skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's potentially an interesting discussion to be had here about the technical and political effects of ham radio during disruptions in "official" centralized communications systems, e.g. during a coup or counter-coup crackdown. But of course we're just getting a "Turkey politics 101" thread instead.
Have to agree. I read a Post Incident Review like this and I'm like "Yep, totally see how that could happen. Thanks for solving it and thanks for letting me know why it happened".
Guilty. I wanted to be up-front about the constant factor of 1 or 2. I was tired when I wrote that and was actually looking at cleaning that up a couple days ago, but got distracted. Soon.
10 Modern Software Over-Engineering Mistakes
Why does this work exactly?

I did this once on a flight by accident using Apple earbuds then confused myself when I couldn't replicate it. Thanks for the tip.
I wonder why regex libraries don't do this then? Isn't /\s+$/ backreference free? Or does including the anchor change that?
The big list of collective nouns for animals is just a made up thing, sort of like a book of poetry.

There are a small number of ye olde Englishe words for some types of groups (like school of fish) and some of the fanciful names from the book have moved into common usage, but the dramatically expanded version is not known to have ever been actually used

some info here https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/view/resour...

this is one old source
https://archive.org/details/cu31924031031184
ArsTechnica seems to have the most detailed and best linked (PDF + DoJ press release) article as of now:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/kickasstorrents-a...

Somewhat more/complementary details seem to be available on: https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-... — e.g. regarding methods:

[...] The complaint further reveals that the feds posed as an advertiser, which revealed a bank account associated with the site.

It also shows that Apple handed over personal details of Vaulin after the investigator cross-referenced an IP-address used for an iTunes transaction with an IP-address that was used to login to KAT’s Facebook account. [...]

Some aspects which seem interesting to me, from what is reported:

• that apparently KAT owner tried to shield off DMCA takedown requests (which I'd see as trying to affirm being legal);

• that according to the articles he seems to not have used Tor (or fumbled in it).

(Assuming no parallel construction and that he's actually the guy, etc. etc.)

EDIT: I couldn't really find any Polish sources — suppose because it's middle of the night here... (the single article — http://www.dobreprogramy.pl/Zalozyciel-Kickass-Torrents-zatr... — seems to be written based on the above English-language ones)
Depends on how long you're transmitting for. If you're transmitting to repeaters (which take in a signal on one frequency and rebroadcast on another), the time required to find you will go up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIGAOLJh-XE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_repeater
SF regulations (something about requiring the rental be roundtrip vs one-way I think) prevent Car2Go from existing in SF. This is really annoying as it's just sitting there while I have to rush to make sure I do my task in the allotted time I've set then race back to the car's parking spot before time is up.

Zipcar has been quietly asking about this in surveys they give out. My guess is they're probably going to fight car2go if they try to get the regulation overturned and if not, just join them in the same game.
Cynical and long rant alert:

From a psychological standpoint and my own experience, as you grow older, it becomes harder and harder to resist bribes or being bought out to inject vulnerabilities in a software/hardware you work on. Idealism lasts 5 (maximum 10) years of heavy work during which you squander the seemingly infinite energy of your youth, then you become very tired, then you make it worse with coffee, energy drinks and all-nighters, then you destroy several possible relationships and friendships, you become grumpy and cold, and one day you find that you don't care about what's good for the world anymore.

You also find yourself staring at your ceiling and wondering WTF are you doing with your life. And unless you're one of the rarer human beings who is actually decisive and has the courage to make a U-turn and change your life to exactly what you want from it, then you'll be stuck for life.

Now imagine we fast-forward lots of years later. At 35-45 you no longer care about most (or all) of your youth ideals. All it takes is one phone call or email offering you a 5-digit figure and you're bought out. And if the sum is 6-7 digits then forget about it, you'd sell the entire humankind. We can all pretend to be on high moral thrones but I am sure most people wouldn't think for more than 2 minutes after they receive the said phone call or an email.

