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Those companes can't be created domestically because there is a lack of consumption; people are saving 50% of their income for retirement and medical costs. And where does all that money go? Well, to business or government pork barrel projects.

A high savings rate is a boon like zero inflation is: both are economically disastrous. You need to encourage people to spend, otherwise those companies can't make money, they won't invest...and you get into a death spiral recession or depression!

Truth is: spending is as important as saving, go too far in either direction and you're screwed. Economics is all about balance.
> If that's the only difference, isn't Google-over-Tor a better option?

No, DDG is better because they don't limit or captcha you over Tor.

Also, brand names do matter. If DDG has staked their reputation on privacy, it's a safer bet. It would be difficult for them to be monetizing personal data when it's their stated policy not to. You'd have to hope the people you're selling this data to keep their mouths shut and so do DDG (ex)employees.
But in baseball, almost every player has to play in the minors first. The majority of minor leaguers don't make it to the majors... but it isn't usually possible to tell which type of minor leaguer you'll be for a few years.

So in pursuing professional baseball, you really do open yourself to a significant risk of finding that you're 26 and spent the last five years making very little money and now you don't have a job, or any professional skills beyond the offseason job you may have worked.
they don't, but they want to have a way to verify who you are for things like the sync feature. Even if you don't want to use the feature.

This is a pretty good example of not doing something because it represents a minority and would make onboarding more difficult for their actual value-add.
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Huh, it sure got that one right! Way to go. I'll keep an eye out for cases where this does or doesn't work in the future.
I have a theory: Doctors don't feel that someone with ALS can have an acceptable quality of life, and so do not provide the strongest possible lifesaving care.

Since Hawking is a celebrity, he gets a significantly higher level of care than would otherwise be available.

(Note for clarity that I am not, in general, in favor of forcing live-prolonging care on people who do not want it due to quality of life issues. But doctors have the same prejudices as everyone else, and people who look physically different or disabled tend to be silently judged as having mental problems, even when that's not remotely true.)
With modern ECC this is actually feasible.
GPG is an immense failure from the point of protecting person to person communications.

It is largely a success in verifying the identities of the software developers. The entire Debian ecosystem relies on GPG in largely successful ways.

Peter Todd suggests that PGP drop encrypted communications as a goal and focus only on identity and authentication. It appears the PGP just can't be bootstrapped into modernity from a communication point of view. The only major innovation in authentication and identity has been threshold signatures which GPG could support.
The problem is that security and crypto specifically, is a complex beast, so often it isn't possible to abstract away the details.

You cannot expect to avail of the benefits of crypto without taking some time to understand how different protocols work, how public key vs symmetric key crypto works, etc.

I agree that the situation could be much better than it currently is, but people can't expect to be given everything for free; there mist be some effort from the other side, which I don't see happening today, especially with the widespread disregard for mathematics in the general public.
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Clickable link:

http://www.butiikapp.com
I think part of the solution is to get security teams to recognize that good user experience is a part of secure design. If the interface allows users to make mistakes that compromise security then the software has failed. You can blame users for making mistakes and tell them to read book-length manpages but that doesn't solve the problem. Most users don't want a swiss army knife and directions, they want a complete solution to a specific problem.
Do you have a rough idea about the price? Am I expecting 2 figures? 3?
Wow. That is awful. I use their fitness devices (Edge 500 and one of the ForeRunners) and they've had some issues (bugs in the firmware), but nothing like that. Both integrate with Garmin Connect (the web site) using the Garmin Express app (OSX).
Or something like "movie with andre the giant". Google gets Princess Bride as result #2. DDG doesn't have a direct link to that in the first batch. I think Google handles ambiguity better (what users are searching for when they don't know how to express it). Of course, Google tends to overdo this too such that simple keyword searches ain't what they used to be.
Isn't IBE quite slow? And also it requires a third party for keygen and so on.
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Umm this article does not answer that question.
Yeah, that's an actual ECC public key in my example above.
DSL may be widely available, but it often can't be considered broadband. At my home (in a large-ish suburb) the fastest DSL connection I can get is 5 Mbps.
evidence: cutting off his leg is bad, but we had to do it first to have the evidence.
=> data

science: from all we know, we assume that cutting off his leg is bad, so we don't do it.
=> data and models
Ask HN: How do I prep for interviews, and stay calm before?
I know there's advice all over the Internet for this, but still just hoping for some feedback. I just finished a Skype interview that I'm feeling horrible about and this isn't the first time - I constantly feel terrible when doing coding interviews, I was even hesitant in my basic Fibonacci implementation (which was just a warmup!)

