skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do a lot more stuff to improve America's "image" that costs a lot more. At my graduate school there were students from a central Asian country (a moderately wealthy and advanced one, too). They got full tuition to get a post-graduate law degree, free housing, free healthcare, free books, everything.

What's the point of this? Spending $100,000+ per person? For what, so they can go back to their country and hopefully speak well of the US? And then our reputation improves there... so what?

Maybe these programs are just bargaining chips as part of a larger trade negotiation that brings in far more for the US. I'm not sure of that. But I really question the extent of our foreign involvement -- is it really for the best interests of the American people? Or just the best interests of American corporations?
That User-Agent isn't really valid.

It's the "like Gecko". If you only read the BNF, then okay, it's valid. But the various sections are supposed to have semantic meaning — they're supposed to be products with optional versions and comments. Like,

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv 11.0)

Means the product "Mozilla" with version "5.0", followed by a comment of "Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv 11.0". Thus their UA of…

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv 11.0) like Gecko

…includes the products "Mozilla", "like" and "Gecko".

Like the article mentions, "like Gecko" has been done before:

> Safari was the first browser to add “like Gecko” so that anyone sniffing for “Gecko” in the user-agent string would allow the browser through.

And they put it in a comment, not as two separate products:

> AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko)

See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt.
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Relevant to this, where have the cypherpunks gone? The mailing lists fizzled out in the early 2000s, but given recent developments, has anyone begun organizing the movement again? (Or has it kept going via other means?)
Given the distance the drive train was tossed in this wreck, I don't think there was any shortage of kinetic energy being dissipated into the vehicle.
Honest Question: Why not launch your app's infrastructure on both platforms and then round-robin your traffic between the two for a billing cycle and compare the results at the end?

If you are working towards "best practices" on AWS, you should be running multi-region (who wants to be the one left holding the bag when US-EAST goes down again?). If you've done all the heavy lifting to enable yourself to run in "pods" across mutliple regions.

Well, if you can do that, why not treat Linode/DO/Rackspace as a separate region and deploy a "pod" of servers there?

At the end of a month you should have enough statistics that are directly applicable to your own app and your specific customers, as well as some real experience with the operational experience of dealing with the new provider.

For example, maybe one of the other providers has really fast machines and their major upstream provider has a great peering relationship with whatever test node you were using for these microbenchmarks, but perhaps those servers are really flaky and crash all the time, or perhaps the majority of your customers see really bad latency when hitting those servers? Maybe their API isn't just "immature", maybe it crashes a lot and they have bad customer service.

Those are the sorts of things you aren't going to figure out after simply running a few load tests. Anyhow, it just seems like something like this would be a lot more valuable than any amount of synthetic testing.

edit: typos
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This statement is exactly the problem he is describing. :) One metric for a specific use case or scenario is a terrible indicator of overall "quality". It is much more nuanced than that. I think the worst tickets I've gotten in the 10 years sofar sysadmining is when a customer just states their app is "slow".
Does federal law take precedence for state regulation? It just seems like California has a narrower definition of "money transmitter" for the purposes of regulation inside their own borders above and beyond the federal one. Also, if a business is in compliance by state law but out of compliance federally, is California obligated to do anything about that? They allow medical marijuana dispensaries to operate despite being illegal at the federal level. Not insinuating you're wrong, just legitimately curious since IANAL.
for the argument against (lower rewards = less risk taken by ceos/entrepreneur) that says "Bill Gates's decendants have never worked a day in their life and they are rich. (Actually Bill Gates is a good parent & powerful philanthropist, just replace that with some other rich dude)

Anyway for that reason we have a variable estate tax up to %40. Yes, there are probably loopholes to this and they should be closed.
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Relevant: super lightweight co-routines in C, with (limited) support for blocking as well: https://github.com/halayli/lthread
I have that car and I can attest to it not being incredibly fast. Unfortunately horsepower != speed.
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Well, not quite begging the question, in that it's not something you're assuming to be true but rather something you're causing to be trivially true, but it's still an odd and presumably invalid construction to be sure.
It's cool until you see the price tag for Visual Studio Profi/Prem/Ultimate (I assume you can't use Python tools with Express versions).
In that case I will stick to my old copy of Visual J++...
It doesn't matter if public keys are exchanged through an insecure medium as long as there is a way to verify them. Someone else seeing the key is not a problem, so Google being able to find them after the fact would be fine. The problem comes from being able to MITM them and swap it out with a fake key controlled by the attacker. Verifying the key fingerprint (using GPG terminology here, don't know how it applies elsewhere) after via another means (ideally voice or video) would confirm it's a legitimate key.
"I imagine they would have been cloud backed."

Of course they were; that's how the NSA found out.
Java still beats it on Windows.
Well, first of all, those are 5 to 6 people whose lives are immeasurably improved, regardless of what capacity they choose to serve the U.S. in....can we say that the 1 million "Likes" offered any improvement to the account holders?

