skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether or not this particular attack happened with unencrypted vs. encrypted communications is irrelevant. I'm sure if we look at terror suspects and attacks in the past year across the world --- some of them used unencrypted means to communicate and others that use encrypted means to communicate. 99.999% of people aren't terror suspects. The real question is the following: how do we fight against the remainder without comprising our values?
Nothing is traceable about bitcoin payments. All you see is coins moving from address A to address B. And then B can split into C, D, E, and each of those can too. It becomes an unmanageable mess very quickly. You can generate 1000 addresses a minute absolutely free and randomly move your coins between them for a few pennies. Even if an outside observer knows your originating address, they don't know absolutely anything about who owns the addresses the money went to. All they see is money moving, and no way to trace them to a person. If you're paranoid, you can sell/buy coins on LocalBitcoins, and there's no trail leading back to you.
Maybe it's not a bits and bytes technical problem, but it's technical according to the definition of the adjective, "of or relating to a particular subject, art, or craft, or its techniques." If the Paris police had the information, but were unable to properly analyze it, that's completely a technical problem.
YouTube Backs Its Users with New Fair Use Protection Program
French security forces already have their own surveillance program. And a controversial history of state-sponsored terrorism, from blowing up the Rainbow Warrior to enabling the Nigerian civil war. Not to mention Algeria.
Gawker's Kinja retreat is more evidence publishers struggle as tech companies
> i don't think that the US government represented all americans when they decided to drop atomic bombs in 1945

Offtopic but I wish this historical meme would die. Atomic bombs were probably the most humane option that was on the table; if you want to talk about atrocities America inflicted on Japan, let's talk about firebombings.
Terrorist Financing and Cryptocurrencies
Does anyone have details on the ground based cell networks used for some planes? Are they partnering with a provider like Verizon Wireless to use their existing service, which I don't believe is the case unless they are aiming their antennas into the air on certain towers for them. Or do they just lease space for their own antennas on towers and aim them upwards? and then pay for bandwidth, etc?
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
What dangers every company should consider?
See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
Ah you beat me too it. I used to have parts of that and the dailywtf version hanging in my office: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Fizz-Buzz-from-Outer-Spa...
Key question for digital health / biotech startups is whether direct to consumer (D2C) advertising for testing services (e.g. genetic carrier screening; cancer risk screening) would be included.
Pre-funding doesn't make sense. If I'm a new hire, they are expected to set aside today the money I'll receive in 30 years. There's zero-guarantee that I'll even be here in 30 years, let alone have retired from the USPS. What makes more sense is to set aside a portion per year during my career. If my salary is $60k, health and tax liabilities and other HR things may push my cost to the USPS to $100k, and add on this retirement liability I might cost $130k/year. Instead, in my first year I end up costing them $100k (salary, tax, health) + several million (retirement benefits).
As much as I hate Skype, it does seem to have a magical ability to connect in even the most restrictive networks.
<puts on tinfoil hat>

How soon till we get a staged terrorist event, or a staged communication from a legit one where the focus is on how they used encrypted communications?

Clearly people in power want this level of control, so the question is what lengths they will go to in order to ensure they get it.
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A legitimate problem, but the solution proposed sounds even worse. If Google said they were going to put all the money in a box when there was some dispute over who owned it, I feel that neither creators nor copyright owners would be happy.

I don't have a better solution, of course. I started typing one out and immediately realized how it could be gamed. It's not a simple problem and it doesn't have a simple solution that I can see. But it's good that it's being looked at, at least.
This is an issue for both doctors and pharmaceutical companies. Doctors hate it because patients may want a drug that's not optimal for them (but I saw if on TV) and it's bad for pharmaceuticals because they've had to become marketing machines, investing massive amounts of money into advertising and sales apps.

The biggest issue with an outright ban is consumer education. Someone, something, or some organization needs to be responsible for properly communicating and educating consumers on a drug, its benefits, and its negatives. It needs to be educational, supplemental, and neutral.

Stuff like this does exist for cancer drugs but should spread to other drug areas as well.
> So you're both [edit: all] saying that Congress is being paid (by who? UPS/Fedex?) to screw USPS over.

I don't see anyone saying that Congress is being paid to do that. Congress has lots of members who favor privatization of government services in general and the post office in particular, but outright privatization seemed like it would have a political cost that they weren't willing to bear. So they put in that measure, with the intent of building political support for privatization over time.

Whether the preference for privatization is honest ideology, corruption, or something else is its own issue.

> Why wasn't this mentioned in the article if it's such a well-known scheme?

