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And, just to go back to patio11's article[1] "replace OpenSSL for free" is something that Tarsnap could afford to do as a company, and might make business sense, if it were substan…

I've seen people not know who "pg" is, so...

The one weak point of the landing page is that it didn't indicate who was not affected. I read to the bottom of the announcement and had to think a while on whether I had to update…

Usually the algorithm is described in another document without several expressions & lines. "Readability" in some of these contexts means verifying that you've correctly typed in t…

You're right, thanks. But C-u doesn't seem to be necessary, unless I have a strange setup.

I love Vim's digraphs! In emacs it's C-| tex then \phi → φ etc, which can be quite a bit more typing but can be easier to remember if you already know the TeX instructions for ever…

Konqueror on RHEL seems more likely than Lynx.

A reaction to the new moderation proposals, maybe?

FWIW, cryptocurrencies are far more fiat than dollars. You can pay taxes in dollars, for example, so they're not even a pure fiat currency.

It's used consistently in the core language and in well written packages but very inconsistently across the ecosystem. I certainly don't use it in packages I write for my own use a…

Did you write qplot? (rhetorical question) A lot of these "quirks" of R are nice for end users when they're implemented well, but are unintuitive to program and, as a consequence, …

Yeah, I was just thinking that. About 90% of what I see on twitter I would consider spam if it were sent by email. :)

Not my area, but one starting place is http://www.andrewgelman.com

I more or less agree with your specific points, but in the larger scheme of things I'm more concerned that these hypothetical people don't understand the stats than that the tool w…

Nearlyfreespeech's homepage is infinitely more attractive and professional looking than tarsnap's. And, no, the redesign in the article looks exactly like someone grabbed a $20 the…

Things tarsnap would need to be anything like dropbox: * Mobile support * Windows support * A web interface * Any way of using it other than CLI TFA left all that stuff in place. "…

Unless I skimmed over part of the post, tarsnap is still run by crontab on a unix/linux box. So, still pretty geeky. And the idea that "affordable encrypted backup" can't be unders…

From the first few graphs I've seen in the links, the shading is discrete and not continuous (e.g. p 40). Discrete shading does address my first point, and it can help somewhat wit…

1. If I want a confidence interval, I want to know the end points of the confidence interval. Trying to guess them from a plot like this is annoying and not helpful. 2. This doesn'…

"Less elitist" may not appeal to someone who announces on HN that he or she got into these three colleges. Harvard it is!

I can't find the quote now, but I'm sure that I've read of someone saying (when told that a result had been found earlier but forgotten), "Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed …

Probably not something you should care about, but this site doesn't load at all in Konqueror.

No, I'm thinking of frequencies higher than 1 day.

A priori, sure. After the fact, if you have detailed enough data it can be pretty easy to identify the timing of certain events. It doesn't mean that the reaction is correct or tha…

I think they were more concerned with losing users (and future users) and being unable to raise more funding than with actually being sued.