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Exactly, the guy saw his profile being raised and instead of saying "I'm not getting paid, let me litigate" he said "How can I be smart and work this to my favor?"

My porn pitch would've been:

Add a streaming video component where people can pay X/minute for 1 on 1 interaction. Allow donations. Let them sell videos for either a given dollar amount or make them freely available when a threshold is met.

Then, on top of that, run a free, ad-driven, anonymous imageboard. (Yes, a "chan.") Give each girl one, and some common spaces for grouping of similar interests. Consider images your business cards, spread them far and wide, freely. Maybe some of your videos too.

Don't sell media, sell a service. And give me a cut.
And that would make Google+ even more bizarre. How does a policy change need to be rolled out over time? If you need to tell the review staff, why don't you tell them ahead of time?
San Francisco has apartment rent control so new renters (e.g. young people moving to the city) must pay more to offset landlords' loss of rental income from long-time renters.
I make $100,000 a year and my rent is $10,000 per year, I can't imagine earning so much and spending over 1/3rd on rent out of necessity instead of choice. The new place I'm renting (starting next month) will bring my rent up to around $2,800 a month but it's a choice and an incredible place, being forced to spend so much on so little must sting a lot, especially when $100,000 year income is considered well off everywhere else. I'll be living like a king in my new place.
On a scale of 10, how much do you rate the default design of posterous?

I personally, (and many others) think tumblr has a far better design.
In fact, it is already the case that cars can be searched without warrants in many cases where houses, personal belongings, etc. cannot be.

Can you provide what these specific instances are? AFAIK, the police can't go into your trunk without a warrant. They also can't open your locked glovebox (I don't know how a closed one got away). The only thing they can do is visually inspect your car through the window.
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You're looking for this page on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek

Particularly the link that says "reading list."
I have been doing what the author describes for some time now (although I dont get up as early) and I find, that it works well to go to bed at any time on friday & saturday evenings as long as you give yourself enough time to sleep in as long as you want on the following day. On Sunday however, I will go to bed just as "early" as on e.g. Monday.
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I wonder how long this cycle will last.
Check out http://www.endicia.com/Products/.
Screenshot for posterity as I'm sure it won't last long.
Does the defendant's fate hinge on the contents of this laptop? It seems not: the article mentions other evidence against her.

If a case hinges entirely on the contents of an encrypted laptop, perhaps it's not the strongest of cases... which is kind of the point of the fourth and fifth amendments: keeping the government honest, so to speak.
this is kinda lulz
With 10 years between each such 'mode', and the differences still being relatively minute, it would take centuries to morph C into something else. Which is a good thing, don't get me wrong. It just shows that the proposed approach isn't feasible.
First of all, thanks for submitting my blog post on this site jashkenas. It's an honour.

And I agree with you, jnbiche. CoffeeScript is a groundbreaking language that makes any client-side development enjoyable. It makes all the JavaScript frameworks so much more interesting and easy, and you can learn to use everything so much faster. Everyone with any programming experience should try it out because it is that easy to learn.

Thanks for sharing!
If you're boot strapping a business you'll want to have a base level of understanding which will save you thousands in legal fees. It's one thing to get legal strategy for $300-$400/hour, it's another thing to pay that for basic legal explanation.
No it's not but it is what people have often taken as one of the main effects of Moore's law and it is the phenomena the implications of who's end the article is discussing. And those implications are important even if they aren't directly related to Moore's law.
Awesome, thanks a ton. The Amazon link is pretty much the mother lode.
74 is likely the take home rate of the contractor. I bill out at more than double that - but I don't take home $74/hour.

Its a fucked up situation for many contractors; they are the ones doing al lthe work, and are typically billed out at 3 times what they make. The employers will say "we have to cover costs like payroll and benefits" and then turn around and charge the employee many hundreds of dollars for the benefits package (mine is 1200/month to cover my whole family.)
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SF is pretty expensive, but more of Silicon Valley (both jobs-wise and population-wise) is in the San Jose area, which is considerably more reasonable. Still not cheap, but not $2600/1-bd level; that kind of rent will get you a 2-bd house.
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> If you can swing it the sweetest deal you can get is to work remotely for a company in SV with the SV salary.

