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It may also be expected that the symptoms of the patients infected via facal-oral or conjunctival route will be lighter than those infected intranasally.

That seems like the hypothesis they suggest. Interesting implications.

It completely makes my day that the solver is on HN.

William Gibson had something like this in one of his later books. Spook Country maybe? As I recall it was simply called the Ugly Shirt.

I just ran through this - works flawlessly. One peculiarity that might help someone else in my shoes: I was connecting to my VPN node through Terminal (with Solarized Dark) on OS X and generating the QR code with the suggested command but the result was a little 'off' somehow and didn't read as a QR code to my phone. By replacing 'ansiutf8' with simply 'ansi' I was able to get a smoother, readable QR code. Just a heads up in case someone else follows this excellent guide and gets the same issue - I fully blame Solarized ;)

Someone skin this to mimic 'Dark City'! Complete with signs to Shell Beach...

Somewhere (possibly Reddit?) I learned about the unlabeled mute button for gas station TV ads. For certain pumps there are two rows of five or six unlabeled white buttons on the left and right of the screen - pressing the second button from the top on the right hand side of the screen mutes the blaring advertisement for me about 50% of the time. The times it works is pure bliss. YMMV but it's worth a try.

John Gaughan, an American manufacturer of equipment for magicians based in Los Angeles, spent $120,000 building his own version of Kempelen's machine over a five-year period from 1984.[62] The machine uses the original chessboard, which was stored separately from the original Turk and was not destroyed in the fire. The first public display of Gaughan's Turk was in November 1989 at a history of magic conference. The machine was presented much as Kempelen presented the original, except that the opponent was replaced by a computer running a chess program.[63]

That is a wonderful detail. I like the irony.

I bought an iPhone SE when it came out. It's the perfect phone in my opinion. I am fully prepared to use it until it falls apart and it's so well built I think it may take a while.

Nothing they released after it makes sense to me. Too big and they deleted features I want while adding nothing useful to me. I wasn't expecting an SE2 so I wasn't disappointed when it failed to appear.

This iPhone and my MacBook Pro 2015 are the last Apple products I'll expect I'll ever own. Not out of spite but because they no longer make things I need, or even want.

Wow! Anyone else reminded of the gargoyle rig from Snow Crash?

I went from "probably vaporware" to "I should look into buying one of these" just from looking through this teardown.

This is very cool but unfortunately it looks a bit rough in Solarized Dark since some of the output defaults to black text.

Suggestion: configurable text colors. You already have a config file. I may try to hack it together myself later - if I get it working I'll make a PR.

Overall though this is a cool idea and looks very well executed. Nice work!

I would love to see the terms for that emergency 5 million in cash. Probably eye-watering interest rates.

Hell, even major freelance marketplaces try to track your every billed second by taking screenshots of your desktop or webcam "just to make sure you're working".

Well that's some dystopian nightmare stuff I had no idea was happening.

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For a good perspective on this see Ken Burns' documentary series about the creation of the national parks. It will open your eyes to the constant battle the parks face from commercial enterprises, and explains why the parks are such a unique system that should be protected at all costs.

Looks like plenty of opportunities for more installation pieces like this: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/us/28piano.html

I had a very similar experience. I heard about Loopt on here when they first launched. It seemed really interesting and I wanted to sign up but it was only for Boost Mobile at the time, which neither I nor any of my friends used.

I just shrugged and closed the tab.

She's never explicitly named; the only thing that gives her away is a single phrase: "chiseled spam"

I love literary Easter eggs like that.

Anyone tried a Turing test on Siri yet? She'd fail the first time she tried to call someone or do a web search, but if you could head her off before she can try to do anything but answer it might be quite convincing.

Long live the first Knight of the Lambda Calculus!

For one who works with HFT systems, an extremely refreshing clarification.

Though I do get a chuckle out of the extremely bombastic stories ("MAN OBSOLETE? COMPUTERS TAKING OVER!!!"), it's nice to see the record set straight. Sadly this will get 1/10000th of the page views of the garbage articles it dissects.

Seconded, this is truly awful. Navigating the map instantly becomes a chore.

Anecdotal rebuttal:

The soldiers I've met and interacted with are among the most varied group of people I can imagine that all do the same basic job. They show more inherent variance than any other profession I've ever seen. I concur completely with the Atlantic's letter, and sincerely doubt it was a PR plant.

Just my .02.

I saw a wonderful talk at HOPE 6 concerning Project Gutenberg, and can only assume it was Michael Hart speaking. It made me donate on the spot.

As a staunch supporter of paper books I don't often read eBooks, but I can completely understand and appreciate what an immense resource they are to those less fortunate (and picky about their medium!) than I am. Rest in Peace, Mr. Hart. Your legacy will live for years and years to come.

Serious question: After this rash of hacks, is there a cert issuer people still trust? And if so, why?

Cryptography for which the attacker has no key is a much greater impediment to remote PIP injection than it is to a local eavesdropper. This is because the attacker needs to know both the cryptographic key and the counter or nonce. In the case of a known key and nonce, an attacker could conceivably work backward to product a block which, once encrypted, contains a PIP. The exact procedure for doing so depends upon the presence of numerous cryptographic mistakes by the vector protocol and is beyond the scope of this paper

This is amazing. I'd love to see someone pull this off.

What do you suppose is the street value of the keys to 4 CAs?

Unless you are making a point I can't understand, I think you mean "posterity" instead of "prosperity."

I'm not at all advocating Cisco's behavior (it's very unethical and likely criminal as well) but I think suggesting someone murder a Cisco exec over this is, um, a tad harsh.

Got it in 1. MBTA is 8 billion dollars in debt. They are the MA poster child for "too big too fail."

Just be glad you don't work on high-frequency trading systems if "tenths of a second" seems like a frustratingly small gain. Our office erupts into cheers when we shave a microsecond or even 500 nanoseconds off our loop times. :)

The whole company still fits in one conference room, so we all eat together. Unless something is broken, in which case people tend to scurry back to their desks after the food shows up.