The article mentions the mandate as one of the central problems facing the USPS, and the fact that it is a requirement that neither private businesses nor other public institutions face.
Ahh the good old days. I remember downloading a 4 floppy game overnight, because some BBSes would give you unlimited time after 10pm or something like that.
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Interpersonal skills vs. coding chops
I'm pretty frustrated in life right now. I'm at a stage of life - end of college - which should be my prime years for socializing and learning valuable interpersonal skills. But they are also the prime years for gaining coding chops, contributing to open source to get some experience, and so on.

I feel like I'm caught in a catch-22 situation - if I spend all my time coding, then my desire to interact with others (and others' desires to interact with me) decreases - because I become boring due to spending time only in my own skill development. This will have negative consequences - I miss out on opportunities cause nobody is an island. I also have emotional anxiety which impacts my productivity.
But if I spend time trying to socialize/trying to make plans/have a few easy-going days, then my skill stagnates and I feel that I'm losing sight of my endgoal (to be a better programmer). Then there will be no use of my network because I won't have the capacity to create anything significant.

To clarify more, my drive to be a better programmer is because I want to have enough skill to create a hugely valuable and profitable startup. I think I've got enough skills to get a decent-good programming job(so I don't need to code 8-10 hours a day for just that) BUT obviously I want to exceed expectations, and win at life. My definition of winning at life is make genuine friendships, make a boatload of money, and not need to work in a conventional company/career.

So, all the above means I want to code 24x7 to be as technically proficient as possible. But spending all that time coding would leave me a boring and lonely guy I think. How do people balance their skill with their time? How do I become smarter and more efficient than I am now, while also becoming more of a fun and attractive personality to hang around with?
Say what you want about monarchies and the aristocracy, but they were bred, educated, and raised specifically to govern, and had a vested interest in governing well -- lest they and their progeny be eliminated violently by the governed.
I take issue with the suggestion that this is an unambiguous sign of ethical progress in scientific research.

One problem is that there is rather little clarity on the set of ethical principles that warrants the inclusion of other species into our sphere of moral concern. It seems that, from a detached perspective, the only identifiable basis for our moral sense is that it enables human beings to negotiate conflict and cooperate in social settings without recourse to violence. It's difficult for some to see how a concern for the other great apes advances this goal. On the other hand, there are many research contexts where the close evolutionary relationship between Homo sapiens and the other great apes makes the latter an extremely useful pool of specimens in situations where experimenting directly on the former would conflict with this goal. In other words, we need to clarify the justification for concern for the well-being of the other great apes. Is this mere empathy, or is there a rational basis for the ethical judgment which accounts for the basis of morality?
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Freedom of speech doesn't disallow private companies from banning speech/expression.
I've never understood the logic behind prescription drug ads. The first rule of sales is to pitch the decision maker. You can't buy prescription drugs without a doctor's authorization, so basically the ads are asking people to go beg their doctors for medicine they may, or may not, need. The doctor, in turn, may give in to the patient's emotional pleas, since they are, in effect, in a customer service business. This would be an ethical violation. This rule would remove the ethical temptation of doctors

Further, it will be nice not to hear about an erection lasting over 4 hours, and not being too old for sex, in front of my 11 year old daughter while watching the news after dinner.

From a policy perspective, since the patients are not usually paying for the meds (you and I do), it makes sense to keep demand and prices low, as the doctors assert.

As for the free market, we do not have a free market in medicine. It is highly regulated through insurance and government regulation. So, I don't see a problem there.
This is a really serious problem. There's a reason why the normal process of justice involves presenting evidence in public rather than just saying, "We know this guy is guilty because reasons we can't tell you. Don't worry, we've already executed him."

The fight has to be done procedurally or we'll end up shelling Parisian suburbs.
"fizz", "buzz", and "fizzbuzz" should be separate microservices each with their own failover and redundancy systems.
It's quite easy to come up with good rules that resolve orders without serialization, and certainly without FIFO serialization. There are a number of strategies that could be employed, including "fractional allocation" and "pick randomly". I doubt it really matters exactly what you pick as long as 1) the rules are applied evenly and 2) everyone thinks they are fair.

