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I'm pretty tired of sensationalist NSA stories here on HN, as well, but I think you're really wrong here. First of all, it is a factual post, nothing sensationalist. Second, it is obviously …

Rapid Interpretation of EKG's. Really. It's fascinating. You not only learn how to read EKG's (obviously, after reading the book, you're still not qualified to argue with a seasone…

The problem seems to be that he didn't really decide. It's easy to make a quick decision when releasing software that cannot be taken back. And when you're finally realizing your mistak…

France doesn't need to "work against this". If that's the law in France, it trumps the license text. Just as the law trumps any clause requiring the sacrifice of the licensee'…

The TU9 could be a starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TU9 In computer science, Karlsruhe, Aachen and the TU Munich (TU -- there are three universities in Munich) are th…

How do you even achieve this fascinating effect where "m" and "T" (and probably many other characters) don't render, making the web site utterly unreadable? Both IE9 and FF 34…

Not return-ing but just falling through to the closing } is perfectly fine and defined as returning 0.

No, that's deniability (OTR has that property), something very different from PFS. PFS just means you've got session keys that can't be derived from the long lived authentication key.

You can always invent a name (and "light year" is nothing else, just not based on a "round" number of meters). For example, since failure rates in safety engineering are usually pr…

> Germans have six weeks of federally mandated vacation Wrong. Four weeks. But six weeks are pretty standard.

STUFF YOU SHOULD USE POND - https://pond.imperialviolet.org/ Yeah, right. "Dear God, please don't use Pond for anything real yet. I've hammered out nearly 20K lines of …

An exceptionally well written book, I'd like to add. Many authors try to unite casual style with technical writing. Russ Olsen does it beautifully. He never treats you as a child or an idiot. He …

There is a very good reason to think that: the press always gets this wrong. So unless you either have some real knowledge in the field or you've come across Scott Aaronson's writings, you m…

We kind of need Britain, although not absolutely. Switzerland? You're joking, right? Nobody wants to hurt Switzerland, or give them a hard time, but if they turn away, the reaction will mostly be…

It's obvious that it wouldn't work. The EU cannot tell Britain that free movement of people is essential enough to see them leave the Union, but then hand it to Switzerland, just because the…

What about "non-member state" seemed unclear to you?

The EU will not change those treaties, because it has no real reason to. And especially now: How do you refuse something to David Cameron's UK (a big member state), but hand it to Switzerland (a …

Because gold bugs and fiat money. Gold bugs are kind of the more conservative variant of Bitcoin fans.

As we can see with Switzerland, it strenghtens extreme positions. Let me ask you a question: why should people in Northrhine-Westphalia "decide for" people in Bavaria? Shouldn't we diss…

They already have serious problems with the EU, because of the immigration referendum before this one, back in February, I think. They are still scrambling to find a way to reconcile their obligations…

Cool, that's new! For ages there was only 2.0 available. Being a patch release behind is no big deal indeed.

There is no current Windows build of Ruby at all .

My interest in Ruby wanes a bit every time there is a new Ruby release, but no corresponding Windows installer on rubyinstaller.org I really like the language and used to reach for it as a first insti…

"The law just has to change to adapt to our new technical ways" ist a common fallacy with techies. And has been working /splendidly/ for decades now. More importantly, letting ev…

GnuPG scares me. In all kinds of ways. And Werner Koch must be some kind of demi-god.

I've read Ted T'so dismissing the "/dev/urandom for everything camp" somewhere lately. Together with his appearance here on HN, I very much doubt he's going to chang…

Fortuna as option, and slated for being made the default later. That's great.

I'm not so sure. I'm curently thinking about getting a new console (very light/casual gamer). I've got the PS3 mostly for playing Blu-ray and never found a compelling game. The Wii…