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They could block whole domains, which https doesn't change.

The only time it makes a difference is if you want to block part of a domain and not other parts. I can think of some use cases (block Google unsafe search, but not safesearch), but generally they just block the whole domain and have a separate domain for the "good" part. (See http://www.safesearchkids.com/, for example.)

And it's not like this isn't the same situation now. Whatever would be possible then would also be possible now, just by using https. This is just making http harder to use.
> He's trying to claim that the watch interface isn't sharp. I don't know if that's true or not

It's almost certainly not. According to https://www.apple.com/watch/technology/ it has a Retina display, and I don't think I've heard anyone complaining about a Retina iPhone's grainy, unpleasant screen.
Tangential thought: is there a sane physical upper limit to power storage/generation in a given space (say, 1cc)? Sometimes helps to bracket the question to predict what's possible & reasonable. (Comparable ex.: total maximum possible solar energy capture is 1367 watts/m^2; circumstances will limit that around 10%)
Or just supress it, for some methods you might want to return a null value/"null object"/bool rather than have an exception cascade up the chain and risk crashing the application. I think Exceptions are a bit problematic as a concept but then again so are null values :)

An easy example are checking if a file exists under Windows 8, it's partly a product of the currently deficient API's but the fastest way to check if a file exists is to try to get it and catch the exception, and you'd want to return bool from a FileExists method
This weekend I tried to bring in boost format. I tried to bring in JUST format, but nope... exceptions, and config, and a bunch of other stuff... Fifteen libraries, maybe?
It's been around since <2003, so it's hardly new. It's primary purpose was a high performance scripting language for game engines.

That being said I agree with you wrt new semantics and I would love to see a practical programming language that has dependent types.
If you live near a river/stream, depending on the depth, flow and head (gradient drop) you can also use that for power generation. If it's not that deep, it'll only be useful for this in months where it's not frozen solid, but if it's deeper, then you'll still have flow under the ice to drive your turbine. In the winter however, wind tends to be more prevalent, so you can use a wind turbine to generate more power.

Of course, all this is reliant on knowledge of the local geography and climate before you purchase and get set up. If you're limited to where you are right now, you're kind of stuck with what you can put on your property right now. Which could be as limited as running on-grid but growing your own food.
The article misses geothermal energy, which doesn't exactly require an existing industrialized society to use while providing abundant thermal energy. Places like Iceland, Yellowstone, Hawaii, etc. could easily become Humanity v2's centers of industrial reconstruction.
The fundamental premise that we're running out of fossil fuels is false.

Let the palaver begin...
It's fascinating to think of Shakespeare reading Don Quixote and adapting a story from it for one of his later plays.

I knew that Shakespeare and Cervantes had died within 10 days of each other but was surprised to find out that Cervantes lived to 68 while Shakespeare was only 52.
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The person who truly cares about typography, or even uploading and using their own fonts, will not buy the Kindle in the first place.

Kobo has already had those features for years now.

As it happens, I didn't buy my Kobo Aura H2O for that reason. I bought it for the microSD card slot, the frontlight, the ability to move documents to and from the device on my own terms, and the ability to read EPUBs without a pass through Calibre first. The water resistance is a nice plus.

I'm all for making the Kobo the best reading device ever, but so far, after the first 40 books, I haven't been able to come up with anything I might want to change about the hardware.

The Kobo in-device bookstore and computer sync software, on the other hand, could use some more work. Fortunately for me, I don't ever have to use either of those things to enjoy the full use of my hardware device.

Even if Amazon has 70% of the market share, they can't afford to ignore features that their remaining competitors have.
Yup, because I took 0.2 seconds to actually grep /usr/dict/words for "gnu" just recently.
Nice interview. Despite two occurences of the word "straightforward", the guy explains his reasonings in a friendly and accessible way.
my chrome is happy with your domain and is showing a green bar.

SSL Labs agrees with that assessment, though you could enable PFS for a better rank:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=healthlabs.co...

I don't have a Chrome OS to test with, but I'd say this is not your fault. Now of course, going to the customer and saying that a random stranger on the internet told you that it's ok is probably not going to impress anybody :-)
Oh. That is a very different question.

By the way, the word is spelled happiness.

