skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most https clients support server name indication (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication), which effectively allows the "Host" header content to be presented before a server-side certificate is chosen (and therefore before the session is encrypted), to supported name-based virtual hosting.
On the non-science fiction side, The Wasp Factory is also great, as is Crow Road and Complicity (if you want something closer to a crime thriller).
Great, congratulations then. Vagrant is a fantastic tool.
Most people I know become better as they age, even if the change is slight (i.e. wholly bad people rarely turn to good people just because they get older).

Certainly, I'm a much better person than I was ten years ago. That might just be reversion to the mean, because I was somewhat of an asshole.
I'm wondering though. He discovered that he had cancer in January, or February, and it was quite well developer.

Why didn't he notice it sooner? Why didn't he go for occasional checkups?
The graphic clearly refers to Americans killed in Iraq.

Source:

http://hbo.vice.com/episode-nine/ep-9-seg-1/infographic
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There is no such thing as a gerrymandered Senator.
In case you didn't notice, those were Bradley Manning's words, not mine.
Right. There's no need to write a whole new tool just to simplify invocation for common cases. For a guy who uses the command line "a LOT" he's not making good use of his shell.
Not the only one, another is to give economic incentives for having children. Sweden has a general payout to families per child, it was created for the same reasons.
You could measure by calories, since there will not be a huge difference in the number of calories consumed by people with different diets.

Giving an incredibly quick example, wheat and ground beef have roughly the same caloric density

Wheat: http://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/usda/whole-grain...

Beef: http://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/usda/ground-beef...

But since it requires numerous pounds of wheat to create one pound of beef, you are losing overall caloric density.
The switch to using language that is normally applied to the third world, applied to the events that are going on in the US, is jarring. I don't know if anything will come of it but it's fascinating and I can't wait to read the rest of the series.
So you're with the pedophiles then!

An explanation for non-Canadians: In response to criticism to the Conservatives' "lawful access" legislation, which would require Canadian ISPs to install monitoring equipment on their networks and allow government warrant-less access to user data, our Public Safety Minister, Vic Toews, famously said: "You're either with the government, or with the child molesters"
This doesn't make sense. Not enough workers but demand for their work output goes down? They can't both be problems.
Be more generous to people with kids, thus making people get more kids.

More days off, more money, more kindergartens etc.
This is no longer true.

Seeing as HTTPS sites could not previously share an IP address, making it obvious which site communications with any given IP address was directed towards, an extension was developed that now sends the desired host unencrypted before the encrypted package.

This doesn't yield any more information that could previously be derived, but does allow you to serve as many HTTPS sites from a single host as you wish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication
Try https://news.layervault.com/
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Germany is fairly open to immigrants—depending on your nationality and education it can be quite easy compared to the US. And Germany's capital Berlin is Europe's tech hub with most career opportunities.

More infos about Berlin taken from another thread:

Top 5 reasons why you should move to Berlin:

1. Lowest livings costs with highest quality of living. Stay in gorgeous, perfectly renovated apartments in pre-WWII residential buildings with high ceilings, right in the middle of the center and pay a fraction of costs of any other capital (even cheaper than any Eastern European capital). No need for a car—Berlin has one of the densest subway nets and wide streets make biking fun. In addition, Germany has an amazing social health care system including health, unemployment and pension (when working as an employee).

2. A vibrant and fast growing ecosystem of smart people. A vast number of new software talents, founders, software companies and VCs are moving to Berlin, every day (Twitter, Google, Soundcloud, Early Bird and many more).

3. People here are open-minded, outgoing, mix well and international—no need to learn German, everyone speaks English! Making new friends is a matter of days. Visit tons of networking and startup events, every week.

4. Easy work permissions—Europeans do not need any and can work from day one and the rest applies for the hassle-free Blue Card.

5. Berlin's night life is unmatched, huge and changing every day (plus ridiculously cheap). Berlin has got some of the most dazzling, naughty, and original clubs on the face of the Earth.

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For anyone unfamiliar, that's Adele Hartley, not Adele the singer.
> Life-wise, graduate school is a pretty negative experience.

I don't think grad school is like that for everyone. My undergrad had such a huge workload that I rarely had time for any kind of fun. Grad school so far is like the college that I didn't have, except I also get to work on research that's really exciting to me. I'm also kind of young for a grad student so I can hang out with undergrads just fine. It's a win-win.
For those who are saying America is worse than China or Russia, mind that the data of China and Russia's historical imprisonment data is not well-documented and they were more prone to using executions.

Estimates vary wildly on how many people were executed, starved to death, murdered, or imprisoned during all of the Chinese Revolutions under Mao.