I have essentially negotiated this. I get calls from recruiters all the time from SV, offering me 'huge' raises. I'm like "well, see, that's nice, but I'm going to need at least a 70% raise from that to compensate for the cost of living adjustment". They get real quiet.
Thanks, uniqueness typing has been a bit of a hobby of mine for a few years, so I'm familiar with 1 & 2. Uniqueness in system-level languages, however, is not something I know so much about, so something like 3 is pretty interesting.
It isn't about the technology stack!
+1, at least basic info of what it is, its uniqueness and how to use is missing.
Your conclusion is not based with facts. Most landlords in the city do not have rent-controlled properties. That is a fact you can look up in the City websites. Therefore, the argument that rent is going up to offset rent-controlled properties is fallacious. :-)
Holy fuck. With the current exchange rate, this translates into a monthly salary of 59 000 Swedish crowns. This is a VERY respectable salary here, in any field.

Hell, I know plenty of programmers working for half that. Which is still considered very decent pay.

How can you Americans get paid so much? Where is the imbalance? On your side? On our side? If the latter, how can we (the rest of the world) take advantage of this?
Just went through your site - instant bookmark!

Great work collecting it. I would do some user-tests on the landing page though. It needs a tiny bit more content and a clearer 'best path' call-to-action.
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I know the web moves fast, but you got a good laugh out of me for calling something someone came up with in a thread yesterday "historical reasons" :)
Oh that's neat. Thankyou.
Furthermore 1,2 and 3 seem to make an impact only in establishing the initial connection, which is not that much time, even 40% latency decrease would be less than half a second gain in most situations, and if I got it right, the article states in point 3 that only 33% of http traffic is preceded with a new connection establishment.
Comment taken from Reddit:

Actually if you read the ruling, it states that they have a recording of a conversation, transcribed in the ruling, where she basically admits what they are looking for is on the laptop. They then use existing Vermont case law where some perv had child porn on his laptop that an officer and ICE agent witnessed before getting locked out of the laptop. The case law the judge quotes says "where the existence and location of the documents are known to the government, no constitutional rights are touched, because these matters are a foregone conclusion." So basically the established case law they are using is where they already knew for sure the perv's laptop contained the evidence they are looking for because they saw it firsthand. In this lady's case, they know the laptop contains the documents they are looking for because they have her recorded saying so. The judge states as much in the ruling: "There is little question here but that the government knows of the existence and location of the computer’s files."
So as much as people are freaking out about this, I don't think this is definitive case law that says the 5th amendment doesn't ever apply. The Vermont case and now the Colorado case both hinge on the government knowing that what they are looking for is on the encrypted drive because they saw it and have an admission to it respectively. This is what the ruling states in my opinion.
The 5th amendment may still apply if they don't know for sure the encrypted drive contains what they are looking for, that is to say they never saw the contents nor you admitted to it containing the contents which they seek.
In Defence of the eBook
Did EA really release the source code of command and conquer? I could not find it!
An open internet is more important than corporations. They have failed us because of their natural greed. They must be changed.

To be fair, evil greedy corporations also prevented SOPA

An open internet is more important than security, copyright infringement, terrorism or child pornography. We will not be fooled by the strategies of fear employed by those who wish to censor us.

This is the kind of false dichotomy the enemies of an open internet want to create. The point is that we can fight all these things and still have a free internet.

Finally, the URI to IP table is confused. Example

http://hoop-la.ca/freedom.txt: 70.66.72.121

But http://70.66.72.121/freedom.txt fails because of the missing hostname.

This is slacktivism at its worst.
I've been looking at these posts that complain about the cost of living in Silicon Valley for a while, and thought that things were pretty bad. But when comparing to my home country, Norway, things don't seem very bad at all. Granted, Oslo is supposed to be the most expensive city in the world...but from all the complaining I hear from the tech crowd, you'd think the difference wouldn't be large. But Wolfram Alpha reports a 45% / 37% cost of living difference in favor of SV:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=moving+from+Mountain+Vi...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=moving+from+San+Fransis...

This is on the top of the fact that we pay, in total, around 50% tax.

