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I'm super surprised that the fellow who cannot feel pain was able to make it through childhood without very serious injuries. As the article mentioned things as simple and teething would be a very different experience without pain.

I bet this is an issue with an old mainframe used somewhere in the booking system, something that has worked well but is difficult to fix when things go wrong.

I think there is / will be a lot of money to be made trying to solve the problem of software security and reliability. This is obviously an extremely difficult problem, however the number of ancient systems that we currently have interconnected I think more large scale outages like this are inevitable.

Doesn't everyone want work-life balance? I don't think this is something restricted to millennials.

Has anyone found that the registrars for the new TLDs seem very shady? I was trying to register a domain with a new TLD and I could not find a single registrar for this particular TLD that I trusted with my credit card. Some of them had barely working websites with broken links and bad info.

Like I said in the other [1] thread on this topic, I hope that this drives home the need to be using HTTPS everywhere we can be. It would make this kind of wide scale man-in-the-middle attack much harder to pull off and easier for users to detect. If only getting a certificate was an easier (less costly) process.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9353785

Would they be able to block HTTPS traffic if it effectively meant that they were blocking the internet though? I think people would have a bigger problem with that.

I hope that this drives home the need to be using HTTPS everywhere we can be. It would make this kind of wide scale man-in-the-middle attack much harder to pull off and easier for users to detect. If only getting a certificate was an easier (less costly) process.

"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie

A classic, but it has really helped change the way I deal with people.

I'm a Canadian, but this article equally applies to us. I've been waiting for years now for Mazda or Subaru to bring one of their diesel cars to Canada. Now and then you see articles like this [1] in the Canadian press celebrating that we will soon have diesel cars in Canada, but it never seems to happen. I had really high hopes when Mazda announced they were bringing the Skyactive-D to Canada for the end of 2013, but there has been nothing but delays since [2].

I spend some time in Korea for work and always drive diesel rental cars and modern diesels are great. I once almost filled one with gasoline because I didn't even realize it was diesel until a Korean co-worker corrected me.

In the end its probably very good for my pocketbook as I've just kept driving my 10 year old Mazda 3 and waiting for the diesels that never arrive.

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/auto-shows/north-...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/dalebuss/2014/01/09/mazda-delays...

The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. The landed interest, at present, is prevalent; but in process of time, when we approximate to the states and kingdoms of Europe, — when the number of landholders shall be comparatively small, through the various means of trade and manufactures, will not the landed interest be overbalanced in future elections, and unless wisely provided against, what will become of your government? In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability.

-James Madison 1787

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I think delegation or proxying is an important feature in a direct democracy platform that I see missing here. It allows people without the technical expertise to make an informed decision by allowing a trusted third party to make the decision for them.

I believe this would give rise to something like we have today where policiticans collect proxies (votes), however it would be a more ephemeral relationship since people could take their voting rights back if unsatisified or if they felt strongly on an issue. I think this would create a more balanced dynamic then we currently have.

This. I was coming here to write this post. Walled gardens also mean that it is difficult to ensure you are actually using crypto with no backdoor, versus the appearance of using crypto.

Original tweet storm can be found here: http://www.yvoschaap.com/pmarca/

This seems similar to what PayPal was doing in 2002. Its possible or even likely that PayPal's techniques have become stale over time, but they were doing some very advanced fraud detection in their time[1][2].

A really interesting book that detailed how the development of PayPals anti-fraud system came about (among other things) is Founders at Work[3].

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2002-09-30/max-levchin-o...

[2] http://www.quora.com/What-were-the-early-achievements-that-d...

[3] http://www.foundersatwork.com

That is very interesting. I always like to hear counter examples. Have you had any success in turning downloads into revenue? Does the ad model work for your app, or is most of the revenue from in app purchases as in the article?

I think the app store has become much more about marketing now when you are entering with a new app. Most of the built in discovery tools are focused on apps with an existing reputation. Given the volume of apps this makes sense, and helps ensure that users are shown quality apps, however it also places a barrier to entry to newcomers until they can build a reputation that allows this virtuous cycle to take hold.

I would be interested in hearing from any app developers who have managed to break through this cycle recently and the marketing techniques they used.

Interesting thoughts on how spam detection would work in such a system: https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780.....

I feel like most of this is just because OpenSSH has been under development for 15 years rather than any conspiracy. Cryptography moves forward, new algorithms get added, but yet defaults don't get changed.

I'm a little surprised that SSH authentication methods can't be easily disabled using the sshd_config file. Almost all the other security algorithms can be easily tweaked. I thought this article had just made a mistake, but I read over the man page and it appears there is indeed no way to modify this using the config file.

This isn't a protocol weakness. Reading over the SSH RFCs, the server is allowed to specify which algorithms it supports, so this could easily be a OpenSSH configuration option.

It has been my experience that the North American 40 hour work week is also a myth in practice.

Any advice for someone getting started with meditation, or resources you have found helpful?

This was the first thing I tried. Lets see if I can find an unimplemented command. I likewise came up empty handed. Very cool stuff!

Worked fine for me. Firefox, OSX.

My impression was that the decision to spend cash on dividends and share-buyback was due in large part to Carl Icahn.

This sounds very interesting. Any more details?

> More likely, you’re going to be figuring out what it takes to find people who need your services and how to convince them to choose you over someone else.

Does anyone have any experience with this they could share? I've always wanted to get into freelancing, but not knowing how to build a pipeline of work has always held me back.

This reminded me of a quote from The Way of the Gun (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Way_of_the_Gun)

  Longbaugh: These days, they want to be criminals more than they want to commit crime.
  Joe Sarno: Well that's... that's not just crime. That's the way of the world.

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