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Well, yes, I know that. ;) I meant that ethically, morally, and legally, I wouldn't want to know what they have (the NSA knowing is enough; better to destroy it than make it all public, probably), but I'm curious nonetheless.
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I'm curious - why isn't UC Berkeley mentioned, but this course, taught by a Berkeley professor is listed on the right? https://www.coursera.org/course/qcomp
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I feel, Your exact method might be useful for Test servers. I won't want all my git pushes reflect on the live server. For deployment, I think it's better if one maintains the post-commit-hook to a certain branch, named, say, "Deploy". Any push to Deploy branch would make it deploy maybe?
Wow, number 9 pretty ridiculous. The perp used the Roman numeral IIII instead of IV, and that's what jewelers do, so it must be the jeweler (and this particular one)? And most expensive watches don't even follow that?

(On a side note, I have seen IIII in the 4-spot on clocks, but only in a few places in San Francisco.)
Any legally enforceable agreement is, by definition, a contract, and it's a dangerous misconception that contracts aren't binding unless money changes hands [1]. IANAL, but the ones I've hired have always been very clear on this point.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppercorn_(legal)
I find the SE format much easier to read and find the information I want.
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tl;dr: there's value in an integrated product that works and is easy to use: just ask Apple.

An 'internet portal' is still very valuable to non-techie users: it provides them a reasonably structured way to access internet services and goods. My email? Here. Stock? There. News? All over the page. Photos? You got it. Chat? Games? Calendar? The weather? Search? As long as it's good enough, it's right there so, sure.

Of course, no future-looking company wants to compete in that market with their own similar product, so until that space gets completely 'disrupted' (what Google tried to with by ripping it to pieces) or 'reinvented' (social networks being the latest incumbent) or completely 'moved' (to a different access model like mobile), many people will continue existing solutions like Yahoo.

We recently released one of our Facebook games on Yahoo. The numbers were not groundbreaking or headline material, but it still surprised us that they were meaningful.
The Cocaine Importation Agency is the largest drug cartel on earth by far.

They work directly with the 'Mexican' cartels.

Google works directly with the CIA and has since the beginning.

Don't be surprised that a marketing company is trying to sell you something.
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That was so great to read, detailed poetics from a real master. I listened to some of the stuff he felt was "sad shit". I sure agree with him on Cecil Taylor!
How do they make their money?

I know about Flickr Pro, but there has to be other stuff.
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What kind of hit piece is this?

It's all anonymous sources. I think the quote that resonates the most is the one where they say "One of her flaws at Google [was] that she was too tough with her colleagues in the early years, and these people have memories like elephants."

I mean her first day, and they have the cavalry out for her trying to bring her (and Yahoo!) down.
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> Build tools for procedural content generation that work for game designers. What if game designers could procedurally generate a map that they mostly like, and then make tweaks to it as needed? The client would download both the inputs to the procedural map generator and the tweaks, instead of an entire raw map file.

This strikes me as nothing more than an awful form of compression. Re-worded, they're saying write a lossy compression algorithm and compress the map with it, then diff the compressed version against the uncompressed. Then, send the client all of the compression algorithm, lossily compressed version, and diffs. How does this beat using a known compression algorithm?
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Thousands[1] of middle managers throughout the organization would be out on the street -which is probably a good thing?

[1] At one point Yahoo had 300+ VPs (source http://allthingsd.com/20070928/day-73-the-sleepy-attack-of-t...) , so probably not an exaggeration
We've got a reading comprehension issue. You're responding to my post about how easily you can disable data on an Android smartphone, which I proposed as a way to avoid tracking.
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In my experience, I'm competing with my colleagues, at least by some definition of "competition", and if one of them is under-performing at my expense because of a personal relationship, he's not getting high-fived.

Though at lower-skilled, lower-paid jobs I could see it being different.
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Excerpt that describes the actual mechanism:

Start with any item on the bill. The person who ordered that item pays the bill with probability equal to the cost of that item divided by the subtotal. Flip the appropriately biased coin; if that person is it, then you're done. If not, then subtract that item from the subtotal and repeat, recursively, with another arbitrary item. If you start with expensive items then you'll probably find the person who's paying after a handful of items, but it doesn't matter for fairness what order you pick things in. You won't have to figure out all the confusing drinks and appetizers (yet the outcome is as fair as if you had!).
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I watched most of Daphne's videos and had the opposite reaction - I was blown away at how good they were. I felt as though I had a world class expert standing there in front of me explaining things very clearly. I particularly enjoyed that I never felt like things were being "dumbed down". I didn't notice the comic sans - actually maybe I did subconsciously and maybe this even improved the impression on me "how quaint - someone who is so into their work they don't even realize people make fun of you for using that font". There were video and audio issues, but to me they were secondary.
Having the Certificate Authority private keys would allow an attacker to sign certificates allowing the impersonation of any entity... but it does not make other sessions, boostrapped from other legitimate certificates, transparent to passive eavesdropping.

