve that report. When a later report becomes available it becomes the newest report.

Like Infobitt, you appear to be aiming for a metric of quality ("accuracy") that the market doesn't care about that much. Take the recent plane crash in Taiwan as an example. At first it was reported that there were one or two casualties. Later reports said 13 dead. Most people are like "Oh really?" But, even though the first report is less accurate, it has more value to people than the second (unless you have family on the plane).

As for the distribution of news, unless you are Facebook you have no control over how news is shared. In fact, most people don't care about the casualties, they just want to share the video of the plane crashing across the bridge.
I wonder who would pay for that and why? Since advertisements can't be deployed through such a service, the service will need customers. Are those customers companies, or individuals? Are you going to sell to people involved in the stock market, like day traders? Or what type of customers would find this valuable?
As a materials engineer who works for a steel company (although my background is in blast furnaces and iron ore smelting - not micro alloying) maybe I can shed some light.

It largely comes down to enconomies of scale you can certainly make specialised grades of steel but often times it is not profitable to do so. Steelmaking is like most manufacturing process, cost decreases with scale. Usually the specialised grades simply aren't in high enough demand to recoup the costs involved in producing them.

For some grades the techniques to produce them are suitably differnt from standard grades that lines needs to be diverted and retooled to handle them, which impacts on yield and causes losses due to downtime etc. Not to mention many of the specialised alloying elements like Niobium etc. are also stupidly expensive. Buying these in small quanities is probably not ideal and I'd imagine its probably risky to buy in bulk because orders may not be filled quickly and business doesn't tend to like having capital tied up in raw material stockpiles.

Competition is also very fierce, for a while there has been an excess of steel capacity largely driven by rapid expansion of China's steelmaking capacity. So there is a lot of pressure on keeping operating costs per tonne low all of this kind of leads companies towards where the biggest returns are, which is producing the high volume steels at lowest cost. Thus most of research effort gets directed here as well. Thats not to say R&D isn't happening into specialised grades, its just not where the big payoffs are currently.
I agree with you in principle, but - quality propagates slowly (you have to build up a reputation for it, etc.) and price propagates quickly, it's right there to see next to the "order" button.
That's the thesis of decentralized economies -- that they are more effective at responding to market information, which is theoretically entirely captured by price, than centralized planners are capable of.
This game seems horribly buggy. It deducts bushels even when your move is rejected ("Thank again!".) Currently I have -2 bushels, but I don't think the concept of credit was intended to come into play.
A regularly updated list with user numbers of major sites and apps
Yes, and the vast majority of those millions of people have an arrangement with their OS vendor to receive updates, including security-related updates.

The ones who don't rely on Windows Update, Red Hat alerts, or similar services from various vendors are the ones who have presumably chosen an operating system deliberately outside of those with curated update procedures -- and please note that even relatively small projects tend to have security notification lists.

That leaves a vastly outnumbered, tiny minority of people who are either willfully ignoring crucial information or are constitutionally unable to consume it, and neither group is doing humanity any great service in the process.

In short, retaining a PR firm does nothing to enhance the overall internet's security posture, and just leads to a lot of half-informed worry on the part of people who can't take any action anyway.
There are options that aren't mentioned that are worth considering:

1. Don't grow. Maybe this means not at all. Maybe it means slowly. Maybe it means not right now because there isn't a good plan for handling it. There's nothing wrong with a lifestyle business and anyway that's more or less what a consultancy usually amounts to even at 50 staff.

2. Merge. Buy or sell to or partner with with a company which is strong where you are weak and vice versa. This is also a long play.

3. At the size you are, the Owners need to be dealing with clients on important issues. Bringing in another partner, and by partner I mean partner, will allow the client load to be shared among more people.

Good luck.
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I bet they also spent crazy money on non-diversity related things like employee perks or lobbying.
Richard Branson AMA – hopefully
Hi Hacker News!

I've been developing an app to facilitate authentic conversations about work.

Most people do not feel engaged at work, and I believe a big part of the problem is it's very hard to get authentic information about either breadth of jobs available, and depth of information about what a role is "really like".

Lantern is my attempt to help a little. It's a video platform for authentic discussions about work.

http://lanternapp.co/

NOW... tomorrow am lucky enough to be running into Richard Branson, and I would love to have him answer questions from our community within the app - for our own benefit, and also as a cunning launch strategy :)

Unfortunately, I'm still waiting on the app store review process, so going to have to use testflight for now.

If you're interested in having your questions (hopefully) answered by Richard, then reply with your email and I'll set you up.

Thanks!

Mark

ps. also, feel free to check out the app and provide feedback too. a "proper" launch is coming soon
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I normally try to kill everyone off and sell everything off anyway but I haven't noticed the bug you're experiencing.
Seems to depend a lot on RNG. If you get lucky with a good harvest and a plague in first couple years, it's smooth sailing to the end.
As an introvert who's been traveling solo for the past year, I've discovered that no amount of isolation will put me in "survival mode". It was disappointing because I had hoped that being away from home would help change that part of me. Guess it depends on what kind of introvert you are.
Kind of off-topic, and I'm sure I'm not the only one thinking this, but is it common to have clarity of mind at age 92? Is it mostly genetic or is it more like "keep challenging your mind and get enough sleep"? Anyone have good links?

At 29, I'm (probably prematurely) worried about cognitive decline. I only started challenging really myself last year.
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The theory is more an amusement than anything, but as the article points out, it seems it led to a major impact with the exposition of CPT symmetry. It makes sense if you know of Feynman's earlier work with Wheeler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%E2%80%93Feynman_absorbe...) which is actually a consistent theory of classical electrodynamics (i.e. half the electromagnetic interactions are "coming from the future").
Most techies have never heard of HN. Maybe 10 percent of them I meet have heard of it, almost none of them actually use it.
Are there any pure Python implementation of these algorithms? I am looking for something that would work with Google App Engine.
Yeah, I got two plagues and was able to do extraordinarily well. Not sure my subjects would entirely agree thought because, you know, plagues.