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If Youtube Music Key is not drawing directly from curated uploads from artists, it's going to be an opaque mess of poor quality lossy uploads.
Jesus, NYT. Is it even confirmed that they couldn't see what they were doing "because they used encrypted apps", or is that just an assumption of "anonymous officials"?

Upon loading the post and reading the first paragraph:

> American and French officials say there is still no definitive evidence to back up their presumption that the terrorists who massacred 129 people in Paris used new, difficult-to-crack encryption technologies to organize the plot.

Oh. Well there you go. I really don't see the point of these media entities letting themselves played like this by the authorities to spread their false propaganda then. The bodies weren't even cold yet and they started spreading this anti-encryption message on TV. Because they couldn't have possibly admitted that maybe - just maybe - it's the intelligence agencies that screwed up and they have to take responsibility for it, like it should happen in any democratic country, instead of pointing fingers at others. I wonder what they'll say next if we discover these terrorists weren't actually using encrypted channels to communicate.
The transcendence into self-regulation and the significance of the metrics.
"American and French officials say there is still no definitive evidence to back up their presumption that the terrorists who massacred 129 people in Paris used new, difficult-to-crack encryption technologies to organize the plot."

IMO, that is the only part of the article that needs to be understood.
Encrypted Messaging isn't the problem.

They should have better boarder control, background check on people before letting them in, communication with other countries, and better integration. Also perhaps programs for more tolerant people, and ease/integrate immigrants in instead of more religious and toward the extreme end of the spectrum.

There are many other solutions without sacrificing freedom and privacy.
Of course, I'm sure that it is possible to construct one out of a hash function. I am also pretty confident that they do more than just serve the raw bytes of the hash.
A replacement for Jenkins as the CI Pipeline management tool is my understanding.

It now makes sense why they stepped away from the Job DSL Jenkins plugin that they helped create a while back (though there's still support for Jenkins steps in there which'll be a great help with porting existing pipelines).
Maybe. Kenji Goto and others are sadly still dead and these Daesh fools keep killing others. Mocking evil people with memes is like wearing a yellow ribbon for cancer.
Sorry - guarantee was probably too strong. I meant it in the mathematical sense (no more than a negligible chance of distinguishing from random noise) [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographically_secure_pseud...
Struggling to see when I'd use this over, say, rabbitmq. Feels a bit like "not invented here" syndrome, though glad to be proven wrong. Also curious that this replaces previous tooling written in erlang, be interested to here what prompted the move to golang, I would think a message broker was right in erlang's wheelhouse
ISIS isn't trying to goad us into war. They're waging war on us, and doing so effectively. The kind of probabilistic analysis proposed by the OP takes terrorist attacks as if they occur randomly at some rate we have little control over, like car accidents. That is not the case when you have an enemy actively killing you and you have to make a decision: fight back, or signal that you won't fight back. If the latter, the number of "micromorts" is going to increase exponentially.
Yeah, considering what was described is essentially aes-ctr
In a world where mass consumer products don't offer end to end encryption, either the terrorists use encryption, and they can be arrested for that, or they don't, and they can be arrested on the basis of their plain-text communication. Or at least, maybe that's their justification...
Worse. Terror (fear) is a well tested 'problem' which people are strongly conditioned to demand solutions for. 'Real' or 'Manufactured' the result is usually the same; power brokers proclaim they don't have enough power. It's an emergent effect that power will tend to expand through all means available and fear happens to be the most powerful motivator of human action. If you keep people in this state (the 'strategy of tension') they are more pliable because being in a state of fear impairs decision making.
There's a salient difference between 7DAs and Catholics: it is possible to be a Catholic without abandoning science and reason. That's not possible for a 7D-adventist. Biblical literalism is one of the defining characteristics of 7D-adventism. It's the reason for the "Seventh Day" part of the name. I think it is perfectly reasonable for people to be doubtful and uncertain, even fearful, of the prospect of having someone who rejects science as president.

BTW, another defining characteristic of 7D-adventism is their belief that Jesus is coming back Real Soon Now. In this, they have common cause with Daesh, who believe they are doing the work of God by helping to bring about the last days. Again, I think it is perfectly reasonable to harbor fear, uncertainty, and doubt over someone like that having their finger on the nuclear button.
The problem with Soundcloud is that the freely available "preview" versions are 128 kbps transcodes,[1] which is pretty mediocre quality (and possibly worse, if the source was lossy to begin with).

