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Yes, I know about legit re-submissions, but as you said this is not the case.

And I totally regret pointing it out since my karma has suffered great damage...

Still, one can take down all the new stories if they want, to promote their content for example, by using such methods.

Wish I could just delete my parent post but unfortunately I can't...
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Didn't we know that ever since E=mc² ?
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I will preface this by saying my understanding of particle physics is very basic...

Yes, that is correct. The Higgs particle is also extremely unstable and decays into two photons almost immediately.
Well politicians put an escape clause in the do not call for themselves, I wonder if it applies to associates as well.
Having read a few pieces in Jacobin from time to time, your first guess might not be too far off.
>> (The firewall would need to re-expand the rich text using this OLE, then scan the word doc, then repackage. Unsurprisingly nothing on market seems to. Jeez - stick to plain text)
I'm really surprised that those dedicated anti-spam components like Barracuda, or those enterprise apps like ESET which hook into Exchange, don't perform this sort of analysis already. The volume of incoming mail even for a large organization would be pretty easy to analyze every single byte of every single message coming in and check it for certain things.

Barracuda rack-servers' sole purpose is to block spam and viruses, do they really not do deep-inspection? I mean every Win32 binary, even if packed, compressed, dynamically self-modifying, whatever, still needs an entry point. Those bytes still need to be embedded into your plain text somewhere, even if it isn't via the SMTP attachment standard. The attack vector surely must have some commonality (haven't read any post mortems but if it's an OLE exploit, "contentType="application/vnd.ms-word" is going to be there in straight up ASCII).

Either way, one might not know what's in a binary, but you can definitively determine when something is a binary, at which point, anything which isn't white-listed doesn't get in. Is this just a matter of network admin's not being able to be aggressive enough with their filtering policies and/or GPO? The next line of defense would be to only let white-listed signed apps run which is fairly trivial with Win 10[1]. Disable the ability to install extensions in your white-listed browser (Firefox Youtube Downloader Plus!! Awesome!! is likely to have adware that's bundled in), disable Flash, and one would have a pretty sanitary network right?

Edit: Yeah, I should have finished reading the article. He mentioned application whitelisting too as a defense. Critical environments with good security will not be effected by this. Also, the author mentioned "most" anti-viruses won't detect this-- I don't have a Barracuda box to test against, but I'll bet $10 it catches this. So yeah, there are (quite a few) defenses within a properly locked down environment.

Clever find though.

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd723683(v=ws.10...
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I hate to be negative about progress but I wish companies would stop deploying DOCSIS and other time division multiple access strategies like that. Because DOCSIS is TDMA based its always going to have a problem with latency jitter and performance consistency and yet cable companies like to pretend it's the same as active Ethernet. Comparing 1gbit cable to 1gbit Ethernet is like comparing a dslr and a smartphone based on their megapixels.
I think that this trader's recovery had a lot more to do with skill than others are giving him credit for. His key insight was the following:

"It occurred to me that Mexico might be willing to restructure its deal—selling us back the option it owned, and buying a new one—in a way that would lock in billions of profits for the country, while giving me a much needed windfall too."

Many traders (especially inexperienced ones) suffer from a bias to sell their winners too quickly, so that they can lock in the satisfaction of making a winning trade. By putting himself in the other side's shoes, this trader was able to find one of the few ways out of his predicament.
This should be used as an example of why the NSA's capturing of 'metadata' is really a problem. It's basically the same thing and is a big deal.

Sucks that Uretsky couldn't help himself to get a sense of what the Clinton camp was thinking tho
I imagine "matter" as commonly understood would contain at least electrons and protons, but they would just be making electrons and positrons. Can we make protons/neutrons out of light too?
But pushing it into space does open up some interesting possibilities. There must be some very exotic chemistry during and after a supernova, or when a comet has an unusually close encounter with a star.
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Software estimations are impossible
But nobody tries to use 'df' for deflate.
At least, no blatant generalization in your link:

> But seriously, you know who can’t take a joke? White guys.

Ugh, seriously? Naturally, followed by the "I have white male friends". Would the author would find her own text acceptable if the word "white" was replaced by "black" and "male" by "female" or "gay"?
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> How on earth is stuff like that legal?