Housing is more expensive in SV, but everything else is much cheaper than where I'm from. Are these numbers accurate? Because if they are, then, pardon me for being blunt, you guys are really whining a lot. You must be living in one of the places on Earth with the highest ratio of income to expenses. That the cost of living is higher than in the US in general doesn't really seem like an argument to me. You're pretty much swimming in money over there.
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> their answer to generics requires run-time type checking for every operation

Go has no built in answer to generics. Trying to rebuild generics with other language features won't make it better.
I use social networking in two countries, Taiwan and Germany, and less than half of my contacts use their "passport name" on FB. Almost none of my contacts are hackers.

In fact, only the hackers I know use their real names online because they're freelancers and build a presence. I wonder if that leads to the assumption among hackers that only weirdos would ever need this feature. Stating that only n% of n% of n% would ever need privacy actually sounds even more insulting than just calling us "weirdos".
Don't spoil it. The most hilarious part is watching people jumping in and make serious discussions about this with their highly knowledgeable views and technical authority.

That said, the irony is cheap, too obvious. Feels like the author was afraid of being taken serious.
Not surprisingly, many bought it, so on to the LULZ!
Wow, great job! Surprisingly addictive.
I can tell you from direct experience this doesn't scale. That was in 1991 when the internet was a much smaller place.

What's with mapping URLs to IP addresses anyway? That's completely wrong ...
As a Norwegian I was thinking the exact same thing, ref. my comment about cost of living differences in the other comment tree. And this is the _average_ salary we are talking about. Granted, Americans work longer hours and have fewer holidays...but the difference can't be _that_ large. Maybe it's time to relocate.
Looks like you're duplicating work by ignoring /etc/hosts.

Don't ignore history. HOSTS is simple, ubiquitous and it just works.

But I think you're on the right track if you follow this line of thinking.

What we want is a shared HOSTS file again. Everyone both collects IP address info and shares it. We take the power of centralisation away from ICANN/IANA/DOC and give it back to the users.

This was how it was before DNS. And it can easily be like that again.

What's changed since the 80's when DNS was adopted over HOSTS?

1. Storage space is plentiful. We can store millions of IP addresses on our devices if we want to. No problem.

2. The net is not expanding rapidly as it was back then in terms of new nodes being added. Most new websites coming online are either garbage, e.g. used for spam, or they are under the umbrella of shared hosting, i.e. existing nodes, or some combination of the two. Keeping pace with today's rate of expansion is easy.

3. DNS is used for various tricks that it was not designed for, e.g., CDN's and load balancing. And people have gotten carried away with CNAME games. So anytime anyone talks about abandoning DNS on the internet (cf. internal networks), some people get peeved. Because they are heavily invested in DNS tricks. They are overlooking the basic purpose of DNS: to give you an IP address.
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If you haven't already I would really recommend you to read the book:

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

http://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/03...

Great detailed historical perspective and lots of aha moments.
Just start some alternative root servers. There's nothing that makes the current roots authoritative except for convention and a hardcoded list of IPs. It's not even hard to start up a server that can act as the authoritative source for blocked domains and pass through requests to the real roots for everything else.
Fair. Probably not the best wording on my part.

For context, I've been in contact with the original poster and did not want to separate our efforts. This idea was suggested in the last thread, and I thought it was worth a try.

Leveraging what's already out there seemed like a good idea.
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People have been warning developers to 'get ready for multithreading' for at least a decade and somehow everything is mostly the same. Mostly because of abstractions (e.g. on GPUs) and also because the USERS of our software are ALSO getting parallelised! So we're back to one thread for one user, since most of the time you really don't want to do loads of work for one user request. Cases where parallelism matters (graphics, data stores, query engines) are already pretty solid on multithreading anyway.

Meh.
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"1996 - James Gosling invents Java. Java is a relatively verbose, garbage collected, class based, statically typed, single dispatch, object oriented language with single implementation inheritance and multiple interface inheritance. Sun loudly heralds Java's novelty.

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See the comments above regarding ridiculous rents and taxes. After all that it we're really talking about ~$50k or less take home pay, decent but not great. Still I'd expect there to be more activity and competition in tech jobs in SV vs. Sweden.
Black terminals with green fronts are a colorscheme optimized to the human eye. Doesn't look fancy, it goes straight to the point, which is what hacking is about in some way.

