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You know what a good solution to that? Constant cost for @mentions. Each one costs you two characters.

While you are at it, urls cost you 5. Images cost you 10.

Removes the benefit of shorter twitter handles, longer twitter handles doesn't fuck up what you are trying to say and, you can talk to multiple people in the same tweet.

Personally I really think that encryption is a matter of second amendment and in the day of knowledge and communication the right to bear encryption should fall under the second amendment. Hell, the US even classifies encryption as a munition. We should be using the same argument for encryption that we are using for the right to own guns and form militias.

I wonder if the encryption will be recognized as a right under the second amendment by the court if it goes to that.

Ahh, the people who can't read. It says magic+ is paid, magic is free.

Also, pretty sure a service like this doesn't give a shit what the website says. If you are reading the website, it's either not for you or you have an interest in tech news and the exact pricing structure doesn't matter to you anyway.

Pretty sure this service doesn't need to advertise.

$200,000 isn't even 5% in SF. The fact is that there are a lot of rich people and I am sure this service provides an amazing utility for them. No need to be jealous. I am sure they don't need to advertise on HN, it's more of a look this too exists.

If that is so, then we have already lost. No firearm held by the citizens can compete with the firepower of the military of today.

The spirit of the amendment may have been in the right place and surely worked when the constitution was written but we live in a very different world now and if you still think the an armed citizenry will avoid tyranny, you need to go to youtube and see what the military can now do.

Well, you are right.

Most arguments are I support A, and the opposition is I oppose A. Somehow GG is different, it's I support A, and the other side is fuck your A, I support B ,when they don't actually have any problem with A. The first side then responds with, no fuck your B, A all the way. It's mind boggling, it can just as easily be we support A & B.

And that bring us to this post, it has nothing to do with GG. Its simple harassment and the core community handled it poorly. It looks like a good case of lack of precedent on how to handle it.

Earlier harassment used to of the "your mother is fat type" or "shut up you fukin brit" because people didn't have much to go on. Now as diversity increases people have more difference that can be attacked and those differences are very personal and hence affects a person on a deeper level. It's a classical case of school bullying, just that no one here is in school anymore, some people just don't grow up.

Once self regulating communities (those without HR departments) figure out how to handle these cases the right way, which I believe they will, these events should have a quick end.

I absolutely agree that every society should be able to provide a welcoming and safe environment for every person. But do you think that a safe space is the best way to do it? I may be wrong, but it looks like a exclusionary step that most societies have fought hard to remove.

The way I understand it, safe space is not only a place where people can a particular group of people are "protected" but also a place where idea can grow without any challenge or even merit. Do you think that is a good idea? I may be totally wrong about what a safe space is, but this is the impression I have got till now.

How the hell is gamergate about the "right" to threaten? No one who isn't a troll will argue that anyone has that right. What do games have to do with the right to threaten?

No one has the "right" to threaten someone's safety. That right simply doesn't exist. No form of free speech rules grant such "right".

For all the hate in GG, it's a anonymous/pseudo anonymous mob on the internet. It seems hate is the default language of the louder minority. Somehow, not surprising really, the loudest people are also the worst.

On the pro-GG side, look at the supposedly pro-gg websites that have sprung up that sell things or review things basically do everything that they are saying the current status quo is doing wrongly or unethically.

On the anti-GG side, look at how much the leaders are charging for talks related to inclusion issues, something that they want to help spread. I am not saying they should run a charity (which they actually do from what I remember, literally run a NPO), but at some points it just looks like they are doing it for the money. The talks are weird, after seeing them, they looked like more about the person giving the talk and less about the actual issue at hand.

Every Time things quiet down another shitshow start from nowhere. It's like a massive online bait. If things keep going, the people making money keep making money.

If you look at it from an outside perspective, both sides are right. There are huge inclusion issues in gaming. Actually there are huge inclusion issue in almost everything, not sure what makes computer games special. On the other side, there are certainly ethics issue in game media. But then there are ethics issue in every media. Not sure what makes game media special. So now the question why all the fight, especially when both sides are fighting for different things. Both sides are obviously right. The only reason I can think of it is, and it's actually pretty evident, that people have found ways to make money out of it and they rile up the crowd every time things calm down to ensure the money keeps coming in.