There's even weirder stuff: more than half of the states allow people to declare their party affiliation when registering to vote anonymously. Some of them use those declarations to limit access to the primary elections and I'm sure they are very useful in the gerrymandering phase.

It's really the lowest possible form of democracy. The next step is the single party system.
Changing the precision on the clocks and inducing some level of randomness seems like a good idea. Combine this with styles of orders that are conditional (e.g., buy if price <= x) and we'd have something that looks a lot like FP's "atoms" -- apply the function, and if the change isn't invalid due to race conditions, keep. Perhaps this might result in bids that are more "say what you mean" than the current economically favorable games of bluffery, opponent-baiting, and chicken.

The El Farol Bar Problem is great reading; thanks for that link.
Thanks to cygx in another thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10793782) for the link to the release announcement: https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/christmas-is-he... .
Your life expectancy is about 80 so, unless you waste your health, you can expect to be around for a few more years. Even if you come to the conclusion that you wasted 5-10 years, that's only a tiny fraction. Learn from your failures, grow, get better at living a life worth living.
> I am happy to answer any questions you might have.

I don't have time to learn about this now, unfortunately, but I'll put these resources on my list. Thanks for the reply!
One of the possible side effects of a focus on success above all else is a crippling fear of failure; reports of stress and mental illness in grade school are mirroring reports of total breakdowns in college, often over things that aren't significant at all. The problem is that we're telling these people that failure is not an option, that if you fail now it ruins you. The more we say it, the more true it is, as students race for the A+. It is, after all, an arms race. However, we miss an important lesson, that failure is inevitable and even important. Some venture capitalists will not fund someone who hasn't failed 3 times before, because they know that failure is a function of both effort and environment, and a failure followed by more effort shows that when the environment lines up the entrepreneur in question will still be putting in effort.
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Apart from intellectual entertainment, why would anyone create another general purpose language ?
Isnt there more than enough choice already ?

I really want to, but I struggle to come up with enough features or syntactic tricks to justify creating a new language.

What would your motivation be?
Technically Aol is Verizon now ;). Cheers from an ex-Aoler.
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This YouTube video explains it really well. https://youtu.be/kixAljyfdqU
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But how big is the jitter? A bit of searching suggests it's typically under a millisecond, and that's barely anything. Most modems I've seen have a baseline latency of something like 20 milliseconds.
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They knew that it was possible in theory, as the article mentioned. This experiment will be a concrete demonstration of that theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positronium
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Just out of interest, why all the negativity towards IEX here on HN?

Wouldn't it be a good thing for them to compete with the other exchanges?
I have had students in engineering with me that were older than you right now.

Some went into medicine, some worked in shops, but all decided to change their lives at around your age. And it works!

I'm not saying engineering is the only way, I'm saying go talk to people and do interviews and see what college degree will give the skill set and job that you could see yourself doing.
One can use the same Go style concurrency in C with libmill [1].

Another interesting choice for concurrency would be lthread [2].

What’s special about lthread is that it allows you to

make blocking calls and expensive computations, blocking

IO inside a coroutine, providing you with the advantages

of coroutines and pthreads.

[1] http://libmill.org/

[2] https://github.com/halayli/lthread
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> The next step is the single party system.

Given that politicians of all colors and countries mostly listen to whomever lines their coffers, we already have this system.
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This is another in a long series of misdirections about income inequality by Tyler Cowen.

More details:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/11/desperate-effort-by-t...

>Of all the causes behind growing income inequality, in the longer run this development may prove one of the most significant and also one of the hardest to counter.

Well, that's pretty much why you chose to invent this little story, isn't it Tyler?

In unrelated news, robots are totally going to steal your job, which may prove one of the most significant and also one of the hardest causes of income inequality to counter:

https://www.aei.org/publication/will-robots-terminate-the-us...
On the other hand, actual biology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_crab (and re: the "mammals" comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentinosaurus)
This is exciting. Not sure how they will go from electron-positron creation to protons which needs quarks, but according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_creation

Summary: Matter creation is the conversion of massless particles into one or more massive particles. Since all known massless particles are bosons and the most familiar massive particles are fermions, usually what is considered is the process which converts two bosons (e.g. photons) into two fermions (e.g., an electron–positron pair). This process is known as pair production.

So technically, it is a matter creation.
I believe you are anthropomorphizing too much. On what basis would it update its goals? What is the reason it would do so, and why does that reason make sense in the context of it's prior goals?