I did not see anything particularly funny in any of the photos in the home page, for starters. The quote on the right was cut-off for me. Don't expect more than 1280 pixel wide.

I agree that the wording appears to be lacking. It looks like a perfect case for A/B testing, too.

Here's an idea: show them one funny photo with a "Next" button. After they hit next three times or so, put up the email sign-up. All the text you need is "Funny Photos via email."

How do you sign up for the emails!? Did I miss something? If I did, almost all other folks will, too. Also, lose the link to classroom.ng - too confusing. Move it to the bottom of the page.
/r/GameOfThrones has 484k subscribers. /r/HouseOfCards has 50k subscribers. These are not "small communities" and there's no reason that there should be 9.5x more interest in GoT than HoC; they're both gritty political thrillers and HoC usually has more episodes per season than GoT. I posit that the GoT sub is much more active because the way that HBO releases content makes communal watching and discussion much easier -- you don't have to worry about trying to coordinate episode watching times between 500k people, and people who can't make the official air time can avoid for 1-2 days before they find time and can get caught up.
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New Everyone Cyberattacks: What's to Be Done?

Four things, each with their own time horizon and in parallel.

1. Norms for cyber warfare and international cyber activity to be developed. (The US may not be able to lead this post-Snowden, but they should try and should be involved.)

2. Cooperation on international standards, development and funding in cyberspace to improve and prove the security of networks, protocols, hardware and software.

3. Deescalation of cyber capabilities and activities. These exercises can be expressed in many ways such as 'cyber-free days' where nations show their good intentions by withholding operations in good faith.

4. International investment, development, data sharing and standardization of forensics capabilities to squeeze the attribution problem. This may be done in lockstep with protocol development.

But at its root there are three reasons nations hack one another: intelligence, intellectual property, sabotage.

Whatever deterrents and legal frameworks are in place will need to be as or more compelling than the motivations for cyberactivity. Whatever can be done to limit what can be gained by intelligence, sabotage and IP theft will in turn limit cyber activity. So a fifth item would be to reexamine and double down on the international peace keeping frameworks that discourage the listed above.
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Or still shown after they are no longer on the show. I've considered cutting my videos to exclude the intro but it's not an exact science and sometimes the intro is different and I don't want to miss that. In the end most intros are not long enough to worry about cutting (though GoT is LONG). If it's long I can just FF through.
To put it more precisely: it functions as a watch, but the design is not meant to status-signal through the traditional means by which watches status-signal. Apple don't care about "big for the sake of big" (more like "remove until you can't remove any more"); Apple don't care about leather that looks like artisanal leather with stitching et al, just that the material has the physical properties (e.g. sweat absorption) of leather while still having all the features they promised.

Effectively, Apple is trying to replace traditional watch status-signalling with more smartphone-esque status-signalling, where a product looks more expensive the more like a mysterious featureless glowing glass bead it manages to seem.
From the site:

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CDNs are already mandatory for big sites and have been for a decade or more. There's just no other way to scale and keep a handle on costs. If you don't use a CDN, you'll get murdered by transit costs (Netflix learned this the hard way before they built OpenConnect -- an in-house CDN).
Thanks!

I can honestly say I had not heard about AutoFixture until today. Haha.

They look similar. The only difference I can really see is that I prefer my syntax a little better for type fixtures:

.For<string>("whatever");
vs
fixture.TypeMappings[typeof(string)] = s => "whatever";

I also allow a seed to be set for ensure "consistent random data".

But there are some features of AutoFixture that I definitely want to look at.

I created Fibber more for mocking data sources when I was creating Web Api services; and AutoPoco was just too much configuration. Unit testing was not the main purpose of the library.
Best practice would be to use an HSM to store the key. It provides the usability benefits of an unencrypted private key with strong guarantees about the security of that key.

It's worth noting that the security benefits of encrypting the private key are limited in most cases. Whenever the server restarts, the private key is decrypted and stored in memory, so an attacker who can exploit your web server would be able to access it anyway. Some attackers might not be able to access memory (e.g. exploits in a web application), but in that case you should be able to use standard file permissions to protect the key.

