skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eye-witnesses report trained soldiers in uniforms that then were allowed to escape.

This is a false flag attack that serves a number of purposes. Slowing the push for encryption and generally boosting surveillance and domestic operations is one. As the western debt grows and the military position becomes thinner, it will become increasingly difficult to maintain the fiat that demands massive resource distribution imbalances. This will lead to serious shortages in western countries. In order to maintain power, the state turns its guns and spies inward.

But in the meantime the covert operations in Syria have not been completely successful, and since they need to do Syria before Iran (as has been planned for many years) they need to move to overt operations. This requires the propaganda to motivate it which needs a real event behind it.
I use a CISCO IP 303 Phone and pay traci.net next to nothign for VOIP service.
Traffic deaths do not provide a useful scale here. They are typically not intentional and everyone understands that you take risks when you ride in an automobile.

An act of terrorism, even if it causes no casualties, is cause for great concern because innocent civilians are being deliberately targeted.
Just one of those buzzwords. Programming in crowds may work for some and not for others. A few years ago I was learning about agile and various methodologies. Eventually, I realized that most people writing most about the various trends and ideas did so to mainly to make a buck.

I'd very much prefer a methodology that focuses on knowledge sharing, respectful culture and hard knowledge (and fun).
> Only rarely, says Jason Bordoff, director of Columbia University’s Centre on Global Energy Policy, has the oil market behaved like a normal market, more subject to the laws of supply and demand than to the whims of a cartel. Now is one of them.

We've forgotten what the oil market was like before Standard Oil. First off, cars didn't exist, uses for oil were limited to small-ish industrial products like lubricants, and for lamps. There certainly wasn't anything like today's power infrastructure, internal-combustion engines had yet to be invented.

Oil producers were an unruly lot responding mostly to immediate financial needs rather than long-term business planning. Oil was a niche product with vast differences in quality among refiners. Only the affluent could really afford to regularly light their lamps at night.

Rockefeller changed all that, virtually overnight. He wrangled the impossible-to-deal-with oilmen and standardized the refining process, something that had to happen before it was possible to invent the automobile. Standard Oil, more than any other person or company, created the world we live in. Without Rockefeller, cars wouldn't have been possible. Oil power plants wouldn't have been possible. Without oil, we'd still be using coal.

Cartels stabilize violent markets and allow industries to mature and build on top of a stable status quo. Eventually civilization moves in, and brings regulation and massive capital infusion. That's obviously better than the cartel, but don't mistake things, cartels are vastly better than the states of affairs they grow out of.
This gem:

"Once, technology meant stuff that went to the moon…cured fatal diseases…extended the human lifespan […] miraculous breakthroughs that altered lives […] Now, “tech” means something very different: apps that…hails taxis…summon butlers…automatically call dog walkers…gadgets that remind you have a meeting…turn on your thermostat for you […] It’s not that the latter is bad. But it is a fact that the latter is trivial."

The VC crowd is hooked short term development which has the potential to make them rich quickly. This may be about to change. Very few software-only tech companies have not been focusing solving hard problems which are not trivial, as these types of problems require much longer product development schedules, and a therefore much more capital to invest.
JScript was introduced with IE 3 (1996)

Dynamic HTML (modifying the page with javascript) was introduced with IE 4 (1997)

iframes were introduced with HTML 4 (1998) I think.

XMLHttpRequest was introduced with IE 5 (1999)

So 1998 era, maybe, but Javascript had a reputation as being slow and buggy. Flash, Java applets, and even active X were more acceptable technology at the time.

(Not trying to dismiss Netscape in my timeline -- I wrote it with respect to Microsoft implementing it.)
I have, but it was for a natural disaster. I was able to get to my lab by crafting a spell at the authorities using the words "radiation" and "explosive gases".
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This headline is pernicious clickbait. Why not say "Microsoft Invented a Google Earth precursor, but never took it seriously"? Because that would not force you to click through to understand how they "totally blew it."

Spoiler alert: They built TeraServer map service to demonstrate that their database product could handle a terabyte or more of data. They got tons of user interest, but didn't use the information they got from searches or the user emails to iterate on their project. They could have developed a dominant mapping service (the author's thesis, sort of), but they let the project languish.
Well, some argue that if not the war itself then some of the decisions made by the US in Iraq in the aftermath of the war helped forming ISIS, such as, dismantling the Iraqi army [1].

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/did-george-w-bush-cr...
Have you ever owned or lived in a home with trees? Ensuring that your trees are healthy is pretty standard for homeownership. Otherwise sooner or later you'll have to deal with a fallen limb on your (or your neighbor's) house or car. It's a lot easier to sleep in the middle of a snowstorm knowing that the tree overlooking your bedroom isn't going anywhere.
I'm only comforted by the fact that there's really nothing any government can do to stop crypto. The technology has become simple enough that anybody can encrypt their communications or files with open-source software, and that's basically impossible to stop.
So converting the Western countries into Saudi Arabia is the solution you bring to the table?
> By this argument you seem to be claiming that there's no liability in cases where people die.