So at this point, I simply can't believe anyone when they say they really want privacy and security to be enforced and to try and beat NSA & Co. in their own game. I know I want to, if only out of spite and to show them they're not so awesome as they think, but meh, I am not an electric or electronic engineer. I can't reverse-engineer a chip. I can't devise a new chip. I can't isolate equipment in a room and try and check if it emits signals I don't want it to emit. I can't hack the kernel of my Android phone and kill its services who always drain my battery.

Basically, I can't do almost anything about it. So I am thinking about it on a human level. Humans are easily bought. If not, they are even easier to threaten.
Reminds me of Microsoft Illumiroom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2w-XqW7bF4
Wow pretty desperate marketing for a design flaw.
Law enforcement can triangulate ham radio signals. From what I understand it's relatively easy to do in the US.
Well, the world also watched as Hitler unfolded.

Who knows how this is gonna end? Pass the popcorn...
There are public dumps of Stack Overflow's database. https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
Ok, I guess I could have provided more info. Do this if you own a bicycle: hold it by the saddle perfectly straight, front of the bike forward. Make it lean on the left (no forward movement). Look at the handle, it steers left.
When you're moving this means that when you lean left there will be a torque, due to your circular path you'll be following, that will try to make the bike lean right.

Bend left -> torque to the right, bend right -> torque to the left. Here you have the basic ingredient for stability: the one torqueless angle is the bike going straight perfectly vertical wrt the ground, while any perturbation leads to a torque in the opposite direction.

I felt it was basic stuff maybe it's not?
It honestly depends on the day for me. Some days are a blind rush, like today I spent all day debugging a release blocking issue with a colleague via slack. Other days are, well, not nearly so productive.
I'm thinking perhaps you didn't get the Silicon Valley reference?
I'm questioning a list like this with no Martin Fowler or Adrian Cockcroft
> Are there mechanisms that an enforcement authority can use to find your physical location?

Yes, it's unimaginatively called "direction finding". Hams often do it as a sport, and sometimes to locate unlicensed operators causing interference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_direction_findin...

> Is it possible to ostensibly rebroadcast a government-approved channel, but with additional stenography or mixing to embed information?

Absolutely possible, though international amateur radio regulations prevent the concealing of information in a transmission.
Please don't export Turkey's censorship to the rest of the world.
(Mac/iPhone only)
It sounds like you found out costs exceeding cash flow is bad, not that taxes are bad. Anything taking 100% cash flow from the business is likely detrimental.

The naivety of your second paragraph suggests you think business is not operating in its own best interest. How does employee and supplier costs going up = consumer cost going down? There seem to be huge leaps being made here.

Corporate tax policy and supply/demand economics is probably too complex to try to boil down to a a short paragraph each.
Not to mention that, while I do not personally agree with Gary Johnson on many (I consistently score the lowest with him on the I side with quiz) of his policies, it's hard to ignore that quite a few of the policies he has enacted as Governor have actually worked quite well. Admittedly, I have not researched this much. I simply haven't had time this summer and when I did look at this, back in May, it didn't look like he'd get to 15%.
A Democrat, the late Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin, was well known for mocking frivolous-sounding research projects. From the Wikipedia article[0]:

"In 1987, Stewart Brand accused Proxmire of recklessly attacking legitimate research for the crass purpose of furthering his own political career, with gross indifference as to whether his assertions were true or false as well as the long-term effects on American science and technology policy."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Proxmire#Golden_Fleece...
Tracking radio transmissions is pretty well established and is even a sport for some people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_direction_findin...
Hide? Not really. Triangulation is very trivial with the right equipment. All you need is two directional receivers that are separated a bit. Rotate each one until you get the strongest signal from the broadcaster you're looking for. Now draw two lines on the map based on those two directions and you've got your probable point of origin.

You could do something like relay your signal - but your relay will be found. You could be on the move, but every time you broadcast you give away your location.