"My ethernet cable is 5m shorter than your ethernet cable" is does not sound like a reasonable input to the fairness function.
Yes, good point. Resistance to antibacterials might also be a problem, so their use in consumer goods is still problematic, but the distinction does undermine my tldr.
FWIW, modarchive has a new, JavaScript base player since September:

http://modarchive.org/news.php?13841

It uses HTML5 for audio output:

https://github.com/deskjet/chiptune2.js
You could do this in theory with gpg by signing keys with a master key after generating them but there's no way to do it automatically with ssh (that I'm aware of)
In 20th century America there was also explicit, legal censorship of stuff that would not be a problem today. People were sent to prison for months or years, but this is rarely talked about. See Eugene Debs, Lenny Bruce, William Baird, etc.
> Gemcached
> Geode servers can be configured to talk memcached protocol.

hey this is very interesting, it could work as a persistent acid memcached drop-in replacement!
Stanford cybersecurity expert analyzes Anonymous' hacking attacks on ISIS
This is my response to the "but I have nothing to hide" argument. You may not have an obvious reason to want your identity hidden, nor may I. But someone else may have a legitimate reason. A whistleblower, a victim of domestic violence, a political refugee, a newspaper reporter investigating corruption in a police department. Do you think these people should be able to make use of encryption and anonymity? Of course. But if they are the only ones trying to stay private, that privacy is a spotlight shining on their actions. It draws the attention of people who would take advantage of them and threatens their ability to protect themselves.

Privacy, anonymity, and encryption protect the people who need them only when they are pervasive. The same way vaccines protect people who are susceptible to infection. Saying "I have nothing to hide" is akin to not getting a flu shot because you feel healthy. That's not how it works. You need that herd immunity or the virus will find cracks to survive in. When you refuse a vaccine or allow invasion of privacy because you don't feel threatened you're putting yourself ahead of people who are most at risk of being harmed by the disease or put in danger by having personal details become known.
A new form of censorship. Neither the reaction of a private party nor the reaction of a government entity, but a death by a thousand cuts. For example, threats to riot or boycott unless someone is fired. Someone 'internet stalking' you and poisoning all sorts of relationships but not by using any illegal means. Entire groups deciding to make an example out of you by means that, had any one person done all of it would have crossed into illegal actions, but which have been split among a group.
Interesting - we're using New Relic and reasonably happy, but might give this a try. It'd be nice to get more concrete comparisons on features compared to them - New Relic is a pretty huge product and we use it for things like alerting PagerDuty based on error rates and response times as well as performance, and has lots of powerful reports etc.

Ironically, one of the biggest problems with New Relic is that their interface is bloated and performs poorly :)
Other fun fact with that nugget is that mandate was originally written and lobbied for by UPS and Fedex. USPS's financial woes were manufactured by the public competition..

Funny also how quickly perception of USPS changed. Prior to that many considered them a model of an anti-red tape beaurucratic government entity.
Is it reasonable to scream bloody murder when one org is forced to follow the sane policy instead of demanding that others start to follow it too?
There is no discrepancy to explain. "Operating profit" is not "net profit". Specifically, operating profit consists of only line items generated from operations, so mainly revenues less operating expenses. It does not include things like funding liabilities, interest, taxes, etc.
Can't a free market sort out the problems with drug use?
Funniest Dubsmash Compilation #1- Girl with pet pig
Yep. Also some work underway to talk redis protocol at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Geode+Redi....
You can write Java in any language.
I think you shouldn't worry too much. I think regardless of your success in coding vs real life fun you'll end up happy if you follow your heart.

Now when you have time to learn, grab the opportunity. Later in life you might spend most of your time talking to colleagues and clients and taking care of your family.
Jim Sterling, who has been the victim of malicious copyright claims on videos which are clearly fair use, has a good video on the implications of the policy: https://youtu.be/w-UgOXP82UI
What if they pay with their own money?
I'm glad we agree on that.
-> It is truly amazing how bankers always get away with this kind of incompetent non-sense.

-> And company going IPO is leaving money on the table, which is stolen by those greedy (too polite a term for bankers) bankers.

Well, it appears both these statements can't be true. Bankers can't both be so stupid so as to leave such amazing amount of money on the table...and then also be so smart that they reap the rewards of significant underpricing.
Yes, a Perl one-liner:

perl -E 'map { say } map { { 3 => "Fizz", 5 => "Buzz", 15 => "FizzBuzz" }->{ sub { my $val = shift; (grep { $val % $_ == 0 } (3, 5, 15))[-1] }->($_) } || $_ } (1..100)'

Or a little more readable:

map { say }
map {
{ 3 => "Fizz", 5 => "Buzz", 15 => "FizzBuzz" }->{
sub {
my $val = shift;
(grep { $val % $_ == 0 } (3, 5, 15))[-1]
}->($_)
} || $_
} (1..100)
Didn't understand much from the linked page, but I found this website (from Pivotal, the commercial entity behind Geode) quite informative. Perhaps it's useful to others.

https://pivotal.io/big-data/pivotal-gemfire

===

I found this interesting deployment:

China National Railways use Geode to run railway ticketing for the entire
country with a 10 node cluster, managing 2 TB of "hot data" in memory,
and 10 backup nodes for high availability and elastic scale.