I can't let this keep holding me back, so any words of wisdom on this are appreciated.
Python 3 has no benefits if your Python 2 code works and many dependencies are not Python 3 compatible yet. Why would a company even port to Python 3?
If the problem is monopoly, why not use antitrust enforcement, rather than dictating service/pricing details?

And why impose net neutrality regulations on all the markets where there are multiple competitive providers? Why not let localities where there's an actual problem fix it locally, rather than set new nationwide rules?
Static Electricity. The meter movement is very delicately balanced, plus the plastic window can become charged. Waving your hand around affects the charge.

You've just invented the Electroscope.
How much money has Pebble Time raised?
Does anybody know if they considered a similar thing to what HotPy (2) [0] did?
I'm not anywhere near to understanding the implementation details, but HotPy stood up most when I looked into different Python implementations. Basically, it was a fork of an early development version of CPython 3.3 code, with more bytecodes added (which were easier to optimize than the originals), a tracing engine and some other things I don't understand. The best thing is you get language compatibilitity for free and it is also binary compatible with CPython extensions.

Unfortunately its development looks to be ceased.

[0] https://sites.google.com/site/makingcpythonfast/
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Hey guys,

I'm Carlos, one the of the Staygg founders. The app is not a Ponzi scheme, the fees will be made up in other ways as described in the FAQs on the website, and the mutual fund will provide daily liquidity, will be registered with the SEC, and will nearly perfectly replicate the S&P 500 - it does not aim to outperform the S&P 500. The mutual fund itself will not be innovative in any way - except that it's free - and the investment team won't be actively managing the fund. The real motivation behind this product is that each person on the Staygg team thought it would be cool to have an app like this so we decided to make it ourselves and make it available to others.

Thanks for the feedback.

Carlos
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What is IBE and who said anything about it?

I was talking about EdDSA.
Hawking's celebrity began decades after his diagnosis.
I used Thunderbird and Enigmail for a year or so. I later moved to Evolution for the better GPG experience (no flickering on opening the message as there is with Enigmail) and better GNOME integration. I used Evolution for another year, but its rough edges wore me down; I had to get in the habit of closing it if I wasn't using it, because it would noticeably slow my system down. It would take at least 5 seconds to open. Parts of the UI would often lock up and need a reset by switching between the panes.

I've been using Claws Mail for the past few months. It's simple, fast and stable, and GPG support is fine. That's all I need. It sucks for reading and writing HTML emails, but I'm okay with that. Parts of the UI are still rough (e.g. the main window isn't responsive while the "sending" dialog is open), but it's less worse than Evolution.
Some nuclear reactor instruments will respond in funny ways if you rub them. I never understood it, but some don't find it very funny.
OK. But if you have control of the comparison routine, you can easily force mergesort to perform a quadratic number of comparisons by having the comparison function call itself an appropriate number of times. It feels a little unfair to call that a vulnerability in quicksort but not in mergesort.
SBM believes that rather than treating patients using evidence based medicine, you should look at the all of the scientific evidence about the efficacy of a treatment, but then weight that evidence using preexisting scientific beliefs about the world in general.

The problem is that it's not clear whose gets the decide what the existing scientific beliefs are, how the evidence should be weighted, whether this results in better patient outcomes than treating patients using evidence based medicine, etc.
People are giving you stuff that is hard to understand for a non-developer, like Angular and MVC frameworks, and that isn't really a "minimum".

The real, simplest, tools are HTML, Javascript (jQuery), PHP, and MySQL. You can sign up for shared hosting that costs $10/year and start developing something as complicated as Facebook or Wordpress with only these tools.

People hate on PHP for various reasons, a lot of it stems from a lot of PHP code being terrible because it was written by novices. But this reveals something: there are a LOT of PHP novices because it is tremendously easier to get started with than other options. No configuration, just a text file ending with .php and upload it to your shared hosting with an FTP client (or even the one built into your cPanel). Bam, working backend.

Feel free to contact me if you need help.
It's fine by me if a dictatorship takes the lead in space. Their people might suffer as a result. Our goal should always be to raise the average standard of living. If that means taking a back seat in some area, why not?
How barbaric are you? Only commoners might consider DSL to be "broadband". What's next 3G or satellite internet considered "broadband"? Have you no decency?
I am trying (with some success) to get QuickCheck used in the Rust community.

Listing my projects that us QuickCheck would be cheating, so I'll link projects that aren't my own. The most impressive, by far, is this linear algebra library: https://github.com/japaric/linalg.rs/tree/master/tests --- Just pick a file at random and look for `#[quickcheck]`. :-)

Here's some fancy testing for a "concurrent, lock-free, linearizable, insert-only, sorted map": https://github.com/danburkert/pawn/blob/1afe50c618a733de63b9...