No, that's not what I'm claiming. There are many cases in which there is clear liability when people die.
I don't think he was thinking about Mac.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Floppy_D...
Genius. :)
I completely agree with all of your points, and did not mean to imply that governments caused these attacks, or were willfully negligent. I apologize if I did not express this in my previous post.
Germany partially suspended registration of refugees, the head of one of the parties in government is on record saying that currently about 40-50% of them are not even registered at all.

(http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/spd-chef-gabriel-40-...)

Supposedly, this is not a problem - even though it is people from the country where ISIS terrorists operate.

At the same time, we have a continuous push for and actually new surveillance laws such as the dreaded 'Vorratsdatenspeicherung'.

That doesn't really fit together at all anymore...
Really? I feel like half of my time working with hashicorp tools is spent cursing. Vagrant takes more time to parse its ruby code than it takes to boot a vm and its guest. It breaks my coworkers routing on a regular basis. Terraform breaks for almost everything I've tried it with- no, deleting my infrastructure and rebuilding it from scratch is not acceptable in production. Consul is a distributed dowtime protocol, using a modern, peer reviewed consensus algorithm, and a gossip protocol for auto-partitioning of your network.
>say somebody was looking for me

street view is one of favourite tools technically literate repo men use to locate collateral

https://www.youtube.com/user/RepoNut/videos
Here in Montevideo, Uruguay, delivery is huge, and the biggest startup exit in the country was PedidosYa (sold to DeliveryHero), works in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo

https://www.deliveryhero.com/delivery-hero-conquers-latin-am...
Actively practicing Muslims, what goes through your mind on a day like today?
That's the basis. It's a type of "social engineering". And It's more about finding specific types of people who are more likely to follow than anyone else.

"just following a bunch of people" nets very low follows. My method nets a lot more. And I'm moving towards higher quality outreach now.
>> I would be interested to see what you would think of this, your statement, if you were holding the dismembered body of your father, mother, sib,ing or loved one in your arms. Dead.

If that person died in some other unlikely way, I could use the same statement to argue that my grief entitles me to a state sponsored solution that should not be evaluated strategically, or on the basis of actual utility. Do you want an optimal outcome for everyone, or just revenge at any price?
Op-ed: (How) did they break Diffie-Hellman?
As I understand (per Wikipedia [0]) Microsoft invented XMLHttpRequest in 1999 and nothing we now consider Ajax could really exist before that.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest
>Basically if you're programmer you can find some some project on github, check that some feature missing or bug exist and just by reading code implement or fix it. If you just stick to the project coding guidelines most of the time you'll get code review, advices, requests and then contribution going to be accepted. Easy.

Eh, when we're talking about new features or major architectural changes rather than bugfixes, there's often quite a fight to get your code up-streamed when your changes are significant; it goes from "style" arguments all the way up to "your feature is a bad one"

this is probably similar to what would happen with art. If you wanted to draw a slightly better ironclad, it'd probably be pretty easy to get it accepted. If you want to change the look and feel of the whole goddamn thing, good luck with that; release your own tile set.
Here's some information about a different type of shutter, and camera, and imaging technology: http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?...
Blamed... by whom?

Oh, idiot talking heads on TV news. Who cares?

If I wanted to know what idiots on TV think, I'd watch TV.
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This essay assumes the wrong answer. The intelligence has to be built into the item, not the appliance, just as we do now. Packages have messages such as "Refrigerate after opening" on them. Anything that needs to be refrigerated will need to communicate that need, along with details such as temp, to the automated system.
I didn't see any attempt at comparison, I'm not sure where you are getting that. I think you might take a moment and asses your response.

The point being made was just that this is a bad cycle. Responding to events like this with increased hatred and racism will not lead to a reduction of tensions in France.

As you said, the point is not who is right and who is wrong. The point is to find a way to end the violence. Hatred won't do it (unless you can find a 3rd part to unite in hatred of :).
The argument shouldn't be that mass surveillance doesn't work. It clearly does something or they wouldn't want it. The point is that even if it does work, we shouldn't do it because it goes against our values. Freedom has a price.
Agree with #1

From my point of view we can't fight terrorism by war or massive surveillance. It's a matter of culture, if everyone knew about the beauty of life, and all good things that she provide, this would not happen.

Your culture allows you to link your actions to different kind of emotions, and especially the one which make you unable to hurt anyone else. This is the way religions (all of them) were spreading peace, way before the internet, when the only culture you add access to was the holy book in the nearest temple. That's what is making us different than these emotionsless animals who are manipulated to kill people and themselves.

