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paulrd··on Ask HN: Alternatives to 1Password
http://upm.sourceforge.net/
paulrd··on Greg LeMond’s New 26 LB. Carbon Fiber Ebike
Darn, I have a laser cutter for sale very cheap - let me know if you ever want / need another one.
paulrd··on MicroG – Re-implementation of proprietary Android apps and libraries
Didn't read the article, but people reading the article might be interested in Termux: https://termux.com/
paulrd··on An Honest Living
This reminds me of Chomsky's critiques of universities' treatment of anti-war and anti Israeli scholarship. I recall him particularly defending Norman Finkelstein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein#Tenure_deni...
paulrd··on Show HN: Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book
I was wondering what you were talking about. What blue boxes? Then I saw the problem. The boxes showed up in Chromium but not Firefox.
paulrd··on WireGuard is submitted for Linux kernel inclusion
How would this compare to ZeroTier? (zerotier.com)
paulrd··on Ian Knot
Somewhat related: How to tie your shoes TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes#...
paulrd··on Ending Bitcoin Support
That website is a fake website. The real one is taler.net. See the discussion in the email list: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/taler/2018-01/msg00009.htm...
paulrd··on How a malicious seed generation website stole $4M
BEWARE: apparently gnutaler.org is a fake website taler.net is the correct one! source: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/taler/2018-01/msg00009.htm...
paulrd··on John Raines, 84, Who Evaded Capture in an FBI Break-In, Dies
Fair enough. You may not see the difference, but one is false and the other is true. My point is that many would disagree with your assessment if only they knew that there was a misquote to begin with. Many who want to put forth a false narrative use these kind of disinformation tactics. If only the mainstream media did not have to resort to such slimy tactics. Wikileaks has a far better record of journalistic integrity. You can rely on a quote as being true at least. How many false stories have been printed by Wikileaks as opposed to the Atlantic? How many retractions?
paulrd··on John Raines, 84, Who Evaded Capture in an FBI Break-In, Dies
This may seem pedantic, but I think your quote of the misquote is wrong. The media have been putting the period / 'full stop' within the quotation marks (not just outside which you have above) which Caitlin Johnstone rightfully calls out as journalistic malpractice. That very few people know the actual quote is testament to the mainstream media's ability to sell a false narrative.

Edit: Why the downvotes?

paulrd··on John Raines, 84, Who Evaded Capture in an FBI Break-In, Dies
Actually that quote is incorrect. It has been widely misquoted by the main stream media for their own propagandistic reasons.

https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-atlantic-commits-malp...

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/930237935680618496

paulrd··on Ask HN: What is your password management solution?
I use Universal Password Manager (UPM). It runs everywhere, syncs to dropbox (or wherever), pretty fast start time even though it's java. Github link: https://github.com/adrian/upm-swing
paulrd··on Blockchains are the new Linux, not the new Internet
Yes, but block chains are also integral to proof-of-stake or general byzantine fault-tolerant consensus algorithms. Do you mind me asking: Do you have a lot invested in Bitcoin?
paulrd··on Blockchains are the new Linux, not the new Internet
Trust isn't a binary relationship. Computer security is hard. I trust people to try their best to not get hacked or not to get kidnapped and tortured, but alas it sometimes happens. I'm surprised no-one has mentioned that the only reason to use a block chain is to achieve byzantine fault tolerance. Casper is trying to solve much the same thing that has already been solved by Tendermint but with different trade-offs (CAP theorem trade-offs).
paulrd··on Go Long on Web Components
Joe Gregorio has a great video presentation that answers some of the questions I see posted here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMWAHzXQnNM

paulrd··on New Draft of “Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Second Edition”
The (mostly) lisp code from the first edition can be found here: https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/code/code.html
paulrd··on New Draft of “Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction, Second Edition”
Wonderful! I took his machine learning coarse at the University of Alberta and we used the first edition in his class - though he didn't make it mandatory to buy his book. In any case, it was well worth the asking price. The math isn't too hard and progresses gently enough. I think the lisp code he wrote for the first edition is online somewhere. I'll have to check his web presence.
paulrd··on AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep
Sometimes super down,down tempo is the way to go for working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVnLon8TvXk
paulrd··on Trojan found in Filezilla downloaded from SourceForge
Yes! I currently still use my apps.google.com account for free.
paulrd··on What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014)
This reminds me of the buggy pic-C compiler standard library I was using. Some functions calls with particular parameters (maybe the printf family) would halt program for no apparent reason.
paulrd··on ForerunnerDB – Lightweight JavaScript Database with Persistence and Data-Binding
I think a lot of projects use sqlite for client side persistence. I know mega (https://mega.co.nz/) did.
paulrd··on The Secret Language of Tennis Champions (2013)
I have friends who are twins. They too are opposite handed. They say it has something to do with sharing the womb (arms touching / pushed together?).
paulrd··on Ask HN: I'm having doubts about LastPass security, what should I switch to?
I've been using UPM (http://upm.sourceforge.net/) for quite a few years. It's portable and full of great features.
paulrd··on US Secretly Built 'Cuban Twitter' To Stir Unrest
Really? Iraq lost 4% (1.45M) of it's population due to the 2003 invasion. What did the Iraqi people get in return for these 500 9/11's?
paulrd··on Gmail was down
It's back up for me.