Encrypting the key would have more benefit if you are planning to store it in places other than the server it is used on, and/or transfer it across a network. In that case, it's probably best to carefully consider your threat model and security requirements, rather than solely relying on the default encryption provided by OpenSSL. For example - do you have the discipline do use a strong, unique passphrase on that key? If not, encrypting the key doesn't provide much protection against a determined attacker. Is stretching performed to slow down a brute force attacker? And so on...
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Mostly, just for fun, I think. In a way, it's sort of a role-play, with all the different 'factions' on /r/thebutton collectively assigning meaning (in the form of mock religions) to the button itself. I don't think "screaming" is really the vibe- it's playful, because in the absence of any real meaning, any meaning for what a "player" chooses to do (not click, click, click at a certain time) can be almost completely made up.

Look at it like a very simple role-playing game. When you play D&D, your roleplay has to fall within the constructs of the world and the story. In the 'game' of /r/thebutton, though, the only actual 'story elements' are the button, the timer, and the flairs.

I dunno. Mostly, it's just fun, I think.
> I don't think volunteering to fight in the Army as a teenager reflects negatively on his character.

I believe criticisms were leveled at him mostly for not disclosing that he served in the SS until 60 years after the fact (despite Nazi criticism being a common theme in his writing).
Here's a longer description of the research methodology:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/13/shakespeare...

As much as I would like this to be true, I'm extremely skeptical of any claims to have "proven" something via a method like text analysis. There's just too much room for selection bias (i.e., did they apply their methodology to every play written between 1550 and 1620 to see how many false positives it resulted in? What if the use of function words in the Shakespeare corpus was less distinctive than they imagine?) Though to be fair, I think that language like "proven" is being added by journalists interpreting the study rather than the authors themselves. It's certainly an interesting lead for future research into the provenance of the play, at any rate.
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Rounded corners are a defining element of virtually every product made by Apple since they set their design trajectory with the Cube.

As as aside, for a product commonly chalked up as a misfire, the Cube has got to be the single most successful, influential "failure" in living memory. Indeed, it marks the point where Jobs and Ive truly clicked. Since then, Apple spun the world's most valuable company out of their combined vision, which has proliferated wildly since making its public debut in that unprecedented machine.

It was kind of like a concept car, but one that Apple actually shipped.
I think you mean fissile instead of fissionable [1]. Current reactor technologies consume a very small fraction of fissionable material. Reactors discharge nearly as much fissionable material as they take in. And the lifetime of uranium resource is highly dependent on the price you are willing to pay. Seawater contains enough uranium to supply all reactors in the world at current consumption rates for ~60,000 years [2] estimated to only be about 8x the current spot price [3]. Using fast reactor technology that has already been developed and researched heavily could also stretch the resource by another factor of 100X or more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fissile_material#Fissile_vs_fi...

[2] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-glob...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium#Seawater
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Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9362307
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Allman > OTB

/s

Not everybody likes OTB though, honestly.
Not always - some "unsafe" cipher combinations it will simply refuse to load with no workaround. Though you usually only see this on dodgy IoT gadgets out of China/Korea.
I know Reddit and subreddits fairly well - most subscribers to a sub are silent and passive. 50k is a small community. Stacked against the whole of the viewerbase, 50k is even smaller a community. I posit that GoT is much more active because the show draws on a hugely engaging series of books that has been building a fanbase for a decade - an excellent reason for an 8x difference in size.

Bluntly, you're not making a compelling argument for taking flexibility away from the silent majority that watches and doesn't aggressively engage in public discussion. You're arguing from a position where the putative needs of that minority is the only thing that matters.
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Some island countries experience daily outages of power, actually. It winds up being pretty easy to work around when you've planned to expect it (this includes things like backup power sources and so forth).
Well I guess LearnBoost,whatever it was, was "acquired" by Automattic.
Canada's economy is a disaster from low oil prices
AFAIK "cheaters" are just people who used Javascript to defeat the client-side validation and try to click the button more than once. Those extra clicks get caught by additional server-side checks.
I'm sure he took it with an iPhone 6 cause that's the phone he has but it also looks like higher than usual ISO probably due to bad lighting.