So to stop this we need to share more values, more principles, with more people. Values and principles are carried by culture. Now think about the huge amount of free culture that governments and industries are trying to stop, to reduce and to slow down. All these torrents and files shamefully shared from all over the world, this could be the answer.

Legalising piracy and encouraging people to share more, will make the culture spread faster and reduce the number "lost" people, on the long term, or maybe even on the short term with a good old internet buzz. Let's show them how we live and how we think and how good it is.
'In early 1979, Yufe’s then-wife, Ona, showed him a magazine article
about the “Jim Twins,” a pair of long-separated Ohio twins who were
each named Jim by their respective adoptive parents. Like Yufe and his
brother, Jim Springer and Jim Lewis found each other as adults and were
astounded by the parallels in their lives, including similar jobs in
law enforcement and ex-wives with the same first name.

The two Jims had become the first subjects of the Minnesota twins
study. Yufe was intrigued and thought he and Oskar should also
participate.

...

The researchers jumped at the chance and invited them to Minnesota for a
week. Yufe and Stohr became the seventh set of twins to enter the study.'

The Study was instantiated when a potentially unusual situation occurred. People were then allowed to join the study themselves, after hearing about strange twin coincidences.

This was not a study of a random sample of twins.
It truly saddens me every time I write several paragraphs trying to get across the point about islam being used as a tool by people who couldn't give a shit about the religion. Neither on the attacker's side nor on the defending governments' sides.

Am I just not getting my point across?
Excellent article.

I remember a few years back holding my mobile to the window to take a photo of the scenery while on a turbo prop passenger aircraft. I nearly had a heart attack when I noticed the propeller had stopped spinning!

Once I got over the initial shock and realised it was just rolling shutter on the phone screen I had a bunch of fun taking photos and videos of the effect in action. I'll try and dig up one of the videos and post it here later.
Why shouldn't we imprison those who went to Syria to fight? They were fighting for the enemy, so they could be charged with treason, but even if not they could be charged with war crimes.

Unless I missunderstood the question and they wanted to imprison all those who have been in Syria.
Good to know - I was about to order the existing copy on Amazon. I'll wait.
Terrorists don't randomly spawn. They are made.

Much terrorism is an externality of Western foreign policy and a nation's abuse of it's citizens (domestic).

Whether Snowden or encryption enabled terrorism or not is TOTALLY missing or deflecting the real conversation that should be occurring. Do not fall into the trap of arguing. Ignore statements like OA. Instead ask "Why are people willing to kill themselves and others?" "What has France done / is doing so that people believe that is their best redress?" "Why do people become terrorists?". Most import of all (and the only way we will end terrorism). "How can we change the world so less people are compelled to such drastic action?"
And in fact, if you combine implicit classes with values classes (e.g. implicit class RichFoo(val value: Foo) extends AnyVal { ... }) then you're effectively just adding extension methods, and there's not even an allocation involved.
No, if there is another economic collapse, the fed will do more QE, which devalues the dollar. The best is to buy gold with your Euros.
I thought that the question was of Mach 1 in level flight, or at least not diving. And as basicplus indicates, it's well to survive the test.
That was quick.
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> I wonder what personality trait in us programmers makes us willing to work without compensation on our free time and why it doesn't seem to be present in artists

I don't think it is much more prevalent in programmers than artists. (That's why I also think that the 'show me your GH profile'-style recruitment is shortsighted; most of the best coders I've ever met (who I consider geniuses, really) had no OSS contributions at all, they just make boatloads of money at bigcos (Google, MS, fintech)).
I remember that good old around year 2000 Microsoft web design playing with them fonts and such.
Ah, good memories!
Depends, you could mount it with the sync option. This would make all writes happen right away. Not recommended on FAT formated flash devices btw, as it will cause massive amounts of writes to the table.
I think I misread your previous statement. I see you were saying that if we have armed citizens, the offenders will only use methods that don't get them shot, so bombings and other "assailant not present" offensives.

I think, however, that it's a bit of an absolute statement, as even skirmishes in the combat theaters still heavily rely on small arms from both sides. Perhaps it is possible for that to become the world we live in, however I don't see that being the case given past history.

Keep in mind the idea of an armed populace isn't a one dimensional outcome to only defend against terrorists, but as an equalizer against any assailant in a life or death situation, be they foreign or domestic.

I just want people to have the option to defend themselves if they choose. In this case, the French people did not and do not have that option. Gun laws in France makes NYC look like a paradise for gun owners.
You can now add a Facebook profile filter to show solidarity with Paris
Snowden just provided the proof. It was already common knowledge that the government had massive communications monitoring programs. They were building an enormous data center, and previous programs had been uncovered.
Maybe you should do a little research? Rakudo is backed by the Perl foundation. It's not going away and neither is the MoarVM.