I'm not sure about Turkey, but in the USA if you're a Ham, you had to supply your address to the FCC. So if the same is true in Turkey and the ham didn't lie... well they already know who you are and where you live.
You could do it over Windows File Sharing too! \\someone-elses-machine\c\con\con would blue-screen their machine!
Speaking of dropbox, it adds its own attributes, called com.dropbox.attributes with 83 bytes of binary data, according to 'dir /r'.
The analogy is poor: on a live fire range the bullets move much more quickly than you. The speed of the bullets relative to you is largely determined by the bullets, and your speed is irrelevant - so how fast you move is naturally irrelevant (assuming random fire, of course). The chance of collision will be determined largely by the number of bullet-meters made. If you will: it's as if the bullets are exploring the space in a probabilistic/ballistic fashion - the more bullets and the faster they go, the more they can explore.

Conversely, when you hit something on the highway, it's likely to be moving much more slowly than you (e.g. the chicken crossing the road), or at a speed similar to you (the drunk guy driving on the left side). So your speed matters - you're more likely to reach that obstacle in any given period of time if you can explore more space in that time.
Wow, this sucks, I love KAT, what now? TPB is rubbish.
Correction: re.match anchors at the start, but not the end, so `^abc$` is equivalent to `abc$` but not `abc`.
I thought that ZoL and ZFS+FreeBSD were largely feature comparable?
Thanks for posting this, OP's link is broken for people with adblockers.
Is there a meaningful performance difference between ZFS in FreeBSD or Illumos and ZoL?

Edit: this is a legitimate question. I know previously Linux-related ZFS efforts used FUSE, but ZoL is native. I assume performance should be roughly equivalent between Linux and FreeBSD, certainly.
It's simply not immutable and decentralized anymore. Just another distributed computatiom technology (and rather slow for that)
How Insurance Companies Profit from Wearables
Code Utopia
> Anyone want to take bets how long until NATO will revoke Turkey's membership?

Well, Erdogan's regime is threatening to end its friendship with the US if Gülen isn't turned over, so any termination of the relationship may not come from the NATO side.
Unstructured Datatypes in Postgres – Hstore vs. JSON vs. JSONB
A copy of 'yourself' would be transferred. The original 'yourself' is still there.
I miss VCRs. Yeah the image quality is poor next to BluRay or even standard DVDs, but I don't really care about that and the usability is much simpler. As you said, skipping previews is easy, there is no region locking, and the tapes themselves are in my experience much more durable. I've lost count of the number of times I've had to spend five minutes cleaning a DVD to get it to play without skipping or freezing. And I've easily lost hundreds of dollars worth of purchased DVDs due to scratches (I have kids). VHS tapes on the other hand never gave me any problems and always worked.
If you feel that something is trivial and potentially wasting other people's time by means of wasting pixels, I think it's fine to speak up. (Explaining why something is trivial may not be that effective, in general).

I was clearly wrong in that many people disagreed and found this to be an interesting and nontrivial subject.
America's Only Floating Post Office Delivers More Than Mail to Detroit's Ships
So is the drug war. It all depends on where you're standing.
> Headers can contain all sorts of meta-information about an image.

We accept logo images for one of our products that I work on. At one point, our system was failing because the images being uploaded were too big, so the client sent us the image they were trying to upload and we started looking.

Imagine my surprise when I started digging through the file only to find a bunch of XML... which contained binary data... which contained the original, un-resized image that the logo was created from.