I'm certainly not defending the America prison system.
a man of taste. damn good writer too.
because spies would probably not be spraying graffiti, sitting around singing hymns and waiting to be arrested?

If your escape strategy is to hang around being as obvious as possible, and then hoping for only a short prison sentence, you've probably made some poor career choices.
What is rollingdebian? There's nothing that I could find on the site that says what the site is about.

Is rollingdebian a distro? Is rollingdebian.com just a blog focusing on the rolling characteristics of debian? Is there a product or services that the site fronts?
Yes, but that only works in the VERY long term. Suppose you doubled the birth rate now - the effect on the working force would only be felt after at least 20 years.
It’s getting easier to build Big Data applications
It'd be great for a download button for offline reading.
The author has a pretty big conflict of interest that he doesn't disclose. He invented one of the major vaccines, regularly consults for pharmaceutical companies, etc. If an alternative to vaccines was found to be effective in preventing or treating diseases, he would have much to lose.
Those "protocol peculiarities" are massive performance hogs.
Amazon's Dynamo Paper annotated with information about Riak
Yes but one third is doable for a perfect attacker with 'unlimited resources'.

It would be really interesting to determine how much this would cost
While I don't necessarily condone this, it is an interesting thought. Social motivation (i.e. what people think about us) is one of the most powerful motivations in the world. How would the world change if everyone knew everything? Would we be motivated to be better people?

What if everyone's credit score was public or everyone knew how much time people spent on Facebook, watching TV, or similar activities? Would we become better?

Imagine if political and business leaders were elected on such characteristics, the truth. What if everyone was known for who they really were? Would crime and corruption go down? Would there ever be another war if people understood each other better?

It'd sure make dating easier...do you really want to start a life with this person now that you know what they are? Do you want this person to be the mother/father of your children? The bar would certainly be lower, because nobody is perfect and everyone has secrets.

Would the truth be beautiful once it’s universal? People who lived lives of quiet desperation (more than we think) would find out how many other people are just like them. Would people stop being ashamed of who they are? Would rates of mental illness, suicide, and depression plummet?

Would the world be better? I assure you it'd be more compassionate. People would be less likely to judge people based on unrealistic standards while quietly ignoring their own shortcomings.

I wouldn't be surprised if in the next 20 years we saw an 'Open' organization where people opt-in to share everything about themselves and make everything public. Maybe it'd be cathartic, maybe it wouldn't catch on, but with enough critical mass the social pressure would be interesting to see (i.e. how those running for political office are pressured to release past tax filings).

An interesting thought.
Palantir makes multiple products.

What their rep said is they sell a product that happens to be called Prism, and that product is used for banking.

Do a bit of reading and you'd also discover some high-ups in Palantir got there after attempting to develop a similar system in-house with US government intelligence agencies. IIRC, it's not known whether those programs were successful.

Did you actually just try to prove that Palantir has military/intelligence contracts to prove their involvement with NSA's PRISM?
Salim, let me guess. You don't have a problem with all Israelis, only with the Israeli jews.
Interesting development (if it's true - as we all learn, deals have a way if changing a LOT at the last minute).

I'd thought a FB acquisition would have been very important for FB -- it would have given them user-provided location info down to the foot for 50M people, which seems to me right up FB's alley (Where are you? Where are your friends? Where are you going? Where are they going?).

For Google, this will obviously cement their domination in the mapping space. As it is, they're so vastly far ahead than others (I think I heard from a friend who works there that they have 10,000+ people on the Maps team worldwide?)

Either way, Waze is awesome and despite the cynicism around what the big guys sometimes do, I can only imagine this making the app better and better.
As a Japanese, you could certainly get your money out of Japanese banks and into a different currency. If it was me, I would have moved my assets out a long time ago. But I have no idea what Japan as a nation should do.
Yes. Undoubtedly sysadmins are responsible for some, if not most of the most egregious handoffs of data to outsiders (legal or illegal).
Iain Banks last book - released June 20 - reveals brutal impact of cancer
It would be a great story if someone that says they have nothing to hide would allow a private investigator access to their meta data (internet and phone) for 6 months. At the conclusion could be a link diagram of everyone they communicate with, where they travel and what interests they have. Maybe that would change some minds. I would volunteer but I have many things I want to hide.
I wouldn't just say cancer is about "unregulated cell growth". What it's about is a conflict of interest at the cellular level. Some cells become individually fit at the expense of the highly specialized civilization called an organism. It's not just "growth" (mass effect) that makes them so dangerous, because if it were only that, the cancer would just displace stuff (like a benign tumor which, contrary to the name, can kill you-- especially in the brain, where displacement can be fatal because location/connection matters). In addition to reproduction, cancers steal resources from (and starve) or invade healthy cells and cause organs to fail.