Holiday travel periods [Chinese New Year's] create peaks of 15,000 tickets
sold per minute, 1.4 billion page views per day and 40,000 visits per second.

http://pivotal.io/big-data/case-study/scaling-online-sales-f...
What kind of access should a cable company have to your cable modem? Should it at all?

I mean, your ISP does not need any access to your edge router if the ISP gives you a standard Ethernet socket. How standardized are cable interfaces? What kind of custom setup may they legitimately need to work in a particular cable network?
> Shall something bad happen - you'll lose your identity and will have to seek it back in a court.

That's true for every way to prove identity. For most use cases, it's a feature that you can get it back in court. See also "identity theft".

> that juridical sense isn't international. There are countries that seize or undelegate domains they can reach at whim.

In a way it's very international. It has never happened in the history of the Internet that one top domain organization has undelegated domains under another top domain.

It is true however that you are always subject to your country's laws. But this system is international in a way that none of your other identities are: You can easily get a domain in another country, and that ownership is exclusively managed by that country's laws.

> I really don't want to trust any other entity but myself to be a source my identities,

That doesn't make for very useful names.

I may assert that I am Barrack Obama. You will most certainly not agree. That limits the usefulness of self-asserted identitites. See also "Zooko's Triangle".
Speaking as someone who has worked at a few electronic hardware OEMs (and been involved in production), I can tell you that inventory cost and risks are a significant concern.
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There's a well-known link between oil revenues (well, natural resource revenues) and democracy:

http://www.voxeu.org/article/oil-and-democracy-new-insights

Well-established democracies with diverse economies such as Canada are mostly immune to these effects.

More reading:

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2011-08-...

What's interesting about that article is how it predicts unrest in the Middle East surrounding the control over oil resources. By obtaining control over oil resources Daesh has secured their ability to continue operating. Take away that resource and they're likely to die off pretty quickly.
So compound one error with another?
> Is it reasonable to scream bloody murder when one org is forced to follow the sane policy instead of demanding that others start to follow it too?

I disagree that it is a sane policy (much less that it is the sane policy) except when applied consistently. There is a not-unreasonable argument that it might be a sane policy, applied consistently.
We had more people leaving much happier lives than ever before in history, so I wouldn't say that "the Industrial Age is the worst thing that could have happened to human kind". Even the most horrible problems of our times are affecting less people than the mundane pre-industrial problems were. If we can push through it to a post-industrial technological era, then it'll definitely be worth it.
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Are you saying that they should pre-download movies and music to listen to on the plane?

I use Google Play for music because it's pretty okay at letting me cache local music on my phone, but I have no idea how well Rdio, Spotify, or Pandora do that. I don't think there's a way to do it on your computer at all, so if you only have a work phone that you don't keep music on, streaming music might be your only option if you don't want to listen to one of the 13 channels provided via the crappy in-seat audio jack.
With the serious presence of corporate money in American policy making, I wonder if that is the result of lobbying from FedEx and UPS. They stand to profit from a weakened USPS.
Have you ever sought a particular prescription from a doctor? Many general practitioners in the United States are glorified drug dealers. You will probably get whatever you ask for if you can afford the copay.
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With hacker news you can leave and form your own community where that sentiment can be expressed. One just needs to visit a website belonging to some fringe group to see that. But with society's laws, you can't do that. Those communities, because they are now illegal, will be hunted down and destroyed. Instead of flag killing the opinion, imagine if the one who posted it could be banned from the internet.
What this article misses is my favourite bit: maintainability and extensibility.

If this were real code two things would happen;

1. Someone would refactor the `fizzbuzz_word(n)` method and this would all break

2. Your PM would ask for a new feature "multiples of 7 should be said 'Wuzz'"

So that 2 minute test becomes a 10 minute venture into real world problem solving.
I wonder if you could "bypass" the browser by having a socket on your box that connected to a websocket server (?) that then forwarded your request to the remote box. I haven't had coffee so I'm probably missing something.

Edit: https://github.com/mcavage/node-ssh-agent is interesting.

You could have a browser extension that connects back to a local daemon.
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In the long run, yes. However, in the long run we're all dead.
This exists already: https://www.trunkclub.com/
>> Per-Request Pricing is also available. Estimate your bill
>> REQUESTS PER MINUTE: 2
>> An average of 2 req/min is $20.00 per-month.

That I see as one "big" innovation over newrelic. Why do you have to pay when servers are idle?
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You should balance both but coding is not all about writing code, you will have to work with people and requirements, being able to interact with people and also be fun is a trait you need in today's economy.
There's a lot of money in construction, about $400 billion in a mediocre year. But it's widely distributed - single family construction is about half of the total. There isn't a Google/Apple/Microsoft of construction.