Another: https://github.com/apasel422/tree/blob/6656140c44687793e31ae...

And OK, I'll stop now, but you can see more here: https://github.com/search?q=extern+crate+quickcheck&type=Cod...
> Peter Todd suggests that PGP drop encrypted communications as a goal and focus only on identity and authentication.

Identity and authentication are the biggest reason that PGP hasn't caught on with non-technical users - the web-of-trust is necessary to do distributed identity and authentication properly (under the current model), and the importance of out-of-band verification can be hard to explain. Authentication (as opposed to authorization) is hard, even without factoring in state adversaries.

The fact that the web-of-trust hasn't succeeded doesn't mean that another model won't, but I don't think it makes sense for PGP to throw out the one goal it already does incredibly well (securing communications) in order to focus on the biggest problem we haven't been able to solve in 20 years.
Yeah, I agree. It's a possibility that their android app might not require play services, though, and will work on your Blackberry (and my CyanogenMod).
I'd recommend going base32 instead of base64 (case sensitivity won't screw anything up) and not padding with = characters. I know not padding violates RFC 4648 but I don't know anyone who's used to a = in their email address.
Yes, sort of. There were some salient points made here about needing to get over the initial barrier to entry, and needing also some prerequisite commercial goal which obviates the current "Why would anyone want to go there?" kinds of questions. But yes, sort of like Space-X. But Space-X is really just trying to make cheaper rockets. While that's fine, I suppose, I don't think the revolution will be chemically-fueled. I'm hoping something like a space elevator or magic antigravity machines that will let all the other "innovators" iterate on the shoulders of those first giants, opening up space as a platform for the commoner. I'm thinking of some very elementary replication of previous industries, like the internet: Some very smart people build a platform (or infrastructure, or manufacturing process) which lets people build on top of it. Like Twitter and Facebook on the internet.
Python 2 isn't going away any time soon. Less than 10% of the community uses 3 according to pip version usages...
Ah, ok. Thanks.

Reminded me of thinking about what if you targeted a laser on a map and it burned physical terrain.
5Mbps was "broadband" (>3Mbps) until the FCC made an arbitrary goalpost-moving redefinition a few weeks ago.

5Mbps is more than enough for live HD videoconferencing and 720p HD TV/movie downloads (Netflix/ITunes/Amazon) faster-than-realtime. Yeah, I like it when multi-GB software or datasets download in a few minutes... but I'm in the bandwidth-huffing 1%.

If almost everyone has competitive options for everything they regularly use, but a few of the heaviest users have to buy from a single best provider in their area, that doesn't sound like a national "rescue the net!" emergency to me. Just a temporary inconvenience for early adopters.
> However, when you want good encryption, user experience always comes after security

I'm going to throw down a gauntlet: encryption design that doesn't start with designing for the human users is already fundamentally broken. Why? Because it cannot represent a solid system. This isn't machines in the Matrix talking to one another: the needs of the human users are the only thing that matters.

Combine that with the past few decades of experience in software encryption systems, and we realize that this is hard to achieve. The non-adoption and misuse of GPG that Moxie speaks of, the train-wreck of passwords, and so on. It really feels like we've hit a wall, where there are no significant gains to be had unless these design problems are taken seriously. "Perfect" cryptosystems that have major real-world usability flaws are in fact worthless. Implementing new systems of this kind is a waste of effort and a disservice to everyone who vitally needs the services of a robust encryption infrastructure.
But that's the thing though, there is no way any mention of being unusually smart or capable would not have been received by you negatively. We've gotten to the point where we can't honestly acknowledge our strengths without someone feeling slighted by it and then judging us for it. We see it all the time in fact, anyone who is publicly recognized for a great thing they did must show a proper amount of deference and humility, otherwise they are seen as being pompous or full of themselves. This shouldn't be the case.
Traditionally the rules would appear in the Federal Register ( https://www.federalregister.gov ) with a request for comment (check the proposed rules section).
Except there are already VCs in the equation, so any profitability helps them. It also doesn't dilute their shares, and they don't have to decide if they should risk doubling down on the second round.

If I were a VC, this would definitely help validate my investment while requiring a total input of about zero from me. What business gets all the cash up front!!?
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Well, this helps Indian offshoring gaints like Infosys, TCS as they are struggling to find H1s to fill spots onsite. And the thing about Infosys, TCS, Wipro, Cognizant, etc is this: they just need warm bodies onsite for billable hours.

Yes, wages will be depressed in big corp software and IT. To what extent, I don't know.

