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There is a lot of Tory bashing going on here but this policy runs deeper, Labour tried to put through similar legislation. The coalition dropped it but is back. Each Home Secretary seems to become more hard line and blinkered, like they are being poisoned by the fear emanating from the security services.
The BBC is being a good state mouthpiece today - the fact that they're quoting May as saying it doesn't hold previously contentious matters (I.e. Breaking encryption) is disingenuous to say the least.

No, it's not.

The bill will say that "unbreakable" encryption is illegal - which means all encryption, as if it's breakable, well, it's not really encrypted, is it.

Source please – I've not seen this language indicated anywhere.

they haven't arrested anyone at talktalk, who are tge ones who had such poor infosec that script kiddies could blow them wide open. Instead they're arresting children.

Poor information security isn't a crime. Breaking into computer systems is.
Their "tools" are very primitive since they've pulled programmatic API access from the most significant ones.
Statistics are fun. Obviously getting a degree is important and will set you ahead of someone without - saying there is no problem with America's higher education market is not something I can agree with.
The Lib Dems were the ones who blocked the Snoopers Charter last time around.
Headline is wrong. Correct topic sentence from article :

"In essence, by utilizing an improved experimental procedure,
the team managed to mitigate some of the errors from
prior tests — yet still found signals of unexplained
thrust."

No, the EmDrive does not work, they just haven't yet figured out yet why they see the spurious acceleration in their measurements.

How do we know it doesn't work? Because it violates conservation of momentum, without involving any of the extreme conditions where our current understanding of physics might break down. Basic physics is REALLY REALLY well tested. The chances that some new experimental configuration will expose new physics, without involving extreme energy concentrations or extremely large or tiny spatial dimensions, is so near to zero as to be negligible.
WordPress in itself isn't that unsafe; they are pretty diligent in fixing bugs and security issues. However that is not true about plugins, themes, various theme/plugin frameworks developed for WordPress[1], or custom-tailored things[2]. Also, we must factor in the end-users lack of technical competence[3].

Source: I work for a hosting company with lots of WordPress sites.

[1]: In my experience, there's lot of purposely back-doored, or easily exploitable themes and plugins. Also, let's not forget that users and/or developers often get these illegally (without even knowing they did it; it happened a few times).

[2]: The entry barrier for PHP/WordPress is extremely low and many of these developers are beginners and lack even basic understanding of security or even how things work; they base stuff off from an overly-simplified tutorial written by someone only slightly more experienced than they are. There are also inherent language and CMS issues here, but I won't go into those.

[3]: We actually have users who don't to update WordPress or any of the plugins for ages. AGES! The other day, I had to argue with a client why having a WordPress version from 2006 (something from the 2.0.x release series) is a bad idea. This is either because the developer stopped supporting and abandoned development of some component their site depends on, or because of legacy custom-tailored code that was a once-off purchase.
Looks like we need to the millennium group:
"As the 3rd millennium approached, the Group's internal differences began to manifest into two factions—the "Roosters", who believed in a religiously eschatological view of the end of the world, and the "Owls", who believed the world would end with a secular natural disaster. Attempting to instigate the end of the world artificially, the Rooster faction began to develop a lethal virus; in 1998 they released this virus in the Pacific Northwest, killing upwards of seventy people before the outbreak was contained. A year later, a vastly depleted Millennium Group staged one last attempt to trigger the apocalypse, resurrecting deceased members in order to create the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; when this plot was foiled by the FBI, it was believed to have caused the dissolution of the Group."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Group
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Oh no, another "Here's a huge market. Now imagine if only 1% of them buy your product" article to add to the junk pile.
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"So, the discovery is not fun in itself, it doesn't add anything to the movie experience, and thus wouldn't really be worth much attention."

Sorry Fun Police, but you don't get to decide what's fun for everyone. This wasn't a movie review, and if you're not interested in people enjoying trying to decide if a completely impossible concept (a car from 1985 traveling through time) would have worked within the reality constructed by the movie, then feel free to skip down to the next HN story.