Turns out that the piece of software the client used to resize their image to a smaller size, suitable for a logo upload, had an option to preserve the original file inside. Along with a bunch of other information, such as the author, date, history...
True, and it seems so unnecessary these days. I don't understand why you can't plug in some storage device and transfer it like any video on your PC.
There were radio silence orders during critical moments, such as air raids, but that's all I know of.
I like the look of the new tuple syntax (although I would call it multiple return values). From the article:

(int sum, int count) Tally(object[] values)
{
var r = (s: 0, c: 0);
foreach (var v in values)
{
switch(v)
{
case int i:
r = (r.s + i, r.c + 1);
break;
case object[] l:
var n = Tally(l);
r = (r.s + n.sum, r.c + n.count);
break;
}
}
return r;
}

object[] numbers = { 0b1, 0b10, 0b100, new object[] { 0b100, 0b1_0000 }, 0b10_0000 };
var t = Tally(numbers);
WriteLine($"Sum: {t.sum}, count: {t.count}");
Have a ton more experience with aws, but one large project has moved to GCE recently and everyone involved is beyond pleased.

The tooling and features are almost on par, and the ux is just better. Things like more powerful configuration of load balancing puts GCE over the top.

Considering how much cheaper GCE is for many projects aws is losing its appeal without some price breaks.

Also GCE is faster to launch instances by a measurable margin.
This is why ninjas partition their disk into lots of devices. :)
Interesting. I wonder if they will be allowed to remain in the ITU.
Why are you talking about Turkey?

This is now about Erdogan, Does Erdogan need NATO more than NATO needs Turkey? That's the question. Dictators tend not to care or stay rational in the "normal" sense of things.

If this coup was planned by Erdogan, then he really has good game and will play a long con on being a member of NATO while doing what he wants.
1) Power feels awesome. You'll use your power to get more power because it feels so good to see those you hate having to bow to you.

2) Educated people are dangerous as they will almost certainly doubt the legitimacy of your rule and more importantly have the ability to plot against you. Hence they must go.

I applaud your thinking, as it is empathic towards your hypothetical subjects :) However people like Erodogan do not think at such a level. Assume a primitive (but not dumb) egocentric world view in dictators. If they had empathy, they wouldn't have been able to fight to get to where they are now.
Right, except support for that has to be built into the static site generator you're using. In the React case, the user can choose how they want to do it without the SSG author caring at all. I will also say that in the case of frontmatter, react-helment is a far more powerful solution which allows defining at any point in the tree, not just a layout partial.

In addition, the React way allows you a full language to handle import/export for "templates" instead of relying on a hampered template language/partials implementation.

The key here isn't the specific instance of frontmatter, it's having the flexibility to use everything one might use to build a SPA to target static sites. This re-use of existing solutions and skills is important.
Thanks for posting this. I wasn't aware of Conner but his work is fascinating.

There is something dark and beautiful about images of bomb tests. I can't help but look at them with simultaneous awe and horror.

I highly recommend the photo book 100 Suns, but I will warn that it's a bit haunting.

https://www.amazon.com/100-Suns-Michael-Light/dp/1400041139
What's that karma threshhold, if you know offhand?
Skype for Business, aka Lync before the idiotic rebrand, uses TLS and you can set your own certs if you run your own server.
Sleeping Through a Revolution
"From the point of view of your body, it would be someone giving you anesthetic, and then killing you."

The point of view of your body ends when it is anesthetized. That's the definition of "anesthetize" that I'm using here - a reversible cessation of consciousness. (Of course, if you woke it up rather than kill it, it would continue from that point on, and then there would be two of you, one in the computer, one out, whose experiences would then diverge.)

"The copy is in no way privileged."

Never said it was. Just the opposite, in fact. Neither the copy nor the body is privileged.

"What about this experiment: ... Would you expect that when you get shot, you'll 'wake up' inside the computer? If so, by what mechanism? If not, how does this case differ from the first?"

No, the other copy of you would wake up in the computer at step 2, not step 3. At that point there would be two entities with identical histories that then begin to diverge (like a git branch). Anything experienced by the physical body after step 1 would be erased after step 3, so there would be a death of a sort involved in this scenario. The anesthetization/euthanasia steps don't do anything special or magical, they just prevent that divergence from occurring.

"Alternatively, what if we copy your consciousness into another sleeping organic brain, and wake up both of you. What makes the new copy, but not the old one 'you'?"

