skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By Chinese standards, any city less than 10million is not big. By Swiss standards, any city larger than 100k is huge.
The first rule of Silk Road is you don't talk about the packaging...or post pictures of it...
You could use gpg and a non-browser email client to encrypt your email. But then you can do that with gmail too.
As tga says the vendor is unlikely to hear that since they're concerned about actual sales. It's more likely that they'd be aware if you at least phoned them and told someone during the ordering process, but I doubt it would make its way through. Overall, if you want to send the signal that Linux compatibility is important you have to buy a machine with Linux on it.
Can we stop calling the process 3D printing?

print·ing
/ˈprintiNG/
Noun

1. The production of books, newspapers, or other printed material.

2. A single impression of a book.

Synonyms
print - press - impression - typography
I can believe it, I just don't know why it's not been customised to react to links to docs.google.com if it's such a high volume issue.

It's not a trivial problem by any means, but from the network security team's blog it doesn't seem like they've taken many of the steps that I'd expect prior to cutting off a very high traffic website.
Oh I see, because he's using git itself to find the files that need work on them? I had honestly missed that part of the logic.

That'll teach me to 'scan read' and then comment!
I don't think there are any professors for Cloud Computing dept in Oxford.

Why not filter the emails/Ips who send out spam rather than blocking the URL? What if Google blocks Oxford?
Next time you can enter your summary in tldr.io so that anyone (not only people on HN) can benefit from it. For instance: http://tldr.io/tldrs/51238c89b3a7a6ca1000002b/google-blocks
That study didnt cover all the hidden transactions, also DPR sells on his own site too when it started his g/f was the first vendor selling shrooms. So theres one person in this world who knows who DPR is, which is exactly enough for her to rat him out should anything go south in their relationship. Im sure she's told all her friends too like Max Visions' gf did.

Another problem is all the writing hes done on the site about agorism. Surprised feds havnt broken out the writing analyst software and then trolled agorist forums and the bitcoin forum to match it up, unless hes been extremely careful with his Opsec
If you place rate limiting on email accounts by default and then for the lower percent of users that need a higher rate do it on a case-by-case basis. In my experience most users that fall victim to these types of phishing attacks do not need to send high volumes of emails.
they run the mail on Microsoft Exchange I think and I don't think there is an easy way to use 2-factor authentication with Exchange (as opposed to Gmail).
Time.

There's the nice clever intelligent solution which could be developed over a few weeks, or there's the fact that the phishers have decided -- for whatever reason -- to go apeshit today.
I don't get the ConvertKit pricing: Preordering 3 months for $93 a month for $281. 3 times 93 is 279. The other prices are also off by one or two. Maybe I have OCD, but somehow that really confused me.
It'll be even more fun when argiculture and currency become distributed. I know that we already have bitcoin but imagine if it entered the mainstream. The powers that be would be reeling since they would effectively no longer be relevant and would have very little influence left.

Personally, I think that this is all going to cause today's authorities to become increasingly violent until they collapse as a result of the new ways making them obsolete. Then we just might see another golden age for humanity. My forecast is thunderstorms followed by bright sunshine.
Canola oil sounds frightening!
Enough to sway you towards the Volvo at a cost of (guessing) $500? Would you not be better served to deliberately drive more slowly and carefully at points in journeys that are the riskiest and/or to go on an advanced driving awareness course?
"a blissful state that can be reached during meditation, which is said to feel like a 30 minute orgasm. Thus it is not the same as flow."

Nor is that the same as Zen
I'm not familiar with that use of the verb "candle"? Is that a regional thing?
I know! Totally agree -- that's why I hate Microsoft's anti-Gmail campaigns.
And I'm saying a fool and his money are soon parted.
This assumes that everything is just fine and dandy in the brick and mortar college world. It isn't.
You can still sign up for Google Apps' free tier, Google is just hiding it deeper and deeper in the interface. Last time I did it was two weeks or so ago, and I had to sign up via the Google App Engine control panel, as detailed here: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/google-app-mail-for-free/

Definitely good enough for one time @projectname.com mailboxes.
If you define Pearl Harbour as a military attack, then yes. But if you look at the cultural and political impact of 9/11 and Pearl Harbour, then they are quite similar. Both did change US policy and politics, have both generated treatment in movies and books and perhaps most strikingly are used in a phrase like "The next ..."
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The automatic braking system is likely turned off below a certain speed. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to reverse out of a parking space that faces a wall.
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"Chef's Data Bags are incredibly useful." Very true. Not having to deal with a DSL (which is a personal opinion) is the reason I chose chef over puppet. Plus the IRC channel seems to be more active.