Reading, then commenting on, a story which is self described to be on a topic you have no interest in, can be considered nothing more than trolling.
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Where do you consider moving?
Could somebody comment on how "future proof" the bitcoin technology really is? How large can the trading volumes become, and is there a limit? What advances have been made in crypto-currencies that will replace bitcoin?
This is what you think and this is the problem because you are not alone at all. I highly recommend you reading this book: "NEWSPEAK in the 21st Century". It is highlighting the fact that the BBC is not neutral for a lot of critical issues. This is why I prefer "opinionated" papers.

Sorry for this thread going maybe a bit off-topic, but this a subject I am pretty attached too. Again, I am not saying that the BBC is not doing great work, but just that it is not as neutral as what the opinion think it is.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/NEWSPEAK-21st-Century-David-Edwards/...
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Interesting thought. It wouldn't surprise me if this had already happened so that sensitive government offices could share information before the widespread adoption of the internet.
It also depends very much on the rules of engagement. 300,000 guys with modern technology, precision munitions and a government with strong human rights legislation have a hard time against 75,000 men with assault rifles, improvised munitions and no limits on what they can do to their enemies.
Trading just for profits is no different from other kinds of gambling. Even though I like Bitcoin myself, I'm not the most risk-taking kind of person. The market price depends on the collective sentiment of every single trader, and no matter what I believe, I can't force them all to agree with me.
Poor information security is a crime when that information involves personal information. The Data Protection Act requires that personal information is kept secure. Just because no one has been prosecuted yet doesn't mean they couldn't or shouldn't be.
Installing kubernetes isn't actually as difficult as you've made it out to be. You'd be able to draft a workflow in less effort in comparable circumstances using puppet and you'll get things such as health checking and failover of your apps for mostly free.

If you're well invested in puppet, using puppet is going to be easier because you know it. You can happily use docker with puppet. Stop puppet from installing $APP and instead use it to docker pull && docker run $APP.

This means the logic for building your application has obviously moved to the Dockerfile. You cannot currently get rid of this logic, only hide it in abstractions. I prefer it living in the apps repo as it's a nice seperation of concerns, but you obviously would prefer it to be magic, which you can have but at the price of versatility.

If you are able write code to build and deploy apps, then moving over to using docker should be pretty trivial for you. However, I actually see docker as a replaceable part, whilst kubernetes might actually be here to stay.
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The bill appears to have the full support of most Labour MPs too..
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It is easy to hide those amounts by just using a lot of different addresses. Of course people can try to tie those addresses together again, but that's pretty hard.
You could note that the richer a society is, the less environmental problems. The real problems are countries industrializing now, like China. The richer we get the less environmental problems. But let's ignore that.

Shouldn't they instead insist on male VHEMT members being mandatory sperm donors for all of humanity, in order to raise average benevolence of the human race...?

Then in a few generations they could ask for (even) more drastic measures like mandatory sterilization.

(Assuming of course that humanitarian attitudes are largely genetic and not mainly a cultural/psychological phenomena, except for outliers like psychopaths.)

But I should probably shouldn't joke like this and not give them ideas.
A bank not locking their vaults would probably be slapped with a few dozen criminal charges in court. Why would that not apply for electronics? If you've committed to protecting the data, you're supposed to make a reasonable effort to actually do so.
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> Am I right in understanding they will have access to
> this data without a warrant?

Second line of the article:

> The police and security services will have to get
> permission to access the content and councils will be
> banned from trawling the records.
> no we are none of those things. we believe we are, but we are actually not

I don't see how you can know this. More justification is required. Saying something doesn't make it true. This sounds a lot like nihilism, so if so, why bother?
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AI in large part is supervised learning. I think the more important question here is when that becomes feasible for general purpose stuff for facebook.
Indeed, one of the strongest critics (David Davis) is a Conservative and resigned his position as Shadow Home Secretary and MP under the Labour government to protest and highlight the issues.
This analysis doesn't address the fact that the flux capacitor on board twisted the rules of physics locally :)
> So unless MMM turns out to be a billion-dollar ponzi scheme I don't really think it'll affect the BTC price much.

The actual transaction volume of bitcoin is not even that large. The total market cap is 6.5 billion and only because of the recent price surge.
We should also ban alleyways, as criminals can hide in them too.

Also noisy pubs and bars, because they provide an excellent environment for criminals to converse without people overhearing them.

