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I replied to a commenter who asked if there were people who don't think Snowden is a hero. I don't think Snowden is a hero. That's my opinion and that was my reply. The overgrown kindergarteners of HN of course disagree and they have to show it by downvoting.
Although my post did have legitimate reasons for criticizing, I really just meant to poke a little fun at someone who is obviously more dedicated and passionate than the majority.

I meant no harm. You are most probably accomplishing the types of things in the security field that I can only dream about. /me stares off into space, thinking of a day when I might discover a vital 0-day.

Congrats on the discovery!
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>if you find it bland when you do, I can't imagine you listening to it much, and if you don't listen to it much, I'm not sure I trust your appraisal to be accurate

I've heard enough of it to form a decent impression. I don't agree with that kind of argument, otherwise no one would ever be able to criticize any piece of media for any reason.
> this is really the kind of thing they teach on the first day of an introduction to proofs course

It's not definitely taught using constructive logic, nor would the proof be rigorous I guess.

I've just had a look at Isabelle/HOL and would be just as tempted to assume it a feasible task. But then, the amount of code in the example theorem for Eratosthenes' Sieve is quite huge compared to a verbal introduction and some jotted down notes on the black board.
More factored RSA keys, and assorted other considerations
Fortunately for us, there are enough rich misanthropes to not have to worry about the problem. ;)
I agree, I've got a Baofeng UV-5R and while it's not a bad radio overall for the price, it's got the dreaded harmonic issue too. It sounds excellent on the band you're actually trying to transmit on, but I only use it as a backup since I don't want to cause issues on other bands.

I'd say to the prospective new ham, spend just a few more bucks and get an Anytone or Tera radio. They are well made, full featured, and still half the cost of your average Yaesu or Icom radio. Barring that, look for well-kept used gear on eBay or at hamfests, or borrow a good radio from a local ham. There aren't many of us left, but I'd still say everyone knows someone who knows a ham.
At what age do kids tend to start with Scratch?
Who is 'criminal' is fairly arbitrary in many cases. Say you sell some hash to a friend. Legal in some states, can lead to 30 years in some others, generally not a huge crime in the sense of harming others.
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This is just new slave labour, except one had to provide both sustenance and rudimentary housing.
in this case all the funds will most probably be spent on public transportation just to get to "work"

I call it evil, because the policy is not misguided or even dogmatic. Youth unemployment in Europe is staggering. If it wasn't for the desperation of young people it would be even higher. There is growing prevalence of "trash contracts". No health insurance. No retirement fund. no liability to employer. no protection. look up zero hour contracts. The problem isn't with young people.
And then Camoron goes out and basically says: "fuck you". If they got them actual work for minimum wage, I'd call it a bad idea [0].
This is not even wrapped in convincing bs. It's just a shameless exploitation of people actually trying to get out of unemployment. A policy designed to skew the numbers simply by making people not bother registering as unemployed.
It's just abandoning nontrivial portion of society. Evil.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workfare_in_the_United_Kingdo...
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I found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Correctional_Peace_O...

So they lobby to increase prison terms and to "enforce current drug laws". I suppose they should have the right to do that, but it still seems a bit odd to me!
Have you ever read through that list? Most of them don't say it has died they say it is dying. Given the amount of investment, the number of new services, and the publicity it has received over the past 2 years the complete lack of interest from the general public says it probably is.

Will it disappear anytime soon? Not a chance.

Is it past its peak? Did it miss its chance at mainstream success? Quite possibly.
From the site :
"What is the age range for Scratch?
While Scratch is primarily designed for 8 to 16 year olds, it is also used by people of all ages, including younger children with their parents."

We saw children from 6 to 12 come try coding with scratch at our school during a coding for children event
I had the same experience. Typing in BASIC from books/magazines in the mid-1980s and modifying the code after I got it working.

My 7-year-old daughter uses Scratch. My 6-year-old son watches me play code combat and tells me what to do. I explain what I'm doing as I type.
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But how long will they work compared to the right way up? I can imagine that running it on the side will have unequal distribution of forces and thus wear for example.
One question from someone who isn't very well versed in Blockchain technology.

As I understand it, it is potentially possible to attack Blockchain integrity by amassing the majority of computational capacity among the people computing the blockchain.

Who would be computing blockchain changes in the NASDAQ case and what are the implications of this kind of attack for NASDAQ?