More likely I think it mift learn from Bostrom's book that it has reason to fear human intervention.
I encrypt it symmetrically after creating a tarball and store it in my password manager as a secure note.

I wrote a blog post a while ago about the same: ttp://srijanshetty.in/technical/safely-storing-gpg-keys/
That's okay, you can just call up Comcast's customer service agents and they'll be super polite and friendly and make all sorts of wonderful promises while they fail to do anything useful at all.
Ask HN: What did you use to control your holiday light show
After driving around Christmas night looking at all the light displays and binge watching The Great Christmas Light Fight http://abc.go.com/shows/the-great-christmas-light-fight I've decided to try to put a small display together for next year.

I'm good on the construction and assembly of frames to mount the lights on. My question is what to use to control the lights. I'm sure that some of you have holiday displays running. Can you post what controller(s) you are using? How are you synchronizing lights across the display? Are you using multiple controllers (why yes, I do have a Beowulf Cluster of light controllers).

I figure if I start now I'll have a chance in being done for next year. Thanks for your help!
FB does that - http://www.computerworld.com/article/2998923/internet/facebo...
Practical lock-freedom (2004) [pdf]
>People around me have always engaged in things that seemed excessively wasteful to me (going to movies, partying, drinking)

How are these activities wasteful? Please elaborate. What activities would you not consider to be wasteful?
And matter can be programmed.

There need to be some laws and regulations against Artificial Intelligence.

What if an A.I. Became airborne and it already knows how the human anotomy works with robotic presicion it can create our own demise.

A.I. is the next nuclear bomb and people are not thinking or even smart enough to really grasp the responsibility of creating dark matter / programmable matter.
I think (at least hope) people do care about freedom, but they're just not even aware that freedom is an option. So we should at least try to educate them about the option of freedom.

I believe a lot of people aren't aware that with AOL internet, you could run a web browser while connected and have access to the normal www. That was the case in the early 2000's - was it different before then?
But not IPv6, which is a shame. Can't wait for Free to get their act together and wire my apartment to a better fiber connection.
Accessing data that was made available to you through the reckless indifference of others, but is still meta-theoretically-philosophically forbidden, is a violation of the CFAA. When will the grand jury indict?
Go read Satoshi's first announcement of Bitcoin on the crypography list. The very first question ever is about scalability and he states quite clearly that he thought about it extensively and it would never be an issue in practice. He uses Visa as an example to illustrate his point.

Now go read the Lightning white paper. They also use Visa as an example and state that Bitcoin cannot scale. They directly contradict Satoshi on literally the first Bitcoin topic ever discussed.

So I am not speaking for Satoshi in my post above: I am pointing out that he strongly disagreed with Poon & Dryja's reasoning right from day one.

As you can see above, Joseph uses the same language some of the other Bitcoin Core folks use ... they like to say "our understanding is much better now". They do not like to explain exactly what this "better understanding" actually is, given that computers haven't got any slower. They just assert that it could never work. That's unfortunate.
I won't speak for all of HN, but what bugs me about them is that they are using scare tactics & misleading story telling to position themselves as the "good guys" in a fight with the "bad" HFT.

In reality their business model is to drive uninformed order flow to highly sophisticated hedge funds & to let those hedge funds deny the rest of us price discovery.

That said, I don't mind that they exist, I just wish they'd stop acting like they are doing it for the good of the "average" investor (whatever that is).
Find a specific field your language would be useful to.

I tend to think that having it be a scripting language (eg. one that's ment to be used as, for example, creating quests / scripting events. Like old Gothic [I and II] used to have) justifies creating it (and potentially could be useful, since the main contenders as far as I am aware are AngelScript, LUA and Squirrel - so there's not a plethora of choices to choose from).

Though you could find any other field where the language could be used for.

Perhaps processing data, or maybe analyzing human language. Whatever you can come up with.

Then it kind of makes sense :D
US politicians are far less aware about data privacy issues than their EU counterparts.