The underlying theme isn't just "cell growth". It's about cells that override the body's mechanisms for coupling individual fitness with the body's needs. Much of what makes the disease hard to treat is that cancer cells become increasingly fit (individually speaking) over time, and while systemically damaging the environment (e.g. chemotherapy, radiation) works great if it kills all of them, if it doesn't, it leaves an even more fit subset alive.
> BTW, what I like most about John Ioannidis's work is that he not only proved theoretically that most medical research is false

"Proved" is being thrown about a bit liberally in connection with Ioannidis' work. It's certainly in dispute [1]

Either way, it seems your central point has a number of flaws. What you are attributing to superstition (e.g. consuming more leafy greens) is in fact more often than not rational decision making based on admittedly limited information.

Will the consumption of vegetables ultimately improve ones health? I don't know, let's take a more specific example. For instance, take someone interested in positively affecting their likelihood of developing diabetes. A quick google search turns up a study that notes a correlation between increased vegetable intake and a reduced risk of diabetes[2].

Of course, increasing intake of green vegetables may mean a decrease in some other substance. Another quick search turns up a research study documenting a link between increased fructose consumption and insulin resistance [3]. Thus, if I were hypothetically interested in positively affecting my insulin response, it would be quite logical to increase my consumption of green vegetables while decreasing my intake of sugar.

Is this course of action wrong? Possibly. However, it's certainly rational and not exactly "superstitious". You've defined the term so loosely as to encapsulate even such things as making rational decisions based on limited information. That is certainly not what superstitious really means. Certainly, someone who refuses to change their dietary habits despite ample refuting evidence could be classified as superstitious, but that's not a distinction you have made.

[1] http://www.technologyreview.com/view/510126/the-statistical-...

[2] http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-08/bmj-glv081810...

[3] http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/2/1/5
Which countries was the US occupying on 9/11?
DDoS hardly cause damage, just loss of revenue, yet they carry very stiff penalties.
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And there are no senators in the House intelligence committee.
The author would have us believe that Japan needs to be more like Mexico, so they don't have so many elderly to care for?
"this program operated without the judicial oversight mandated by Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorist_surveillance_program
Japan is overcrowded and has famously long and lengthening lifespans. The result is that families have little space to raise children and retirees accumulate so the retiree to worker ratio grows to great heights.

It's pretty straightforward to deal with the trend, though.

You could mitigate the cost of a high ratio by investing in automation so that a smaller workforce can provide more goods and services to the population, and Japan is, in fact, the world leader in robotics and automation.

You could make child bearing and rearing cheaper so that the necessary generational decline in population is smoother. Japan is failing badly at promoting births, though. The economy is dominated by cartels that have been liberalizing their employment practices by reserving the high paying lifetime employment jobs to older incumbent employees and taking on younger workers as low-paid temps without benefits. Real estate taxes calcify the market and banking policy makes it even harder for young people to own homes. Social and government policy makes life very hard on working mothers. The result is young Japanese people that want babies find them difficult to afford. Japan has among the lowest birth rates in the world.

It's easy enough to stop providing government support to the industrial and banking cartels and liberalize real estate and school policies but the voters so far prefer national decline and bankruptcy to liberalization.

You could raise retirement ages or cut benefits so more people continue working longer. That's not popular either, for good reason.

You could promote immigration of younger workers, but then you stop being a Japanese nation and inflict an underclass on all your posterity. A wise nation would not do that.
And yet North Korea is green (least surveillance) on this map.
Damn. I literally just finished reading Use of Weapons two days ago. I had no idea he was ill :-(
TL;DR: shorting the Japanese government is the trade of the decade. (According to the author). "Will I succeed? Time will tell, but I am joined by Japanese public pension funds that have announced they will reduce their holdings of local bonds while increasing their share of both domestic and, in particular, foreign equities. No time frame was provided in the data I saw, although indications are that they have already started."

Of course- als always- timing is everything.
I had the same thought but would like to see this done as an experiment done with volunteers and a legitimate news source, instead of 4chan thuggery.
Frankly, I think you have to assume that the NSA is already doing this. I also think you have to assume they have the private keys for every major CA in the world.
Yeah thats ok but holy cow, thanks for letting me find out about ack! ack is awesome!
I haven't listened to this yet, but for those who found this talk interesting Bruce also appears on the upcoming episode of Econtalk (www.econtalk.org). Those with a hacker mindset should be able to figure out that the episode is already up and accessible, just pay careful attention to how Econtalk names its episodes.
Yeah, and even if you get a certificate from a CA which isn't, it doesn't matter, since any other CA can still issue a cert for your domain.
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Banksters will not let small investors to make money in this financial fuss. Credit interest rates for ordinary people are going to be much higher than the expected inflation.
Gnotty — ties the knot between the web and IRC.
Google Maps is the best as much for its maps acquisitions as it is the work they put into it.