And possibly the postal service, because criminals can use them to send messages, explosives, drugs and children to other criminals, without the police knowing the approximate contents of the communications.
Interesting features:

* Ability to hide packets length with the noise data.

* Ability to hide payload timestamps with constant packet rate traffic.
But because of the rotation of the Earth and in fact the whole Galaxy in the meantime, the vertical component of the ravine became the horizontal component of the road :)
UK law basically says "assess the risk and take appropriate measures." Short of criminal negligence, it's extremely unlikely that anybody will be prosecuted.
A different view on political systems
> now, generally, from experience, i have the impression that higher mental skills often translate simply into a higher capability of producing more elaborate rationalizations of positions that a person would have held anyway, positions which are rooted in emotions. pointing out rational counterarguments can in many situations only go so far. in fact, i have many times had an easier time discussing with people one might call primitive, since you get to the truth of their motives very quickly (...) with very rational people it's sometimes really difficult to break through the layers of rationalizations.

I think that's a potential failure mode of getting too smart. Rationality is supposed to teach you to notice when you're building layers of rationalization instead of updating your opinion to account for new evidence. It's a hard habit to learn, so what you described often happens instead. But if you're aware of this trap I still think learning more is better than not learning :).

> with respectful approach to people's feelings, a lot can be achieved

That's probably the truth about dealing with people, of all kinds of skill, education, smartness, etc. I'd say most of interpersonal conflicts come from one or both sides not groking it.
Unfortunately the software downtime is longer and there are hundreds of customers using it. The risk of something happening is something I need to consider too
At least it appears that there is actually a filling station to show for the money. I worked with people that worked in Afghanistan as contractors for the US and UK governments and they told me that often millions would spent on building a new school in a remote area, through a chain of sub-contractors, each creaming off slices of the money both through margins and bribes, and yet when later someone went to the site to inspect the school, they found no building at all.
ASK HN: Any licensing options for Electron based desktop apps?
While looking at Electron to build cross platform desktop apps I've stumbled onto a problem when it comes to licensing a commercial project.

Is there any license generation scheme you can recommend or think is suitable for a commercial project given the technologies used by Electron?

To avoid confusion, when I say licensing, I mean generation product license key that that users use to register the software and potentially unlock "pro" features.

So far, googling hasn't really turned up any results.

Any thoughts?
>Source please – I've not seen this language indicated anywhere.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/1...

>Poor information security isn't a crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998
France also has double digit unemployment rates.
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I've been living in the UK for 2 years now, and just came back from several months in China.

Having been fairly 'cautious' about the surveillance situation in China, I returned only to realise it isn't a whole lot better here, and not improving.

Kinda glad I won't be staying in the UK, this is not a good direction to be going.
how would one trade bitcoin fast enough to profit?

can one short bitcoin in a single day?

last time I tried it was insanely slow to buy bitcoin, and then sell it...
Just support installing multiple library versions "side-by-side".
It's interesting to see how churches are fixpoints in most pictures.
By that I am guessing he means that we are different from all the other beings on this planet. That we are "conscious, self-aware, sentient beings". I am totally not conscious of what is going on in my environment right now, and even if I were there isn't much I can do about it more than a few feet from my house. It's like my neighbor is doing this or that to destroy the planet, meh. Self-aware? Nope. I am aware I exist but lots of stuff is going on in my head that I am totally unaware of, why I feel the way I do, I don't know. I am further conditioned by the system not to respond to much of the stimulus with threats of death or imprisonment... much like in nature. Do I feel, yes I feel, but there isn't much to do about how I feel other than work more so I can buy more.

My thesis: people in terms of the amount of agency they have are little more than animals. They gather resources so they can continue to live. They have little agency to do anything about anything. They are conditioned to worry about things that they have no control over. They see this as a sign of intelligence, I don't. For me as a human being worrying about shit the system is doing is above my pay grade... much like other animals on this planet.
Many of the people released by Obama are jihadists who joined ISIS.
A group that thrives on raping and selling non-muslim girls.

You don't join a group like that unless your beliefs align with that. America, Obama and leftists screwed the pooch on this one by listening to Islamist-supporters like Greenwald and other regressive left.

Congratulations, you truly fucked brown poor people in the desert who were better off without these muslims terrorists.
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Nice, but there is a fundamental problem with the three-way merge: the guarantees about the result are very weak, and it may require special attention to resolve merge conflicts.
"...he argues that criminals and terrorists" don't use normal communication channels..."