People find this good looking because it looks flashy, hip, modern, elegant, it has a twitter icon, etc.

I for one still don't understand why hackers care about site that look beautiful. If i can read it comfortably that's all it matters to me.
But I often get comments like 'are you playing on a spectrum?' when people look at my screen.
Lets trade places. Seriously though SV is decent but America is not exactly the top place to be living anymore in comparison to a place like Norway despite all the 'USA, USA' chanting we do. I'd gladly pay a boatload in taxes if it would genuinely get us out of our current messes.
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LOIC is a simple tool which executes a SYN flooding attack. I wonder why this wasn't mentioned here in the comments yet.

It works like this: Your computer asks to open a TCP connection by sending a SYN packet to the server. The server responds with SYN/ACK. Your computer is expected to send ACK to complete the 3-way-handshake and to establish the connection. Except for, in this attack, your computer never sends ACK.

The server usually reserves a few resources to maintain that half-open connection, such as a socket and a thread that waits for the connection to finish.

If enough people do this, the server runs out of resources rather quickly and it's practically impossible to block it without a server farm. Even if a firewall-script prevents the server from crashing by limiting the number of open (half-open) connections, by blocking attacking IP addresses and by reducing their timeout, it can't be distinguished between legitimate traffic and DoS-traffic.

So, given that a single computer easily pumps out several hundred or even thousand requests per second, the amount of traffic quickly grows when many users are involved.

By the way, with a single computer, it is more or less impossible to take down a server with only SYN flooding, as your computer requires more or less the same computational power to establish the connection and most servers have more RAM and a bigger connection to the internet.

It really gets messy, when you use encryption, where the server has to do more computational work than a client. Then, you can easily DoS a server from a single computer. However, this is NOT done with the LOIC, but there was a tool recently that performs this kind of attack against, I forgot, I think Apache with a vulnerable OpenSSL version.

So, this whole attack is on OSI layer 4 and is indeed a TCP-based attack. HTTP traffic is on layer 5+ and it's not possible to achieve half-open TCP connections with a browser.

Nevertheless, a DoS is still possible. There are two ways:

1. Many clients ask simultaneously for a computational expensive operation. For example, some sort of filtering mechanism for the member list of a community site. Depending on the database backend, such a request can cause a more or less sophisticated SQL query.

These are usually the places where programmers should optimize their queries (or use caching etc.) to prevent the server from crashing.

2. Simply ask for a resource like an image or a larger JS-file, but do this often with many clients. This happens also, when a small blog writes a good article and is linked on HN or reddit. The incoming traffic is too big be handled.

Generally speaking, it depends heavily on the server's environment regarding caching, optimization, load balancing, a firewall script, an Intrusion Detection/Prevention System etc. whether or not a browser-based attack can be successful.
I'm not a con law scholar, but I think he's referring to Carroll v US and subsequent ruling, summarized on Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_exception .
Nice one. I really liked this one though:

1958 - John McCarthy and Paul Graham invent LISP. Due to high costs caused by a post-war depletion of the strategic parentheses reserve LISP never becomes popular[1]. In spite of its lack of popularity, LISP (now "Lisp" or sometimes "Arc") remains an influential language in "key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension"[2].

[1] Fortunately for computer science the supply of curly braces and angle brackets remains high.

[2] Catch as catch can - Verity Stob: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/11/exception_handling/
I think grandparent means that the kernel's TCP implementation handles subsequent retransmits, etc, whereas with UDP that's all up to the application. Maybe a TFO SYN is somewhat equivalent to a single UDP packet, but every packet after that gets to take advantage of TCP's reliability, which is obviously not handled by UDP.
Off topic, but can anyone tell me the history of

[SOME DATA FORMAT]

---

[SOME OTHER DATA FORMAT]

?

I'm sure there must be a better way to have multiple data types in a single file than just searching for '\n---\n' and splitting, no? What's the general principal when one data-block has a '\n---\n' in it's data?

I first saw it in Jekyll, I believe they call it 'Front Matter' (Though their implementation seems to be using a '---\n' to start the block) but I can't find any more information on it. Is it some sort of standard/specification/thingy I've completely missed?
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