So no, government pressure on CAs wouldn't make all https like plaintext, but it does make active impersonation possible. Some initiatives like the 'SSL Observatory' or the EFF's 'Sovereign Keys' proposal could make it possible for clients to notice when a fishy new certificate is introduced for a previously-known identity -- much like the 'key has changed' warnings you may have seen when SSHing to a host whose keys have changed since your last session.
I have to agree with you: IMO G+ on the desktop is kludgy. For example it's use of the mouseover to highlight the option buttons on the left, as well the highlighted/unhighlighted color choice, are not intuitive or what we are used to, and the number of tabs on the top for your Circles should be much higher than the default 3 (excluding the More tab). The upshot is more mouse clicks are required to get around - that bugs me.

Apart from that kind of peeve, I like G+ a lot and spend quite a bit of time there. I go to FB on occasion to see what my family and friends have posted but haven't really interacted much since engaging on G+.
Let me see if I have this right: instead of asking nicely for permission to send your errors and crash reports you want your users to setup a firewall and prevent your program from phoning home. What a dick move.

It shows you care not a whit for your customers' privacy or consent; only the data on their computers which, for some bizarre reason, you feel entitled to.
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I would rather say ssh (scp) is the new ftp.
The G+ mobile app is really nice to use. It surprises me that the G+ desktop team is lagging so much behind the mobile team.
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It's not quite that bad. Even with a compromised certificate authority, it's not an invisible attack to do a man in the middle and inject their own certificate. Someone knowledgable could notice this discrepancy and raise a stink.

Furthermore, Chrome (and soon Firefox) ships some known certificates for privacy important widely used sites (e.g. the major webmail services, torproject, etc) which prevents even this attack. This defense has already caught Iran using a compromised CA.

(I'm not a cryptographer though, so please correct me if I'm wrong.)
> if her job was to build next-generation web-hosted services, her notion of what was possible

I'd say anyone in that position really ought to be trying stuff out on multiple mobiles to get a good feel for it, while using the phone of their choice (even if it's a Nokia 3310).
That sounds exactly like a system I set up with Jenkins a while back. It would deploy to a test server and run the tests from any branch. If you pushed to the deploy branch, it would deploy to the real server assuming all the tests passed.

The actual deploying and testing was all done with Fabric, but the idea was the same.

I think that's a pretty good case for using a CI system like Jenkins, especially because it's really easy to set up. It didn't support Git by default, but there was a plugin that was both easy to install and fairly comprehensive.
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Remember "BEGIN ECHELON BLOCK"?

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There is the GRITS framework that Google showcased at the IO (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prkyd5n0P7k), in this the central server resolves the issue and does game prediction for resolving latency between players.

There is also the P2P data channel being proposed in the WebRTC working group, which will allow sending data packets (there is another API for sending multimedia) between browsers.
[1]http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/webrtc.html#peer-to-pee...
[2]http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jesup-rtcweb-data-protocol
Is that the sort of thing you can ask for with a FOIA request?

If you have some spare time it might be worth trying--it certainly couldn't hurt. I'm not familiar enough with the actual procedure to say if it would be particularly difficult or not.
Ditto - I'm incredibly happy with it, but pretty much any day I'm out of the office there's a good chance that by the time I'm heading home I'll have to call a taxi ahead of time because I know by the time I want it my phone will be asleep.

It's my biggest issue with BBs now, especially when you think about how great they used to be with battery life.
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No, it's not equivalent to plain text. If they had access to certificate authority keys (or the ability to compel CAs to issue certificates on demand), they would still need to pull off an active man-in-the-middle attack to be able to decrypt communications. Practically speaking, it seems like this would be harder to accomplish on an Internet scale than simply intercepting communications. So using HTTPS as much as possible probably helps, though you're correct that if you want to be completely certain your communications are secure you should not trust the certificate authorities.
It's interesting that this sort of thing is seen as a guy slagging records rather than a man just giving his (educated and experienced) opinion, like many others who are dedicated to their craft tend to do.

We can't be that bogged down with fake sincerity/showmanship that this is seen as novel or particularly harsh, can we? I don't know. There's nothing pompous about this. He sounds like me when I listen to a thing or read a thing or watch a thing, though I'll feel a little guilt about thinking those things at times since I haven't exactly reached Miles Davis status.
Didn't know Hinton is doing a NN course. Hope he gets into the deep net stuff. For those interested too, link is:
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This tutorial is missing a lot of steps. It therefore expects the user to know how to use Git in order to consistently commit and push their changes under such a scheme. If the reader is a self-sufficient Git user (i.e. doesn't need a full step-by-step walkthrough), they wouldn't need this tutorial.

Anyhow, this scheme sort of old hat for Git users. Most of us require a build to deploy code, which generally results in SCM-polling continuous integration solutions like Jenkins to fully automate the preparations required to run new code.