If they do acquire it, it will because they see a use for Waze talent and tech.
I want to thank you for that answer, it is the first explenation I have been given that doesn't simply point out that doctors and their relatives also die of cancer (but what single doctor can found even a single research cure? FDA approval would take years and not be very certain at all).

But you say that some of the easier cancers have already been cured (near 100% survival rate, which is as good as it gets since it would always be possible to discover too late), or mostly so: do you know why this haven't been more widely published or talked about? I mean we haven't cured all infectiones diseases (or even the common cold), but when the cure was found for polio it was massively published, to the extends that court rooms took a break to hear the announcements.
NOOOOOOOOooooooooo!!!!

This is a competitor to google's maps, the only thing they'd do is shut it down (or at least not make anymore updates, ah-la sparrow) and not integrate the ideas into Gmaps.

From the founders standpoint this makes total sense, though, it's obvious this was the end game because they had no money-making business model.
I miss being able to buy high quality electronics from Japan that would last 20 years, instead of crap from China. I recently got a stereo for my home office in the garage. I went to a local thrift store to get an older receiver made in Japan, instead of China. It (still) works great.

Japan as a country needs to run a consumer oriented advertising campaign: "Buy stuff from us instead of China, it will last 10 times as long!" They also need to find a way to make their stuff available again in US (and other) commercial outlets.
That's pretty sobering for a comic
There are four options - live with a smaller economy, make more babies, bring in immigrants, or increase productivity to the point where a smaller number of workers will be able to do the work that currently requires a larger workforce.

The latter is not an unreasonable option. If worker productivity grew by an unimpressive 1% per year from 2010 to 2030 (the time frame given in this article), the 67.7 million Japanese workers of 2030 will do the work of 82.6 million 2010 workers, which is more than the 81.7 million workers in 2010's workforce.

The sky is not falling, and there is no need to mandate that Japanese women become brood mares, and no need to import huge numbers of immigrants from poor countries.
What's more likely is, convinced they're legally obliged to turn over data to anyone with a plausible government letterhead, private companies start being subjected to an enormous amount of false flag / social engineering attacks.
Why so little Chinese in English today?
What about Weev? Specifically, the crime he was charged with, not whatever other stuff he got up to before. There was zero damage from that, except to AT&T's reputation.
Behance is a portfolio/showcase-site where you can show your work and other people can comment on the things you post

http://www.behance.net/
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But there obviously are on the Senate Select Committee On Intelligence.
Will do, thank you for the tip :)
He managed to create better Kafkian Castle than Kafka himself in his second novel "Walking on Glass". He left a lot of pages to enjoy.
Wouldn't it be better to simply scale people not on the amount of things you do, but on how many upvotes you have received over the last 18 months (discard the last six to prevent a set of newcommers from fundamentally changing the vote distribution), that way you are encouraging good postings (according to the local norms, anyway) over just posting things.

You have to be careful, though. Some people post things that are uniformily well recieved (patio11 comes to mind) whereas I have had posts anywhere from -20 or so to +34.
You do realize that Waze has always been an Israeli company, and you probably also know that nearly every major tech company (Google, Microsoft, Motorola, Intel, Apple, HP, etc) has an office in Israel that makes major contributions to their products.
Hey,

This is Brooke. I understand your points. I thought about whether I should include a picture or not because I'm not that photogenic.

I'll often advertise the same position under multiple job titles. In this case, for example, I did a straight-up ad for position under Administrative Assistants and I got dull candidates.

The best candidates came from this ad placed under Writers and Editors.

Anything I do that is unusual gets its share of skeptics, which is fine. I am more interested in the people who wonder if I am a fraud or not, but are not afraid to find out.

One of my best hires for a position of Compliance Officer Trainee also came from an ad in Writers and Editors. She had an undergrad in Psych and a Masters in Tibetan Buddhism. It had never occurred to her that there would be a Wall Street job that cared about her ethics training. She answered because she didn't think I was legit, but was curious to find out.

I also hate the hugs - it is creepy, and I also don't like the cheek kissing, etc. But that's just me.
US Gov’t: PRISM Isn’t Data Mining System, Doesn’t Pull Data Off Servers