Is the AWS opswork link broken for anyone else? I tried to view their pricing/sign up, but received 404's.
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Samsung embarking on an aggressive expansion in Silicon Valley
A few I read:

Design is Job - Mike Monteiro by A Book Apart (Really basic stuff for people starting with agency/freelance work, but really good).

Learn Ruby The Hard Way for people starting.

Applied Cryptography, Second Edition: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C

Baked In from Alex Bogusky and John Winsor (About C+P agency)

I'll try to think of a couple more.
Shiny movie and very easy to understand but forgive me if I'm skeptic about something without any supporting numbers or scientific background
This article feels intellectually lazy. This passage particularly bothered me:

"A five-year study, issued in 2011, tracked 51,000 students enrolled in Washington State community and technical colleges. It found that those who took higher proportions of online courses were less likely to earn degrees or transfer to four-year colleges. The reasons for such failures are well known. Many students, for example, show up at college (or junior college) unprepared to learn, unable to manage time and having failed to master basics like math and English. " (emphasis added)

How is that conclusion supported by the facts in the article? Its also possible that those taking online courses are also the ones with the least time for school in general. But who knows!

Similarly, if I found that students attending class at night performed worse than those attending during the day, I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that learning is harder at night.

correlation != causation and all that.
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And once again we prove that Microsoft, just like parents, can be blamed for everything ;)
Can someone who has used both chime in? I've used ansible a bit and like it, but I've never heard of Salt before.
Oops. I rounded off the change... 25% off of $125 is $93.75 (I wrote $93). $93.75 * 3 months = $281.25. But you're right, that is confusing.
From a US perspective, foreign hackers are a threat--but I think mostly to companies and to individual cases of identity theft.

I'd argue that a government spying on its own citizens is a much greater threat. If a Chinese hacker steals your identity, maybe you're out some (possibly significant) amount of money, and a lot of hassle. Your physical well-being is typically not threatened.

If, however, the government reads through your email, listens in to your Skype calls, and then decides that you've committed some crime (and by virtue of living day-to-day in our hyper-criminalized society, almost all of us are guilty of some crime these days), you can be harrassed physically, legally, and financially for what might be the rest of your life by our crushing-revenge-driven legal system--you might even be imprisoned.

Chinese hackers can't imprison you, or sue you until you choose to exit early. So from a regular person's perspective, we should be way more worried about what's going on at home.
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I attended online college to get my degree in Computer science, for at least half of my undergrad, and I can say that it is just as challenging as attending the reals classes at a brick and mortar university. The challenges were different, such as not having the professor breathing down your neck to get assignments in, and having to self motivate to get things done. However, that doesn't make the knowledge I acquired any less real or any less valuable, I simply had to read the book do the assignments myself, with a professor helping me from across the country. My exams were proctored (impossible to cheat on(well not impossible but difficult), and I learned a ton. I think there will come a time where people will realize that doing a mixture is a great thing. Part of college is the social aspect, meeting peers getting to know other people in the field, which can't replaced online (although this is a great business opportunity if you can) and the other part is learning. This part is easily and affordably done online, and possibly more effective for some people.
Next up, people wearing helmets when they go for a walk.
Let's say I'm a rich Dad who has two children, ages 15 and 16 who will begin driving soon. I want them to be less neurotic when they're driving and minimize the chance that they'll have to experience the traumatic event of seriously injuring or killing a pedestrian. Then this car/option might be very appealing to me.

But on top of that, the reason this is on the frontpage of HN isn't because the system is installed in a Volvo V40. It's that this system is now a reality and might soon become part of standard safety systems. I personally had never heard of this system and think it's a fantastic idea. And news coverage and consumer interest/awareness could result in this system being installed in more and more cars.
This is just a free article on how I (with help) wrote and rewrote a landing page. I'm not selling a course on copywriting. Just sharing my experience.
Hi,

Dell will be enabling online purchases for European countries in the next couple of weeks. There's a blog post from them here:
http://bartongeorge.net/2013/02/18/spuntik-2-is-here-xps-13-...

Short version is that the following countries will be added:

France, Germany, UK, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

You'll be able to buy through a sales person for these countries:

Israel, Luxembourg, Morocco, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, UAE
No, not at all. The majority of drivers think that they are better than average and very few ever expect to be in a crash. Of course it is entirely likely that you wish that you would have fitted this system after the fact, but how many people are, given the option, willing to pay up front to fit it?
Haha, Mark Zuckerberg (and Randi too) have a couple on there as well.
The article fails to deal with selection bias. It never establishes that the populations that enroll in online courses are sufficiently similar to the populations that enroll in traditional courses that such things as attrition rates, etc., can be directly compared.
Oxford already has rate limiting. 1000 messages per hour through their servers, it seems [0].