[1]: http://uploadandmanage.help.soundcloud.com/customer/portal/a...
And three: The mere use of banned encryption tools can now be a crime in itself.
These are great! Can't believe that I didn't know about them before - I've been looking for simple metrics that compare the impact of things on mortality.

It's interesting that running one marathon per year is almost equivalent to being murdered in England.
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There may come a time soon where the violence is widespread enough to actually justify this level of invasion of privacy. The threat of these sorts of attacks is increasing and if countries like Pakistan are any clue, it's simply not possible to ignore it and say everything will be fine because only a small portion of the population is involved. That small portion can wreak havoc and must be managed and surveillance is the right tool to do just that. It's by far better than any other method of dealing with the problem... and it does allow for surgical precision as long as the authorities don't use it instead to go after other crime, which they inadvertently do.
Let's say these terrorists were naïve or technical luddites. Why would future perpetrators also be presumed to remain luddites?

Second, what would you propose _if_ they are found to have used encryption to avoid detection, would that make a difference? Or do we come up with a better reason to exculpate encryption?

If encryption is not a bogey-thing, then it's irrelevant whether it was used or not. We don't need confirmation it was not used.
> Feminists are arguing for things not to be gender issues.

Interesting way of doing that by making everything a gender issue all the time.

> Paul Graham explictly made this a gender issue when he praised her for being the "mom".

No, he just praised Jessica for performing the role of mother in the YC family.

> If you don't think talking about these things is valuable, nobody's forcing you to talk about them. (...)

I usually don't. But someone has to speak up when there's bullying starting to happen, because if nobody does, then it will just continue. I want to live in the world where all people are respected and happy. I don't want to live in the world where everyone is afraid of saying a thing in fear of getting bullied by political-correctness defenders.
Looks legit --> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03891wc?ocid=socialflow_fac...
Whatever you do, don't drag it out. If you're not happy with their performance, let them go.

For future candidates, pay them to come in and do a short project. That way you have a better chance of getting the right candidate, without committing yourself to full employment prematurely.

If you're not happy with their performance, surely this isn't unknown to the rest of the company. It's not good for morale (theirs or yours) to keep this person on.

EDITED: clarity
Whatever you do, don't drag it out. If you're not happy with their performance, let them go.

For future candidates, pay them to come in and do a short project. That way you have a better chance of getting the right candidate, without committing yourself to full employment.

If you're not happy with their performance, surely this isn't unknown to the rest of the company. It's not good for morale (theirs or yours) to keep this person on.
>the above question is for curiosity sake, it doesn't change the point that CPython is where new language features are added.

So far. Everything changes the moment the PyPy team announces they're an official continuation of Python2. They can easily integrate more 3rd party backported features from 3->2 into PyPy4. Guido doesn't really matter there.

That said, it doesn't take that to get me to use PyPy. The speed improvement is a dream come true. Writing pure Python is much more preferable to me than writing a C extension thus PyPy is the present and future for most of us.
Could you point an interested reader towards some stats :) ? I wanted to pick up Frege for a hobby project some weekend soon and would love to read more about the JVM up-and-comers.
2 potential options:

1: Go for a walk. A long one. Near the beginning drop the news on him or her (I'll go with her for this) that you have decided to end her employment. Identify three things that she does well, and three issues that you saw that were not resolvable. Work with her to help figure out the next step, and do what yo can to get her a good landing somewhere else. Accept responsibility for not being able to give the feedback that she requires, and talk about how, at this stage, you need someone who is more able to deliver concepts and finished product that is higher quality. The company cannot afford her at this stage.

2: Do the above but over a coffee nearby the office. Easier to stop the conversation early.

3: Have a performance review, and have a similar conversation, but work out how yo hand she are going to set targets for turnaround, get her the required help (external peers etc) to assist her and agree on a go/no-go decision date. As others have said it's better to turn things around than start again.

Overall I've very seldom seen a decision to ask someone to leave that has not worked out well for both parties. Be brave, be honest, keep your integrity and let the other person keep their respect.
Not necessarily, it's what they call a "signal".
Just like driving a white van does not mean yours was the one involved in the hold up, but it's a signal: "Look at white vans more suspiciously".
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I'm really confused as to why University of Phoenix is in the top ten.

That's a degree mill university, online university with horrible reputation.
It doesn't matter what politicians think, really.

Secure end-to-end encryption is going to happen one way or another. It's a global phenomenon, no single country can stop it.

Sure, our government likes to think it controls the world, but really all it can do is threaten the world with violence. Mathematics knows no such fear.
is the 'web' button on HN new?
Yes. Even youtube.