The bigger issue is think about how close you would have to hold the watch up to your face to make it that big in real life. If you did that you'd be able to see the pixels but you wouldn't hold it that close.

http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/hodinkee-apple-watch-review has much better real life shots that mirror what I saw at the Apple store.
The bezel, the hairs on the guy's arm, and the knurling on the knob are in clear focus. Only the screen looks fuzzy. It's not a photograph problem.
Anyone ever read "A World Made by Hand" by Kunstler? He looked at this kind of thing back during the peak oil scare in 2008. It's not a happy book.
as a child of the early oughts, having the CEO of Time Warner extol about having the most pirated show in the world -- not to mention explicitly stating it leads to more subscribers -- is almost jaw dropping.
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Outside of China, using Google Adsense or Analytics won't make your website visitors the unwitting participants in cyberwarfare. Using Baidu ads or analytics, your website visitors can and will be used by China to attack a website of their choosing.
The question is fundamental to all kinds of recognition: recognizing the invariants of the scene, the data that distinguishes it from other scenes, which is very close to the definition of Shannon information.

For example, if you can extract a 'Mesh' from a 2D picture, you can generate many other view points, and that mesh can be considered a good representation. If you are more sophisticated however (and perhaps have a larger "dictionary"), you can instead extract 'There are two wooden chairs 1m from each other, ...'.

That's the sense in which the representation is fundamental to computer vision -- it distills what the system knows (or what it wants to know) about scenes. The more concise the representation without loss of information the smarter your system is (and past a point becomes a general AI problem).
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Yes. The author of the article is barging through an open door: It's very likely that those Game of Thrones episodes had individual hidden watermarking, and that using those they can tell exactly who leaked it.

The author jumped to the conclusion that those don't exist, apparently because they aren't visible (but that's the point!) and that there is a visible watermark which the author apparently assumed was the only one (but it almost certainly isn't).
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What is the point? If you need a secure connection then use https, if there is no value securing the connection then use http. Why deprecate a working technology that continues to have many valid use cases?

As an analogy this strikes me as deprecating an array for a linked list because a list has certain features that array's don't. Ie. there is a time and place for both.
I just tried one on a few minutes ago. It's bright, sharp, large, responsive, ...just right. While the author is spending time complaining about the leather being so good it's in an uncanny valley of feeling wrong (akin to e-book naysayers complaining about missing the smell of old paper), I'm amazed at how far advanced the core functionality & responsiveness (what you're actually paying for) is beyond other smartwatches.

Perfect? maybe not. But way better than anything else out there.
I'm curious about this thought. I wonder if in the post-automation economy, people like you will simply be out of a job. I run a small engineering team and would gladly have them be 100% remote if our current circumstances didn't require a certain amount of on-site work.

Do you lack the motivation to do the work, or do you just not like working at all? Would you work on side projects in your spare time if you could, or do your creative juices only flow at the office?

I worked for 10+ years as an engineer in a traditional office environment. Working from home in my current gig has been eye-opening for me. My productivity is through the roof compared to how I used to be. You'd have to pay me a lot of money to make me want to go back to working in an office again.
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Hindsight is 20/20. Grass likely joined the SS as he'd been drafted to do labor (and IIRC the Nazis weren't nice to those who tried to draft-dodge). He didn't fire a shot, committed no atrocities, and went on to criticize Nazi and bourgeois culture. Dismissing the poem as antisemitic without explaining how it's antisemitic is just a lazy, cheap shot.
I would agree with that idea. The bag of nuts may represent the issues he has concerned himself with over the years or they may be future issues in need of a solution. Grass has always been very outspoken, very political and, more often than not, provocative. I believe he is writing about his legacy. He is convinced that his works will outlast him and that he will continue to have an impact through them even after this death. One could even go a step further and argue that he is saying his works are him (or at least his essence) and therefore he will continue to live on. The sounds coming from the grave may either represent the cracking of nuts, meaning solving the issue or they may represent the sound of fighting over said issues stimulated by Grass' ideas.
I think easing the setup of personal/enterprise CAs would be hugely useful to gaining adoption. Imagine a CA hosted by Google or the like that's tied your personal or business account where you can authenticate certs. Trusted if it's your own (or vouched by a trusted second party).
Good point, but it's a little different. It works well for fish with well-defined fisheries in territorial waters, but it doesn't work for open ocean species. Bluefin tuna in particular is an example. They often cross oceans to get to breeding grounds, and that water is totally unregulated. It can be fished without regulation or reprisal.
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