Apologies if this is a silly question.
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'Sensible' is a false friend in English for French speakers, and vice versa.
This is a cool idea but it needs an small improvement: algorithms should sort things out that can harm listeners badly. Al least as an option. ;-)
He definitely explained things well and proved he has a deep understanding of the larger situation. I wish more people were so involved and passionate about their field of work.
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The hatred towards "Baby Boomers" appears much more prevalent in the U.S than the UK, certainly.
Except with tasers: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/09/police-federati...
> myths that the most serious types of crime affecting our society are the kinds of violent crimes that police patrolling the streets supposedly fight and that entire poor communities are “high-crime areas.”

...

> An intellectually rigorous system would, for example, study in great detail the connection between hundreds of billions of dollars in financial fraud and tax evasion and millions of easily preventable deaths, not dramatically reduce every year the resources devoted to fighting crime committed by the wealthy.

I'm glad when they said how over-policed some areas are that they also pointed out how we don't police other areas at all and the effect of those other areas, like white-collar crime, are HUGE.

The article stressed injustices based on race and geography. It touched less on differences of injustices based on class. I don't think it mentioned sex at all. Since I applied to volunteer with the Innocence Project -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocence_Project -- I've become much more aware of how what we all know, which is how much more men are targeted and jailed.

I volunteered because after seeing a documentary on the project I felt compelled to do something. The innocent people the project freed spent an average of 13.5 years in jail -- completely 100% innocent. My taxes are paying for the system this piece described.

You can do something to change the system too.

Edit: a quick search for the question below on differences in sex for the same crimes -- "Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2144002, which I found in "Men Sentenced To Longer Prison Terms Than Women For Same Crimes, Study Says" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/men-women-prison-se..., which has links to other research too.
Disagreement is a perfectly valid reason for downvoting someone. You should expect that comments made on political topics are going to get downvoted by people who strongly disagree with you. But moderating your tone and angle of attack on such topics can go a long way towards avoiding them and can even get people who disagree with you to upvote you.

Complaining about downvotes is only going to earn you more of them.
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Thanks to your guide, I didn't have to change a single thing when this news broke. Excellent work!
That is the nicest and most readable typography I've seen for a long-form article on the Web.
I certainly agree there's a rich-get-richer phenomena, but I'm not sure there's evidence that mid-size VCs are disappearing.

The generic phenomena is "preferential attachment", which creates a power-law distribution (nearly indistinguishable from log-normal). It's common for observers to believe there's two categories of size, either big or small. This is the origin of "tipping point" theories. However, in a power-law or log-normal, there is no discontinuity. Observers are distracted by the enormous difference between the biggest and next-biggest that they don't notice the same relationship continues all the way down to the smallest.
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>> Now if this is the future of tv, this will lead inevitably to less diversity. This would be a very sad development.

Debatable, surely. Especially since House of cards on NetFlix was a remake of a BBC drama from 1990 [1]. Suggesting that diversity exists because someone could be bothered to make it, presumably without data-mining. The point is that this diversity is, predictably, not in the mainstream.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_(UK_TV_series)
I don't think they really expect you to want to use it directly. As it says, it's a showcase. But a lot of the technology might make it into other distros in more generic forms.
Dunno if it is only US. I swear i have noticed this with British shows as well.
I completely agree that we overcriminalize things and imprison far too many people in the U.S. I'm 100% on-board with this. It's our shame the way we treat non-violent offenders. A disgrace.

But guys, nothing is ever 100% one way or the other, no matter how much you support it. So you have to look at differing points of view -- unless the objective is just to have a good rant.

Here are the things that come to mind reading this:

- Yep, highest incarceration rates ever. Also violent crime has been dropping to unheard-of lows and the country is safer than it ever has been

- Prisons are not about justice or reform. [insert really long discussion here]. Political systems exist and function for political reasons. Therefore the prison system is made and maintained to keep society together. They don't put the guy who killed you friend in the electric chair because of justice. They do it so you don't kill him yourself, or have a lifelong vendetta against both him and the system.

- This piece is written by a lawyer. Do not expect it to fairly talk about all of the options. It's invective; well-written, emotional, powerful invective. The goal is to make you turn off your brain and feel a certain way. Treat it as such.

- Although this is targeted at lawyers, whatever failings there are? Most likely a result of judges and elected officials -- in other words, the public. If the public wants something, and it wanted harsher sentencing, it gets it. That means changes need to occur with the electorate, not elite legal minds

- If the system is broken, it's broken. Toss out all of that racism stuff, it's a red herring. People shouldn't have their civil rights abused because it's the wrong way to run a country, not because they're a member of an oppressed minority. If you want to win this fight and fix things, toss out every other issue aside from fixing the system. Sure, use various things like incarceration rates among blacks as an argument, but only very carefully. If this is a true problem affecting everybody (and I believe it is), then don't attach yourself to one particular cause or the other. That's just an easy way to lose the discussion.