This blog post sort of suggests a WordPress crowd's version of continuous integration. Go ahead and use it for a blog theme, or a set of assets. If you're doing this for a web application, you're probably doing something wrong.
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Slightly off-topic: I had ramen a few times in Japan, and while truly delicious, it's massively expensive and rather exotic. Why is ramen a synonym for "cheap" in the US (apparently)? Or does it mean just "instant noodles" over there?
World of Warcraft is more like streaming than you describe it. I recently tried it, as it is free2play now. Having a slow internet connection lets me observe the effect. For example, I walked around for a minute until the NPCs and other players were displayed, so I could talk to someone.
What the title does not make clear is the judge did this to himself.

You have to be careful when you are a judge, you're human so you probably have a bias, but you need to keep it a secret.
Or like searching for a web page on the internet!

Not to mention all the fun machine learning and analysis that could be done.
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They don't even need to ask for the keys.

Pretty much every OS/browser comes with root CAs belonging to the U.S. government (on OS X I see "DoD Root CA 2" and "DoD CLASS 3 Root CA", see also http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4415). As I understand it, if they wanted to, they could MITM any HTTPS connection by forging a certificate using their root CAs.

This is why people were upset when a root CA for some Chinese government agency was added to certain browsers. We don't trust the Chinese government, but we do trust the US government, I guess.

Of course, if they regularly forged certificates someone would notice. Right?

Which begs the question, how would we notice? If you diligently check certificates for sites you visit you might happen to notice facebook.com's CA suddenly changes from Verisign to the U.S. DoD.

Is there a better way? How can we automatically check that the certificates we get are legitimate?

At a minimum it would be nice if there was a warning when a cert doesn't match a previously seen one (similar to SSH)

I feel like a "web of trust" needs to be layered on top of the certificate authorities to really solve this problem. If 10 of my friends have seen the same certificate for a given website I'm inclined to believe it's legitimate. I'm also likely to trust certain organizations (EFF, etc)

Of course it's also a user interface issue. The average user wouldn't understand a single sentence I wrote above.
It appears that moxie has already been heavily harassed by the US gov for unknown reasons, prior to this software release. So, I'm not really sure he will be that concerned with your warning.

While Tor and RedPhone might be considered to be in the same class of consumer security software, I don't think it's fair to draw comparisons to Appelbaum.
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What if we go to http://yoursite/.git or http://yoursite/.svn ?

Often we get free passwords and other information.
I think it's only a handful of certificats that are pinned (they call it "HSTS preloading" here: http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/05/04/pinning.html). While this does include gmail and some other Google properties, it doesn't seem to include any other major webmail services.

Check out http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/net/base/tra... for the list of what's in there (linked to indirectly from http://dev.chromium.org/sts).
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IIRC, research on suicide has found a surprising amount of randomness in it. A fair number of people who kill themselves do so on impulse, and a fair number of people who almost kill themselves are dissuaded by some seemingly minor impediment. So impulse works in both directions.

Also IIRC, it's common for people who make serious suicide attempts (but accidentally survive) to report immediately realizing that they had made a terrible mistake and they wanted to live. The article describes one such case. I recall reading the same thing in the literature on near-death experiences. Assuming it's true, I wonder whether disseminating knowledge of this fact -- "the odds are high that you will regret it" -- might help dissuade some people.
12.3 million in Russian is either less correct "12 и 3 миллиона" (12 and 3 million) or more correct "12 целых 3 десятых миллиона" (12 whole 3 tenth million, same as rational fraction).
On the contrary, anything unscientific is great. I am a musician myself and I find proof based scientific discussions very claustrophobic at times.

All I am trying to say is, in this case, the article is a bunch of opinion from a Jazz musician about fellow Jazz musicians and bands. How does this fit in with other HN threads?

I would say that something like Frank Zappa on censorship [1] [2] is much more suited to HN discussion than this link.

[1] http://www.joesapt.net/superlink/shrg99-529/p51.html#fztesti...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc
Do not look up patents as a strategy. Its a whole different lawsuit if you infringed intentionally (and you don't want to get there). If it ever gets to that, they can force you to disclose in discovery.

Just ignore patents. Patents are only good as their enforcer and if you did not know, it's much easier to work things out (give or take :)..

Once you grow, register your own stuff (you will have, trust me), every idea can have a lot variations of claims that were not claimed before. Get a good patent attorney and you'll be fine.
I guess, the title was moderated again.
To bring it closer to a HN topic: if you look at any successful software product in depth, there are flaws and things you'd do more elegantly. We love to hate things like php and C++ even if they are objectively successful.
How does this fit in with other HN threads?

But not everything ought to fit in! The mandate is simply to be interesting and not lame.

I'm over my meta quota now.

p.s. I like your use of the word 'claustrophobic' there. Very nice.
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Just remove DoD certs from your trust list if you don't want to accept them.

This might not be a laymen solution, but it's a very simple procedure in most browsers.
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Out of curiosity, how many other people had the gut reaction of, "Awesome! I have a dossier!"
Hey - no worries, we appreciate your honest feedback! We just might try a "top 10" list of some kind ;)

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Which must be extraordinarily frustrating when you are knowledgeable and interested in a subject.