Assembling a detailed profile of an individual in the US is quite expensive, for very fine-grained values (think dossier, history-of-life levels) of "detailed", if you are putting together a mass marketing campaign. The actual publicly-available voter data however, is relatively straightforward and is necessary to prevent basic voting fraud. US citizens who participate as election judges can get this data. The data as described in the article is the voter's name, address of record (determines which elections they may participate in, like local referendums), and which elections they participated in. If they participate in primaries, it notes which primary, but this is far from a solid indication that a specific voter is Democrat, Libertarian, Republican, Socialist, etc.; they could be participating to try to help throw a primary to select a weaker candidate against their preferred candidate, they could simply be expressing a preference for particular opposition candidate they admire, etc.

As an aside, that common complaint from techies "this solution was shoved down our throats by management, we were not given a choice?" That's precisely because while at work, techies tend as a group to treat the sales and marketers cold calling techies as "intrusive-as-hell", turning away even respectful cold calls with disdain, while managers as a group tend to give pitches more of a cautious hearing-out.

Earlier in my career, taking all cold calls, out of curiosity because I realized I didn't know everything there was to know about every field, and driving the conversation quickly to establish potential ROI for my organization, helped give me a boost because while my managers got the recognition, they remembered who brought in the idea in the first place when it came time for promotions and raises.

Only a fraction of the cold calls I took panned out, but they usually only lasted 5-10 minutes each (many of which I redirected and then took during my lunches), I only got 1-3 a week at most (lots of weeks no cold calls), I nearly always learned a new aspect about a technology I didn't know before, I almost always networked with a new technologist/engineer (getting their personal email let me keep up with them, and some of these contacts paid off down the road), and I only needed one or two suggestions to my managers to pay off every other year or so. On those that I saw promise in, I would invest more time in off-hours (vendors are always willing to meet with you at convenient times for you) to investigate. Even if a suggestion is turned down by management, as long as I couched it in business benefits, with a quantified presentation, it raised my profile to my managers as business-aware, and helped me later establish a gatekeeper role in technology selection. I have more specific, detailed tips I've accumulated over the years to make the process efficient, but it mostly boiled down to know what you want out of the call you are taking and be up front with it in a friendly way.
The author makes an interesting point about equity as lottery tickets.

"They call stock options a lottery ticket. I call it insurance. It sucks to have worked at a startup which did make it big and to not have made anything off it. Incidentally, I know quite a lot of people who either forfeited their stock options or sold them very cheaply, on the theory that equity is worthless. Trust me, if you're working for a startup, this is the one accident you want to be insured against."

Calling it "insurance" is probably taking it too far, but there is merit to this analogy, and it certainly is the case that equity is not worthless. With many startups, you can negotiate a decent base salary, and still receive enough equity to make you very well of if the company does take off.
> They are all unbelievable [sic] biased and political.

Of course they are. Everything is political, because everything affects people. The idea that some people have that technology (or anything else) is somehow not political is extremely naive.

The point of my comment was that you seem to be addressing the factions themselves as a topic instead of discussing the subject matter itself. Your new reply does a lot of the same.

> reframing other peoples actions towards your critique on it?

Obviously. Are you suggesting that any critique must be made in the framing Facebook has been setting with their propaganda? Facebook gets to control the stage?

> Facebook isn't lying about people pressing their support button

Quite a few people are claiming otherwise.

Did you miss Facebook's scandalous "emotional contagion" experiment? Or the various other stories about how they manipulate what people see? As usual, Facebook likes to fall back on calling these tactics "an accident" when they are caught.

> size-based exceptionalism

WTF are you talking about?

Why are you inventing a straw-man big-vs-small argument while ignoring that they are a gatekeeper with the power to monitor and manipulate social interaction.

> You probably came up with the market thing by reading my profiles joke about economists.

Nope. That was 100% based on your suggestions that the market would sort this out.
Switched ethernet is also practically TDMA. You can't send multiple packets in the same time. Although gigabit ethernet is full duplex, so you can receive and send in the same time.

Practically DOCSIS adds about 3-5 ms. Which is upper range of how much wifi adds latency.

Compare that to usual peripherals. Wireless mouses, about 50-100 ms latency, typical computer displays about 16-50 ms, flat screen TVs 80-200 ms.
Sorry. There was a 't too much. It should be:
Even people who don't use large amounts of bandwidth can benefit from high speeds.

My point is, when I went from 50/10 cable to gigabit fiber there was no change in how much bandwidth I was using. The things I did just went faster.
Are we going to be able to materialize dinner soon?