That part is true, and is known to government, the public (not at large, but it's no secret) and criminals.

The problem is a simple one, and identity checks at borders are a good example. You ask non-nationals, for example, to fill in a landing card to indicate where the traveller is staying during his or her visit.

If left blank the traveller is interrogated and risks deportation. If however the traveller lies and provides any plausible address, be it hotel or residential, he or she is allowed through without suspicion.

The manpower doesn't exist to verify these details. The technology doesn't exist that verifies these details.

The net result is that technical solutions will only catch stupid people. The outliers, the ones you really want, know how to game the system and don't get caught. No matter how much snooping, back-dooring, breaking of encryption or other nefarious thing is done.

It's economics + psychology. You spend what you have to ensure you cover 99% of the problem. The remaining 1% requires 1 or more orders of magnitude of resource to catch, which is simply not viable.
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My (Canadian) wife is proposing that we emigrate to Canada in the medium-term - I'm inclined to agree with her for the same reasons that you give.
Where would you move out? Any other of 5eyes country? 13eyes?
USSR and the Eastern Bloc fell quickly.
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Thanks for the source, it's interesting that The Telegraph is the only paper reporting this. IOW, I'll believe it when I see it.

The Data Protection Act does not in practice criminalise poor information security – it does criminalise the lack of things like a risk assessment. Short of actual negligence, nobody will be prosecuted due to the hostile actions of a third party. Probably not a bad thing, as it would be obviously ludicrous to do so.
Pharo Smalltalk IDE as Visualizer: Mondrian in Action [video]
This is the IDE that is used to code in Pharo Smalltalk itself, not a separate, external tool.
US high-frequency trader convicted in first US 'spoofing' case
Bitcoin is in constant development, so it's a hard question to answer.

If Bitcoin core development suddenly stopped right now it wouldn't be very future proof. Trading volumes are irrelevant from a scaling perspective, what matters is number of transactions per second (tps). Right now Bitcoin has a really low capacity, just 7tps, way below VISA for example.

However, progress is underway on creating the Lightning Network [2], which will enable billions of transactions per day. Just 11 days ago a major requirement of the Lightning network was merged into Bitcoin core, and things are moving fairly quickly in the right direction.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability

[2] https://lightning.network/

I doubt anything will replace Bitcoin, further crypto-currency advances will likely be built on top of it (like the Lightning Network and sidechains). Ethereum is looking incredibly promising (has been dubbed Bitcoin 2.0), but I think it will be used primarily as a blockchain programming framework instead of as an alternative currency.
A few places I've considered and researched so far are Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Germany, Belgium, and Switzerland.

Some of these countries are worse than others when it comes to similar surveillance or civil liberties issues but they all at least appear to be very much preferable to Britain and the path it is on.

The language barrier in issue in some of these places more than others, although I am open to learning a new language. I began taking German lessons recently just for fun.

The actual process of gaining citizenship or even residency can be difficult too, especially for somewhere like Iceland from what I have learned.

It's obviously a massive decision to make and not one that can be made quickly and rashly.

I just can't see myself wanting to stay here in the UK much longer. I don't feel any kinship with this place.
Can you expand on the weak guarantees?

Sure, conflicts need to be handled. That's a fundamental problem with reality!
The actual language in the bill is unclear as it's not been published yet and all we have to go on is competing Home Office press releases.
Canada is something I've only thought about in passing.

I don't really know much about the process of moving there to be honest.

I'll have to read into it.
I should have put supplements in double quotes.
That's sort of the entire point. The idea is that you build datastructures using this library that operate over the three-way merge, and provide their own guarantees about merge conflicts.

For instance, a weakly consistent data structure could promise never to raise a merge conflict, and therefore be safe to compose. A stronger one could raise more precise merge exceptions depending on the exact error, which ripple up to the application.

An example of an application handling this sort of merge error is the Cuekeeper TODO manager (which is a pure JavaScript Irmin app that uses HTML5 Localstorage/IndexedDB). Try opening http://test.roscidus.com/CueKeeper/ in two tabs and creating conflicting changes, and see the Irmin merge error ripple up to the UI.
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