I routinely open a bunch of tabs with interesting things, then read them. Youtube included - I'd like to be able to open a bunch of videos, then watch then one at a time in the tabs.

I don't want all of them to start playing at once.
> The threat of these sorts of attacks is increasing

Any data to back that up? 9/11 was by far the worst and that was 14 years ago. Seems to me Islamic terrorism is hanging pretty steady at a 'virtually non-existent' level.
Did you guys know TERRORISTS are also on TWITTER and FACEBOOK! As soon as I heard this my heart sank and I deleted my accounts.

These dangerous tools are being used to recruit jihadists from our own communities!!!!! Can you believe it?

I hope they ban this "cryptography" app, as well as Facebook and Twitter.

/s

How can people be this stupid? Better question: Why are people so uncomfortable deferring their opinions to people who know these things? I don't think you'll find a single person involved in tech who thinks banning cryptography is a good idea, let alone possible.

With that in mind, why does this news article exist? How are our politicians getting away with this populist bullshit?
Rather than carry another device, I use RealCalc [0] on my Android phone. It supports RPN.

Besides, my HP-16C still works :-)

[0] http://www.quartic-software.co.uk/
Disclaimer: I have never been on a grant committee myself.

I see two problems with grant committees.
1. Some of us are more theorists, others - engineers. Some of us want to solve mysteries, others - practical problems.

Which means that if the panel is composed primarily out of theorists then applications possibly yielding highly cited papers (solving general problems vs specific) are more likely to get funded. This also creates incentive to split the work up into as many papers as possible.

Likewise, panel composed primarily out of engineers is likely to undervalue deep problem research without physical deliverables. I have absolutely zero idea how to adjust for both these cases, though.

2. Another problem is relevance/urgency. Some problems/proposals are always actual and can be polished and reapplied every year. Others can quickly get practically irrelevant or competing technology become de facto standard. E.g. analogue television (terrestrial), Magnetic Cassette (solve practical problems why those got phased out). Do we rank ones over the others or keep them in the same pool? I have no idea.
That doesn't really follow, because contrary to what you say there is option c) buy ten year note futures. From a transaction cost perspective, that's not too bad, and your argument certainly doesn't in itself explain this move. (You could also buy fives and bonds if the butterfly is appealing).

The pricing of a swap didn't first order really reflect credit risk of the swap itself (that effect is small versus what we are discussing here). Because swaps between dealers have long been collateralised with mutual mark to market. It did reflect the fact that LIBOR is rate for an unsecured loan between banks. Possibly the new regime caps how high that might go, but it's really less about LIBOR and more about Treasury funding.

Capital requirements and the higher cost of balance sheet as reflected in the repo market must be a starting point. And that's not just a US thing, but is at work in other markets too.
One guy managed to get his hands on a freaking rocket launcher. Same with one of the Charlie Hebdo attack guys, who sneaked an assault weapon into a country with strict gun laws. Are you telling me that if they are really committed these guys can't get access to an app they can use for encrypted communications?

The problem is there are too many signals, only made worse - not better - by mass surveillance (making the "hay" in which to find the needle bigger and all that). Here's an excerpt from Schneier in 2005:

> Let's look at some numbers. We'll be optimistic -- we'll assume the system has a one in 100 false-positive rate (99 percent accurate), and a one in 1,000 false-negative rate (99.9 percent accurate). Assume 1 trillion possible indicators to sift through: that's about 10 events -- e-mails, phone calls, purchases, web destinations, whatever -- per person in the United States per day. Also assume that 10 of them are actually terrorists plotting.

> This unrealistically accurate system will generate 1 billion false alarms for every real terrorist plot it uncovers. Every day of every year, the police will have to investigate 27 million potential plots in order to find the one real terrorist plot per month. Raise that false-positive accuracy to an absurd 99.9999 percent and you're still chasing 2,750 false alarms per day -- but that will inevitably raise your false negatives, and you're going to miss some of those 10 real plots.

> This isn't anything new. In statistics, it's called the "base rate fallacy," and it applies in other domains as well. For example, even highly accurate medical tests are useless as diagnostic tools if the incidence of the disease is rare in the general population. Terrorist attacks are also rare, any "test" is going to result in an endless stream of false alarms.

> This is exactly the sort of thing we saw with the NSA's eavesdropping program: the New York Times reported that the computers spat out thousands of tips per month. Every one of them turned out to be a false alarm.

