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Well, NPR is an American organization, so it's not really surprising that they're writing it with an eye towards their primary demographic (Americans, and to a lesser extent, Europeans) . &g…

> 2) SOFIA's wavelength coverage is different that JWST's or anything else that is in the pipeline. Depending on what you mean by "pipeline", that isn't quite true. Work is…

At wavelengths which they both observe (~1–28.5 microns; SOFIA goes out to longer wavelengths than JWST), JWST will be far superior in terms of both sensitivity and resolution. For one, the mirror on …

> I think if people want to hide stuff like revenge porn, or obvious slander, then fair enough. But unindexing legitimate journalism is stupid. The difficulty with following that logic is in the bl…

See significant previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7970993

Another option is a 2-column layout (for non-mobile devices). The normal front page on the left, with the blast of new articles in the right column. Perhaps for mobile devices the new articles could g…

> I don't expect much to come from rewarding failure. What about adequately supporting developers who have provided a product used by a huge number of people? Yes, they've had failures an…

> Is it because they have a presence in the US That is essentially it.

I'm not really sure how that information relates to the article posted. Could you please elaborate on how it is relevant?

As the reference manual[0] notes, this is just Brainfuck[1] but with a different set of characters for the operations. [0] http://yolang.org/reference [1] https://en.wikipe…

Just this past week, the German government announced they would be canceling a contract with Verizon, as a result of the revelations of spying[0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

There is some free software available[0] to do stylometry analysis. And some software which purports to assist in anonymizing writings[1]. I've not really played around with either, so I can'…

My guess is someone posted this link after seeing the LWN piece linked on HN.

I agree with mooism2. Also, viewing security as a cost-benefit tradeoff, it seems the usability penalty for not alerting people that caps lock is on is much larger than any security benefit.

Correct, the push notification aspect is dependent on Google Play Serices (in both the stand-alone app and the CM SMS integration). But sending encrypted SMS messages works without Google Play, so the…

I have been running this setup (Cyanogenmod + f-droid, no google apps) for the past 9 months and have been quite happy. I use owncloud for keeping my calendar, contacts, and files sync'ed. K9mail…

> Why then, do all the major OSs warn you when you've turned caps lock on while you're trying to login? It's not clear to me that this is a security issue or that it reveals any info…

They did make a point of explicitly saying none of the data is shared with Google. But, yeah, probably best for fit PR to differentiate.

I'm not sure it's a fundamental mistake. To make a counter-argument, if one travels back to some point in time, but can't remember (or don't know[0]) exactly when a major event hap…

It's probably best to link to the original source for this: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

Another option with respect to publishing is to post it to arXiv.org (if the field of interest is represented there). It's not necessarily considered a publication, but it at least gets the idea …

Sounds like a good project idea... TOSdiff.