Nothing. You're both you (though one of you is probably more confused than the other.) We're running up against the limits of the English language, which is why correct statements can sound so absurd. We just don't have the right pronouns for this type of consciousness split.

Let me put it to you this way: Suppose that there was some sort of sufficiently-indistinguishable-from-magic device that actually "transferred" you (whatever that means to you) from an organic brain to a digital afterlife. How would the experience of that be distinguishable to you from the anesthetization/euthanasia scenario I originally described? What would be the difference, as far as the digital consciousness is concerned?
I find it interesting that a Polish man was charged by US laws, rather than under Polish law.

I think he opened himself to US law by hosting the servers at one point in the US. Regardless, it is rather fascinating that his first visit to the US could potentially be from extradition.
I think the present situation in Turkey is a great argument in favor of putting the nukes somewhere else.

I believe they're all gravity bombs, which makes them mostly symbolic, just like the nukes we store in other NATO countries.
I suppose the real question is: if git is happy to create stream "bar" on file "foo," which is arguably correct behavior under Windows, why doesn't "git status" (and everything else) just work correctly with the "foo:bar" file/stream that git created?

Would you be able to see the contents of such files with "git show"?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2071288/equivalent-in-git...
And IIRC it's tied to a single machine, so you need physical access for it to be any use.
If the options were "die" and "die, but with an immortal digital copy", I think I'd still take the second. It wouldn't help me much personally, but zyxley-2 would be able to carry my legacy forward and (hopefully) lessen the burden of grief on others.
No reason not to fork? This is 100% against everything the crypto world is all about
I highly doubt that Raymond Chen, a 24 year veteran of Microsoft and WinAPI / NT kernel expert, is shilling for marketing kudos.

He probably just thought it was a neat side effect.
I happen to agree with you 100%. I read the book this year and found it fascinating to see how easily relatable people 100 years ago were, especially since the stream of consciousness gives a better insight into their thoughts than a regular novel would. I did not however think it was a great book in itself which is why I'm curious to know what makes it great in other people's opinion (especially since I didn't find that article very supportive of it). Most of the time it felt like the author was enjoying himself more when writing it than I when reading it.
> Both of them think they are "you" and both of them are right

No: one is right, and the other believes he is right but is wrong.
Next time, you should try some addressable LEDs. Neopixels, aka WS2811/12/12B, let you set the colors of individual bulbs instead of the entire strand. They work great with ESP8266!

https://blog.adafruit.com/2015/06/30/updated-neopixel-suppor...
It seems like a lot of the most well-known pseudo-legal BitTorrent "groups" (PopcornTime, YIFY, ISOHunt, now Kat) turn out to be one-man shops, and as such, just completely dissolve as soon as their owner crosses paths with law enforcement. In some cases, these services are integral enough to the "scene" to be brought back by others. But other times, everything just stops for a while.

This seems like a bus-factor problem. Why does it keep happening? Why aren't these sites being run by multi-national teams that can survive a loss like this?

Even The Pirate Bay is "just" Swedish, so a sufficiently-motivated Swedish Government could shut TPB down. Meanwhile, there's no single country that could shut down e.g. Wikipedia.
I've the opposite issue. Skype keeps redelivering messages. Even after I've read and responded. Sometimes 8 hours after.

The UI always sucked (made me wonder why it has been mentioned as a positive example of software made outside the US) - but the basic message flow is broken now.
Thought about this some more. Reading between the lines a bit, so certainly, correct me if I get this wrong.

But it looks like this: your investors are a bigger problem than your partner. First they write this deal where you don't really own your equity, then they don't let you pay yourselves like owners. Seems to me you're really getting screwed. Seriously: what are you getting out of this job besides experience?

I'm afraid you're in the position of a wolf caught in a trap: you're going to have to chew your own leg off to get out. It'll hurt like all hell, but if you don't do it, you'll die.