Rakudo + MoarVM is going to be "it" going forward I would think. I guess we'll wait and see. That doesn't mean that other compilers won't come along because that is one of the benefits of Perl 6. All the languages you mention have different versions out there. The only one that doesn't is Perl 5 and that's because only Perl can parse Perl. That's going away with Perl 6 and that's good. Rakudo+MoarVM is great. It still leaves the door open for genius to shine.

Rakudo + MoarVM is exactly what potential Perl 6 developers want. Everything else is just gravy.

I have no idea if Perl 6 will "take off". I hope it gains traction. Watching Larry Wall got me interested enough to install it and start learning it anyway.
I did play it. That's why Sagan's description reminded me of it.
I would point fingers more at Iran vs Saudi Arabia vs ISIS than Israel. If Israel fell off the map, nothing would change.
Although work is then required to package items appropriately, rather than the refrigerator automatically knowing what to do with items.

(More on-topic,) I think the point presented still holds. It's not possible to make an air-tight spec for absolutely everything.
Nah, Jobs didn't know much about hardware or software but he was a stickler for appearance.
All the reactions are just existing positions being repeated. The NSA fans attack Snowden. The gun nuts blame gun control. The tech crowd criticizes surveillance. And all throughout, almost no information about the actual events is available.

It's all quite tedious.
This is true, and in some ways I get annoyed by this saying, because it doesn't add much value.

I think there are two better ways of evaluating a language in terms of good code/bad code:

1. Does the language (and its idioms) encourage good or bad code?

2. Does the language support strong enough abstraction facilities to allow good code to be written?

Now, of course, the problem is that people will disagree about what counts as good code, but these at least make you think about what's important in a language.

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We use it at work for mostly text, everyday, only doing calls once a week or less.

I don't see anything lacking in it as a text messenger, and it works in PC, Web and smartphones.

Unless you need the thousands of emoticons that Messenger and Line provide.
Debugging addictions
Having read the book a week ago, this post is an excellent primer on why you should read the book (which is excellent). That being said, it is not a very good foreward, because it provides nothing useful to the reader who has already picked the book up.
Claimed Breakthrough Slays Classic Computing Problem; Encryption Could Be Next
Does anyone know how having a tipped postition affects the law? I'm curious if these companies gain some sort of protection (from fulltime workers, from minimum wage laws, etc) by having their employees be paid by tip.
I used to believe that and installed CM 12.1 on my phone only to find out that the restrictions don't really work. Whatsapp was able to read my messages (automatic phone verify) when I had disabled the access. Digging around I found out this is the case even with XPrivacy (there are open issues on github) which is supposed to be more extensive. There are some situations when the blocks aren't enforced at all (like some native calls). I got a nexus 5x, android 6 permissions feature actually works.
Yes, ISIS has even publicly stated that's one of their strategies, to polarize Europe so that Muslims can no longer live in the "gray zone" of being both Muslims and Europeans, a situation ISIS views as a threat to "true" Islam.
Ask HN: Do you usually unplug during the weekend or continue to work?
Feeling like I work all of the time. What are some better techniques?
I got it from here (page 33):

http://www.liz.nl/C-DayIsComingYAPCEU.pdf

So probably not "native" executables, but compiling and optimizing nonetheless.
They can criminalize it, so that only criminals use crypto by definition. Think about tor. As a fraction of network traffic, almost no one uses it, so if you do you have singled yourself out.

Running an exit node is already a great way to end up in jail, and I would not have a warm fuzzy feeling about using tor for innocent traffic at this point, although it's perfectly legal.

Imagine how easily flagged users could be singled out if simply using crypto were a crime, and probable cause for search: e.g. you get caught using FDE on your phone or laptop at a traffic stop or the airport. Either your info is trivially purused at will by LE, or you've committed a crime by makeing it difficult and can be compelled on that basis. Either way, they're reading your mail if they feel like it.

The real value of this would be that almost no normal person would want to risk prosecution, so the overwhelming majority of user data could be easily mined. These are just a couple of crypto tools, but the technical details don't really matter here, I think this is a legal and social strategy that will generalize well, and it I think this is where we're inevitably headed.
France has strict gun laws but that did nothing to prevent the attack. Instead it turned the good people into defenseless farm animals waiting their turn for slaughter.
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After you run 2to3, you still have to go through the changes and manually audit them for correctness.

Since pretty much everything has at least one print statement, its removal ensured that everything had to be converted.

If Guido&co had tried to maintain backwards compatibility, they could have more easily made the important semantic changes (like unicode strings). Users would have been enthusiastic to upgrade, instead of angry that their time and money was being wasted on irrelevant syntax details.