99.9% and 99.9999% accuracy and you still get those huge false positive numbers. Even the drone strike program has much lower accuracy than that (yes, they do kill people based on "mostly assumptions" that they are terrorists, if that's news to anyone). I mean, in the US, they start spying on people if they have a >51% of not being an American (an amazingly low threshold - basically flipping a coin). So - maybe it's time to admit that mass surveillance is actually detrimental to catching these guys and that these spy agencies are hurting national security?

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2005/03/why_data_mi...
Who decides whether it was terrorism, revenge, craziness, etc?
I'm from Topeka, Kansas. My older sister went to Topeka West with Megan Phelps-Roper. I went to elementary school with her younger brothers (cousins?) Tim and Isaiah.

I can only attest to the latter but all the kids were good people. They just happened to be dragged out to the corners on the weekend to picket. I never really understood the signs they held anyway.
It is also possible that the United States' security agencies are simply better than the vast majority of us are aware of. Or some combination of both.
Anyone know why this wasn't published in github.com/neflix as the rest of the NetFlix OSS tools are but rather in a new account at github.com/spinnaker? They've also gone through the trouble of doing more PR and setting up spinnaker.io for this.
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Thanks for the suggestions. As you can see in the image, there are fields for that except "promise scope".

http://i.imgur.com/xBN4j24.jpg
That shouldn't happen in Safari or Chrome anymore - videos don't autoplay until you actually open the tab for the first time.
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Depends on which countries you are talking about, if you are talking about Western countries ... then yes... If you are talking about Muslim countries then no...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_%28non-state%29_terror...
The problem is the only people that use the word statist are self-styled followers of Any Rand[1]. And in that contexts it's always used as an ad hominem attack. So you got two strikes right there.

[1]There are of course legions of armchair followers of Ayn Rand in the greater nerd community. But so what. None of those people have informed or coherent arguments about policy.
> Nim has the advantage of zero overhead to C,

Untrue. Nim requires the use of a garbage collector.
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Mile distance travelled by GPS, or as measured on water?
Yup, you're entirely correct.

Fortunately, We would never do anything like bombing innocent people, because We are the Good Guys, and all our actions are therefore entirely justified. Only They do things like that, because They are the Bad Guys, and Their actions are barbaric and monstrous.

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/06/u-s-journalists-who-inst...
Video page: http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tech/2015/03/10/digital-shorts... - falls back to a low quality MP4 if you block Flash.
The other fun one is people who refer to the input files for the simulation packages as "input decks" (aka, punched card decks). I occasionally get a funny look when talking to someone from outside the computational science community use that term. And I'm in my 30s - punched cards were history by the time I started using computers myself, so this kind of terminology isn't really generational - it seems to come from specific communities.
You're so afraid. I genuinely pity you. I don't mean that as a personal attack, I'm just saying I can't imagine living life with that much anxiety. I think you should watch less mainstream news.

Personally, I'd rather die free than live surveilled. You can call me young and naive and say my principles just haven't had time to be challenged. I don't care. I stand by this completely and don't apologize for it. Freedom is the basis for a meaningful life.
If you thought the video was horrible, you most likely viewed the video without Ad0day Flash. With no flash plugin you get a sweet 400x224 video, its reminiscent of realvideo from the 90s.
On the other hand, with our population of 7.3 billion, it's kind of amazing that we don't see more terrorism. Personally, it kind of makes me feel good about Humans, given all the negatives that I usually hear about them.

To me, the problem with terrorism (aside from the terrorists) is that there are people willing to jump in immediately with political (or financial) agendas. Within hours, I'd already seen comments on FB about how fewer people would have died if France had a 2nd amendment. And, over the past few days, I've seen so much pro-police-state propaganda in the US media that it frankly scares me to death.

No - we really don't need more 'surveillance' or more build-ups in 'defense spending'.

Call me 'crazy', but I really think we should be spending the trillions and trillions of dollars (which would otherwise go into the pockets of the propagandists) on our generation's geniuses to enable them to create the technologies that makes disease, poverty, and inequality obsolete.
Out of the box, Win3.x doesn't run well in at least VirtualBox. Perhaps there are appliances for it somewhere but I don't know where.
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Countries can demand app stores comply with their laws, if they wanted to. They could demand access to interception or else the app [store] is not allowed. They could further have carriers block jailbroken sets.

With regard to noise, you can make it more manageable by building a graph. As you initially ID terrorists, you follow the graph and calibrate the signal. You don't have to enmesh everyone.
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Both, as far as I know. Plugins like NoScript disable it globally and allow you to whitelist domains/subdomains.
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