Top tier talent won't be affected that much: but how many companies need top tier talent? Or how much the top tier talent constitutes US IT/Software market? Maybe, less than 10 percent.
Base32 would be too long, but maybe the equals sign could be elided, yeah.
If you can't even get two machines in the Matrix to talk to each other securely, how can you expect to succeed with human error thrown in the mix?
pretty sure it's not that. color e-paper tech has been in the works for years now
If anything perhaps people can show them how to organize their data better to see where all the duplicated efforts are and reign in some of the spending.

Then maybe if the right data is available we can query all the regulations to find obsolete or weed out all the special interest driven ones
That looks amazing. Why haven't I seen this until now?
Your site is fairly low on information, mind if I ask a few questions?

So this would be a replacement 'watch band' for the Pebble Time, which provides biometric data to it? Your website seems to suggest it'll work with any device, will it still interface with the "smart accessory port" on the Time? Do you have advance information about the protocol/form-factor that the sensors, or are you going to finalize that part of the design once it's available? Also, I'm not sure I understand why it's called "contactless".

Seems very interesting though. It seems most wearables lean either towards "interface for your phone" or "fitness device", so something that boosts the Pebble's biometric tracking could be pretty cool.
Python 2 is the kind of dead that everybody uses.
Note that some of the private sector can't fail now either.
Unfortunately some more Googling has turned up a disappointing result:

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/how-to-change-font-size-in-...

The thread has a recent answer down the bottom.

It amazes me how this has seemingly been such a low priority item for the Unity Editor team for so long. This is a tool that people are expected to live in for an extended amount of time. This problem needs more widespread recognition than it's getting.
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Honestly? Just practice a lot and get people who have some familiarity with Software Engineering/Computer Science to interview you. It's also important that you ask those people to not take it easy on you.

The initial discomfort is necessary if you want to get better at this.
It's worth supporting companies who are using a privacy-centric business model.
Because this is about keeping the power of ISPs in check, which is far easier to do when they only have one set of customers. Give them two (i.e., upstream and downstream) and they're in a position to play one off the other in classic middle-man fashion.
I find the "!g" to perform an anonymous Google search works great, and has very little added effort.
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I agree with this criticism. Making auto-correct optional would help usability a lot.
Technology is more expensive. The projects themselves are more complex and machinery more expensive. You can build an antenna with pocket change that will let you talk to someone on the moon, but you need some serious hardware to talk to something on Mars, let alone further out. Plus the bureaucracy -- the oft-referenced bureaucracy -- is grinding more and more to a halt. It's more expensive from a bureaucratic standpoint, with more layers of management slapped on layers of management. The NASA of the 60s was an entirely different creature. We would do well to try to get that back, but honestly, really I think it's too late for that. I think honestly it's out of the American government's hands what happens in space over the next 50 years, barring another space race with China (fingers crossed). American commercial interests? Maybe. But our government just grinds to a halt when it needs to get anything done.
If the benefits and carryover paid for it, fine. But I doubt it, not now anyway. If it wasn't borrowed money, I'd say throw .5% at at it. But no way when it's borrowed, unless it can be proven beyond doubt that the outcome is net positive.
You probably have fewer tabs open than I do...

The memory usage of CSS sprites (which are implemented as css background images rather than Image objects) was definitely an issue a couple of years back. Inlining the images as base64 data uris seems much better.
> Traditionally the rules would appear in the Federal Register ( https://www.federalregister.gov ) with a request for comment (check the proposed rules section).

No, traditionally -- as a preliminary draft that has not been voted on by the commission considering them -- they would not.

They would only appear in the Federal Register for comment if and when they were adopted by the appropriate decisionmaker (which, in the case of the FCC or similar multimember regulatory commission, is by a vote of the commission) as a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (which is a proposal with a comment period) or an Interim Final Rule with Comment Period (which is an adopted rule which also includes a built in comment period.)

They would also appear in the Federal Register (but not with the intent of soliciting comment) when adopted as a Final Rule, though that does not include a comment period.

Preliminary drafts that have not been adopted by the appropriate decisionmaker (such as proposals that have not yet been voted on by a commission such as the FCC) do not appear in the Federal Register.

The NPRM in the matter under consideration was published in the Federal Register last year [0]. Whatever drafts Wheeler or other commission members have circulated based on the discussion, comments, etc., subsequent to that NPRM are not formally proposed regulations, and would not be expected to be published before being voted on.

[0] https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/07/01/2014-148...
You should install Firebug. It's better than the integrated dev tools in almost all areas.

Really? I uninstalled Firebug not so long ago, having concluded that it offered little added value any more, while measurably, repeatably, and dramatically reducing Firefox's performance. Has either or both of these things changed in the last few months?
> There are now situations (such as in the United States) where merely using GPG puts you on a list of suspicious people.

What's fun: using ssh might be similar.