We desperately need to fix things, but that's only going to happen if we make both impassioned and dispassionate arguments -- and only if we understand the terms at stake. I'm not sure this article helped any, but it damned sure made me angry at how broken things are.
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It is a quote from a book sourced in the article, not a quote from the article itself.
I'm sure there are some disparities in the way men and women are prosecuted and sentenced, but doesn't the bulk of the difference in incarceration by sex come from the difference in criminal behavior by sex?
Then you have the massive recall because using it could kill you.
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> So Drupal, like Oracle, is a consultant's dream.

After 7 years of full-time Drupal, I'm pretty convinced that it's intended to be a wealth extraction tool first and a CMS tool second.

"You can build a website with no code! Impress and sell your boss on it in a day! Get far enough down the road to not be able to back out and then spend the next several years of your life trying to hire insanely expensive developers to write all the code you need to write to make your moderately complex functionality needs actually come to life."
>Programming is like that.

No it's not. Making YouTube videos is like that. Knowing how to do social is like that. Being able to look stuff up on Google is like that. Graphic design is like that. (I'm often amazed by the quality of the graphic design and motion graphics on amateur YouTube channels.)

Knowing how to tell when politicians are lying should be like that, but isn't.

Programming is engineering. Not everyone is an engineer. Not everyone can be an engineer, because a lot of people's minds don't work in an engineery kind of way.

I think it's fine to teach kids Scratch and maybe some Python. But I don't think it has anything to do with effective communication - it's just useful practice for basic logical thinking and problem solving.

The kids who are good at it (maybe 10-15%) and enjoy it (maybe 25-50%) can specialise and do the harder stuff.

In any case I don't expect the Web of 2035 to look much like the Web of today, so there should be no expectation that learning any specific language or system is going to be useful later - any more than it made sense to expect everyone would be using BASIC and CP/M in 2000 when we started seeing computers in schools around 1980.
I do this. The curriculum is all available on github[0].

I think the first semester (Scratch) is really good. Personally I don't like the python and html/css stuff later. The material is quite old fashioned, using terminals and rather dry web pages. It's hard to get kids interested in this after they have spent a few months knocking out colourful and highly interactive games.

0 - https://github.com/CodeClub/scratch-curriculum
The OP should have made it clear that the NYT was quoting a book by Morell. The entire quote is as follows:

“ISIS was one of the terrorist groups that learned from Snowden, and it is clear his actions played a role in the rise of ISIS,” Mr. Morell writes in “The Great War of Our Time,” offering no elaboration.

I think the fact that the NYT editorialised with the comment "offering no elaboration" changes it entirely.
You would be locked in a cell and nobody would hear from you again. You wouldn't be able to communicate your defense to the outside world, you'd be much much worse off.
Every now and then you can hear US number stations kick off there.
> why these 'victories' aren't leading to increased prices

Prices are incredibly increased, from the $0.0001 USD/BTC they used to be on the open markets.

Your statement shows that you completely misunderstand how markets work. Anything that can be predicted about the future, is already "priced in" -- (to the degree that it can be predicted by the best possible predictor and discounting risk. Also discounting any entity's willingness to burn substantial money to temporarily manipulate the market.)

In other words, things about the future that were easily predictable long ago would have changed the price long ago, not waiting until they happen.

And BTC's price did change long ago, incredibly!! More than 1000x change. And if it took you much longer than mid-2011 to predict all these things, then you're just incredibly too slow, and that's why you missed that big price increase.
I know a few Norwegians who have cabins just across the border in Sweden, and they will take an annual road trip to Estonia or Poland or wherever, fill up the car with super-cheap alcohol and take it back to the cabin in Sweden, and then bring the allowed (tiny) quota back to Norway every time they go to the cabin.
Not every prisoner. There are also prisoners awaiting trial, and prisoners held for contempt of court.

In the United States, there are 487,000 incarcerated awaiting trial [1].

[1] http://www.americasquarterly.org/aborn-prisons
Finland's official curriculum will include programming starting next year.

This Reddit thread has good information on that. HTH!

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2ffw1d/program...
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Very nice concept,however I would be happy to filter by genre.
At some point Software Engineering should probably become its own degree (possibly an associates degreee) separate from Computer Science. Similar to how Computer Engineering split off. It's a bit strange that CS is this hodgepodge of computer related fields, training scientists, engineers and operationalists alike.
Having a link to such study would be nice because we actually have no idea how it is calculated.