If both the sides worked on this together both of their problems can be solved mutually, but I am not sure why that is not happening. It's like they don't want to work together. I am sure the people smart enough to figure out how to control this also know that neither side is the picture they have painted, so if they actually wanted to solve this, they can easily do it.

Not every bitcoin client needs to carry the whole blockchain for bitcoin to work.

I am not claiming that owncloud is shoddy, I am just refuting the claim that somehow hosting your own server makes you a smaller target and somehow safer. Every code base eventually has security problems, sometime a big as heartbleed. If you are Amazon, you get a preferential disclosure and patches before it is publicly revealed. If you are John Doe, you better hope that you read the cve as soon as it's published and that you can patch the server right then.

No. 2 is not right. For fingerprintable service with known exploits, dragnet type attacks are very common. If the GP is right about OwnCloud having a poorly written code base then you have a very high chance of getting hacked unless you can stay on top of updates, which is unlikely for most people.

If your data is important enough that it needs to stay on self hosted machine, you should look at commercial solutions. Otherwise use dropbox/gdrive/s3 with self encrypted files.

Permanent IP blocks rarely target particular person and rather target IP ranges to ban whole regions, people cannot easily spoof their IP range, unless they use a VPN (or similar service) which in most cases is a high enough barrier that if it can be crossed, most other barriers can be crossed too.

Temporary IP blocks just work to block that person for that session (in sense of time) in cases where login is not required or can easily be created (like wikipedia). In most cases the people are incapable (through willingness or technical restriction) of changing their IP address and they move on. Short term IP blocks work wonderfully for this.

At least for services like wikipedia which do not require registration for making changes, (which is a great usp), temp IP bans are the best and possibly only solution except for browser fingerprinting.

Other services that require an account creation, like twitter can easily block users and require something like a phone number for known problematic IPs. As can be seen here.

- There might be a bigger uproar if they started doing this than twitter asking for a phone number if you are on a blacklisted IP.

There was an article somewhere, which recommended installing vmware tools on a non-vm OS, just because virus/malicious payloads will detect it, think it's a honeypot vm and shred itself so as not to get discovered. It's a nice way to protect yourself from payloads that may otherwise have executed and be invisible in honeypots.

It better for everyone if honeypots and normal systems looks as similar as possible.

So you are ok with 1* million(x) CO2 pollution deaths per year and 6 million(y) other pollution death per year?

*- Move the x as you want, and set y as (7 - x) million.

1. Why are the number of turing machines finite.

2. But to simulate a single step of the turing machine, you will have to simulate this turing machine too, so what you will end up doing is recursively simulating the first step of this machine to infinity.

3. Why do you assume all the programs in the world are turing computable.

Does this set of all turing machines contain the given turing machine? If yes, then it would seem that you can never simulate even a single iteration of the inner loop. If no, then you are not actually simulating all the programs are you?

This goes a little beyond NP hard complexity, I believe.

It requires a bundled by default, Google Music app. If you disable or delete it, the media keys will stop working. Here is the download link for the app :

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-play-music/...

I know ubuntu, osx and windows 7 phone home for certains scenarios. Until you are running some *BSD box, you aren't getting that "zero invasion of privacy", you just think you are.

But it still doesn't validate the need for a clickbait title or a highly inflammatory article. Say it how it is... no better or worse.

Oh, do you mean like the massive target for abuse and attack that are password managers?

Because "correlation is not causation" is just plain wrong. What is should be is "correlation does not imply causation". This is where science comes in. To answer the question, is this correlation because of causation?

The statement is only important to people doing statistical analysis not experimental science.

Doesn't work when chromecasting.

The ideal answer is a zero knowledge exchange. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof

But tptacek obviously knows what he is talking about.

Uber can just deduct it from whatever they pay them weekly. It's not like every ride is now a cash ride.

Both cash and digital exists in india. Bitcoin will find it even harder to grow in india than in first world countries because a large part of the population are not comfortable with using technology.

India already does. For that fact mobile and card payment is a lot better executed than in USA. The difference is that it's a more recent happening and that is why they could learn from the mistakes of others and improve things. The problem is that a large part of the population grew up using cash and are more comfortable with it than with any form of mobile/card payment. The younger generation will prefer cashless transactions but being cashless only will leave a large part of the market alienated.

It's fine to react drastically when you don't know what you are dealing with. Their first react was correct. Everything after it was confirmed that it was an innocent clock was wrong. That is the part where I think racism is playing it role.