The next step would be to filter outbound traffic to block SMTP from compromised PCs. It seems they have an outbound firewall, but it's not obvious which ports are closed because the list of blocked ports is ... blocked[1].

[0] http://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/adamweblearn/2011/12/weblearn-una...

[1] http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/network/firewall/blocks/
I don't think it's either or. I think most people try to drive carefully but we make mistakes, and so do pedestrians. For those situations it would be nice with a reduced risk.

Now, there are other reasons I wouldn't want to buy a Volvo but if this system works it might be installed in other cars as well :-)
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have any experience of running very large and incredibly diverse networks like Oxford University's

The fact that they do something doesn't mean that they do it well. As others have mentioned, email filtering in Exchange (bizarre email platform for a university, but ignoring that) seems like a rudimentary starting point here.
Drunks often don't obey anti-drunk driving laws.

But we still have those laws for darn good reasons.

There is nothing wrong with having gun control laws.
So the crux of this argument is that students who are struggling in traditional brick and mortar colleges struggle even more when taking online courses, and this is supposed to be damnation of online courses? Yes, of course there are students who need the extra hand-holding and support that personal, face-to-face attention and tutoring provides. If they have the money to pay for that very expensive service, then I say go for it. If, however, a student is a self-starter and doesn't require one-on-one attention to effectively learn, they should be able to get accredited for far cheaper than they can today.
This still has a long way to go before it is a threat to Scalr / Right Scale, but as it matures, that is definitely going to happen. Where companies like Scalr and Right Scale add value is the ability to deploy your cloud across multiple providers.
With a dedicated email-server, maintenance is as easy as configuring auto-updates and doing 2 commands once every 2-3 years.

SSL/TLS require two additional step. You go to CAcert and add a very simple setting in postfix. If you uses webmail, you can just plug this in and use it there and forget about ssl/tls in postfix.

DKIM is neither required or useful in most use cases. If your a bank with online accounts, then you should use it, but then you really MUST not outsource your email. They should have a sysadmin that can maintain a secure email infrastructure, in the same way that they got a professional installing a lock and alarm on the door. Get a consultant, ie a professional doing the installation if you don't have a sysadmin.

As for journaling (default from the file system) and bouncing emails (defaulting to the user who sent the email), both are given free without any configuration.

Litigation holds, ie concerns about how to comply with being legally forced to retain and hand over emails to the government. That is a bit out of scope for most companies and users, but if you are concerned about this see above statement about DKIM.

So ye, for users and 99% of companies in the world it is indeed as simple as doing an apt-get install postfix and follow some simple tutorial in configuring grey listing, black listing subscription and adding a dns entry.
-> That's not wifi, that's NFC. You could use a NFC connection to boot a wifi connection on smartphones, but this is way too time consuming.

-> Second, NFC card readers are not simple, that's not just RFID.

-> Contact-less payments without PIN input is authorized for a few merchants and require additional security measures (like sending a SMS for each purchase, etc)

Most larger stores have fixed pin pads pointing to the customer. It is not possible for the cashier to insert it for you, in fact, this is the PCI standard for pin-pads.
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Notably ...

"Businesses and consumers both have pain in financial transactions today. International payments are difficult, and costly, and take several days. Bitcoin can solve the same problem in seconds, for little or no cost. Once liquid markets for bitcoin are established around the world, much like the ISP model of the mid-90s got people connected to the network, then the global adoption of bitcoin will accelerate."
Looking into WebRTC
So, what is a Capability Case anyway?
> Let's say I'm a rich Dad...

And if we don't want to limit this option to a tiny segment of the population, how do we encourage its uptake for the millions of vehicles that are marketed on the basis of economy and not on protecting the psyches of teenage drivers who are being given, and not choosing, their own cars?
True, but in this case it seems like it's not a particularly new problem, just something that they've finally reacted to?

They actually mention sinkholing spreadsheets.google.com in this post from August 2011 [1], they actually say "There are also some forms which are more difficult to block ( I don’t think we’d be too popular if we sink-holed spreadsheets.google.com for example)".

So they've had the issue for years.

1 - https://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/oxcert/2011/08/12/the-price-of-p...
All permissions are inherited by all user's processes, with no better granularity possible. That is a recipe for disaster and the core issue with most of our security problems. Android is a bit better, since it has specific permissions on a per-process level (or so it looks like), but you can't really manage them.
I disagree.

At best the users who don't care will continue not to care. At worst it will train users to think "oh, it's another drill, ho hum".