If they are counting Bill Gates, Larry Ellison... then I'd say most men are winning less than women
Among other things, our murder rate is higher than that of most other western nations. Assuming murder rate is a good proxy for other "valid" crimes (it's hard to hide a body), we would expect to have 5x the incarceration rate of the UK or France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
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I was 10 in 2001 and also did lots of Logo programming. Same thing with institutionalized classes twice a week.

It wasn't what got me into computers, but definitely what got me into coding. I'm thankful every day.
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I'm assuming that they're specifically using the Bitcoin blockchain, not necessarily starting their own from scratch. If they want their own blockchain, then they need to distribute the mining just like Bitcoin has done, or else it defeats the purpose of having a blockchain (i.e., might as well just run their own centralized service without a blockchain). So, assuming they're building on the Bitcoin blockchain, then Bitcoin miners will be computing the blockchain changes and NASDAQ will be participating by issuing special transactions that enable whatever it is that they're building.
It doesn't seem to be a very popular opinion on HN/Reddit/etc. I've noticed a couple other people besides myself, although casting it as hero/villain is a bit of a simplification - I think what he did was reckless and I don't think he's been forthcoming about his motives. I've seen a lot of people downplay the comparison between Snowden's actions and Manning's actions. As I see it, Manning took thousands of sensitive documents that he didn't read and handed them over to Julian Assange, but on the hand Snowden took thousands of sensitive documents that he didn't read and handed them over to Glenn Greenwald. Personally I think the biggest difference is that Manning owned up to what he[1] did, but Snowden washed his hands of all responsibility and insists that any harm that may have come from his actions is the fault of the media, neglecting the fact that he was responsible for the media having those documents to begin with.

Then there's the issue of the reporters he chose to give the documents to, who I think have been sensationalizing the issues in order to milk these documents for as long as possible. If Snowden had stopped at the first document that was released, I'd probably have a different opinion. It seems like just about every release following has been purely about legitimate foreign intelligence operations, with some language thrown in to say "there is no indication as to how many Americans or innocent civilians have been targeted under this program," with the implication that you, your family and loved ones may have been spied on by the NSA. It's a scare tactic to bring in more viewers and more advertising dollars. Every time a news outlet does actually reveal groups actually being targeted (like Russia, China, Al Qaeda, etc.), I tend to think that it's exactly the kind of people I want the NSA to be spying on.

[1] Preemptively: yes, I am aware of the Bradley/Chelsea thing. No, I am not trying to make a statement. At the time that Pvt Manning plead guilty, he was known as Bradley. Now she is known as Chelsea, and it just gets confusing trying to figure out which pronoun to use when referring to events in the past.
This needs some comment on proper usage (locking, isolation, ...) of these to avoid deadlocks (one thread inserts, other updates at the same time, ...). Without this this incomplete and of limited use.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimatvertriebene

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_prisoners_of_war_in_the_...

And also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin

Spoiler: He was not nice to his own people, nor to others.
From your link: "Before Apache 2.4.7, the DH parameter is always set to 1024 bits and is not user configurable. This has been fixed in mod_ssl 2.4.7 that Red Hat has backported into their RHEL 6 Apache 2.2 distribution with httpd-2.2.15-32.el6. Future versions of Apache will automatically select a better value for the DH parameter."

So I suppose he does mean like that.
When I was a child I learned BASIC and LOGO when I was 5-7 years old. I found the skills I acquired in the process helped me with math and english, to the point where I was doing both at a college level by the time I was in 6th grade.

I'm working on a project to "upgrade" classic BASIC versions and make them more interesting to today's children. We have a proof of concept at http://discorunner.com and there's also an introduction to BASIC tutorial on that site targeted toward primary school-age children.
> and would even refuse to co-operate simply to flip them off

Indeed -- the decision on Snowden came around the same time Obama was getting ready to invade Syria.

Putin is a de-facto old-school dictator, but on this he did everything right. I wish he'd completed the job by sneaking Snowden to Ecuador via submarine, but I can understand why he didn't -- he can play that card next time he desperately needs a propaganda boost.
It is pretty obvious that beat merely meant 'mutually exclusive' when he wrote 'opposites'. There is no politically correct conspiracy here.
> You will have the constant whirr of machinery. You will have to plan outings down to the last bottle of O2. You will eat shit food. And you will gaze upon a dim Sun through a dusty porthole

Swap O2 for money and this could describe the life of many city dwellers on Earth. At least you won't have to put up with city traffic!
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