Somewhere in the middle is some deeply embarrassed Deputy Vice Chancellor who decides to make those horrid computer people his personal enemies.
Doesn't seem to work for me. Just shows one marker on each of the maps (none of which are in the same continent as my location).

Won't chrismacnaughton.com fall foul of GMaps usage limits?

Like the idea though...
Well, I agree that it is a nice system and that safety systems that protect pedestrians are worthwhile. But millions of vehicles are marketed based on how economical they are. How do you spread the usage of such a system into those vehicles and convince an economy-minded purchaser to shell out the extra money to equip it?
Previous discussion (same video, on hackaday):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4958875

Another:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3723943

And another:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3710054

All 3 are linked to different articles.
For the record 4th tier town (县). That's how I roll. ;)
Without wishing to debate the pros and cons of using Exchange, I can assure you that it was not the decision of the security team.
No worries. I wasn't being clear. I wonder why bourbon as a market is so unfriendly to small companies.
People think bagels are healthy? They're just a big, dense (delicious) ring of simple carbs.
So if given the choice between the two, you are picking a slightly happier life in a country where you will not live to age 30? Interesting.
Why not simply block emails that contain a link to a publicly-shared Google Doc?
I worked in the same company (Hey Andrew!). It would definitely depend on the specific instructions/optimisations involved but I believe they were generally pretty robust to changes. Some would require the user to supply pragmas (i.e. to specify data alignment, etc) but obviously the compiler intrinsics would always generate the expected instructions.
Well I found this framework quite interesting, I don't want Bootstrap's visuals and baggage so I found this very appealing, the grid system is robust and appears to solve my problem which Bootstrap doesn't easily. As for the visuals, well I'm of the opinion that they don't need to look good to be good. Visuals designers usually aren't good at making generic frameworks, it is more of a programmer's undertaking to distill HTML & CSS into it's reusable parts, so for a framework to look good out of the box it needs both skill sets from it's developers.
How much RAM do you have on your machine? Are you running out because of Firefox? Actually the memory management has been really tightened up over the last year or so. Type "about:memory" into your address bar and you can see exactly what's going on in there.
what's wrong with that? An egg weighs around 50-60 grams... Unless you count XL/L eggs
Your article was a very good read and I liked the design-steps with the reasons why you did what/when. Thank you!
Oooooooooooooooo rant coming on.............

Im sorry, but that is the typical tech reply that blows normal people's minds. Blame the user. Well, the user says, sod that,
lets just block the problem and get on with what we wanted to do in the first place.

People, normal non tech people, want to use computers as a tool, not become experts in thwarting criminals, etc. If a user cant just go to a computer and simply use it, like say a library or book, then the computer and its champions are failing. Its not the users job to provide security. And no, its not like locking a door. The sheer amount of rubbish poor users have to go through to be safe on a computer is frankly a joke, and the reason so many non geeks love Apple. Yes geeks know Apple are as insecure and any one else, but users believe they are simple and safe.

(At this point, by all means picture a toddler going mental in a shop)

I've been in this business for 30 years, and "train the users" is for me a 30 year mantra that no one out side of geekdom wants to hear. It was my job to enable them to do their job more efficiently, not expect them to become some sort of security expert.

This Uni is doing the simple easy thing to let its users function safely. If the IT world doens't like it, then 1: tough, 2: damn well fix it, and 3: stop blaming users.

Then, you tell them to limit emails. "Oh right" says the user, "I thought one point of email was easy mass mailing, and now you want to bloke it?"

Really think about the user. Its they who make computers and the internet worth bothering with.

I feel better now. Thank you.
If you believe Apple, people copy them all the time.
three medium (50g) eggs @ 65 kcal apiece?
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Maybe you should do some more reading. There are certainly supported configurations for two factor authentication.
Const doesn't actually help compilers (at least in C/C++ based languages). Since it can be const_cast away and still work in a standards compliant way, any optimisation assuming const values never change is a bug. Instead the compiler will use other techniques, e.g. finding variables that are only written to on initialisation, and those don't even need to be marked const.
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A good thing would be for them to adopt the policy that "even though I don't use a particular program / website, it doesn't mean it is not used, or not important". I've seen some ridiculous examples of hubris of university sysadmins causing pain for everyone else.
Yes, ZeroMQ doesn't have TLS support... you should use stunnel with it if you need an encrypted tunnel.
Catering for such a large and varied set of users requires difficult evaluation of risks and benefits to the majority.

The underlying problem in this situation was that Google were so slow to respond to reports of malicious content.

The brief block on Google Docs has served as an excellent way to get attention and highlight a number of things that need consideration.
You mean like charging $20 / year to access a service and not be displayed ads? That's the alternative revenue model and you want to circumvent that as well.