You could argue the long game, I guess, that the State Department, in those 1 million likes, will inspire at least 100 Facebook users to the delights of the State Department who may not have paid attention through other channels...and that's the argument you can make with any PR campaign. In the defense of Facebook spending, you can at least argue that the eyeballs-reached/engaged is quantifiable, which you can't with most forms of glorified PR campaigns.
I believe that you could post a story about Majestic 12 and have it make the front page right now

Do you really think so?
PYXL Behind the Scenes: From Sketchbook to my first iOS game
Since my first iOS app PYXL has been live for a little under a month now, I thought it would be fun (and possibly interesting to other people) to do a little development retrospective, going through some of my notes, sketches, and early builds to see what ideas from early on made it into the final game.

First a little bit of background – PYXL is my first iOS app that I have released – in fact it is the first project of any kind that I programmed and released from start to finish. While I studied computer science in school several years ago – since my graduation I have been on the business / product side of several technology startups / companies. Last year I started to realize that

Even though I had graduated with a CS degree, after 6 years of no coding I had completely lost the ability to make anything myself and
I was tremendously bored and needed a side project.
So I went off to make my first game. After several game prototypes I had learnt a ton, and most importantly I had learnt not to try to take on a project that was too big – the idea of PYXL was born, and I promised that in under a year (stealing an hour here and there after work / on weekends) I would launch my first app.

This blog post is a collection of images from my sketchbooks / notebooks about how the app progressed through its development lifecycle.
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I use mine for

* Switching music while in the shower / while hosting parties

* Runkeeper for cycling

* I have pushover setup for any important server issues / growl notifications / iffit stuff to send to my watch (best imo is I get a message every morning when my alarm goes off telling me what the weather will be for the day)

* 7 Min workout app is pretty cool

* Tetris app if i'm bored

But its really great for meetings so I can see if I actually need to look at my phone or not to pickup a call / respond to texts

I love the thing
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but a person's reputation on the net is inherently non-existant, unless they're forced to use their real name, and is somewhat known/famous.

Being able to create fake reviews and fake recommendations is the same problem as spam in email (cept spam is easier to filter out). If sending email costs the sender some token amount (say, 1cent per 1000 email), it would probably stop majority of spam, because it just became cost-ineffective. That was why i was suggesting paying token amount for writing reviews - tho i have no doubts there are flaws with that idea….
Probably the Windows indexing service. It's configured to run when you're not using your computer. You can turn it off and see if that stops the hard drive noises: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-f...
I own a 2006 525i BMW Sedan and I was recently in a situation about 2 months ago where a car pulled out of a side-street as I was passing on a main road, I had no choice but to yank my steering wheel and hard-brake (fortunately no other cars where behind me at the time). The car is 7 years old, but has steering assist which works with the brake assist technology the car has in which the computer takes over both the steering and braking to prevent a spin out and it worked well. The computer actually corrected the steering for me the best it could and stopped the vehicle. I could have easily gone into a power or light pole, but the car prevented it. I was doing 80km/hr which is essentially 50mph. Hastings was going 16km/hr at 60mph faster than what I was so it's not the same, but if a 7 year old BMW can do that, then I'd imagine a 2013 Mercedes would be better (that's just an assumption however).

I am not fuelling conspiracies, I am just trying to say that we should always dig deeper into an unexplained situation like this. Especially one surrounded by controversy. I would actually be interested in hearing what Mercedes has to say about the accident and perhaps even seeing Mercedes trying to replicate the crash using the same car and known data. Because controversy aside, this doesn't bode well for Mercedes' image especially considering Princess Diana suffered a similar fate in a Mercedes at similar speeds, only her Mercedes didn't explode that I am aware of. This is a potential PR disaster for Mercedes, regardless of speeds or safety features of the car perception is what sells car and if a modern Mercedes is perceived as being a moving exploding bomb which isn't a good image for any company to have regardless of what the real facts are.
(former firefighter) I would look to local and state police for their reports. Any fatal accident with a possibility of foul play, or obvious foul play (DUI, etc) resulted in us assisting the State Police reconstruction team while they processed the scene, measuring and photographing everything to the millimeter, because once we cleaned it up, there was no going back.

That said, I've also seen plenty of crazy vehicle accidents, including fires, many of which are hard to explain how they could have happened. For example, a car where the entire drivers side was smashed into the back seat from driving into a telephone pole. The driver's survival story? "Thank god i wasn't wearing a seatbelt and my car had a bench seat"... She moved over at the last second.

Seatbelts don't always save lives...
I've yet to see any witness accounts that are consistent with an explosion (and trust me, I've spent a fair amount of time looking). The post crash video looks like an 'ordinary' post crash vehicle fire to me. I don't see any signs of an explosion.

What happens to the engine depends very much on how the impact occurred, and the energies involved. I've seen a handful of wrecks where some substantial piece of the vehicle (engine, transmission, etc) was tossed a long distance. Incidentally, all of those were very high speed collisions, and they all involved at least one fatality. There were all slightly off-axis impacts trees or very solid posts, where the point of impact was about halfway between the midline of the vehicle and one of the front corners.
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Well my friend, I suggest we wait a year or two, and it might be clear which of us is right.

I am old enough to have lived through the Pentagon Papers disclosures, when a lot of people were calling for the execution of Daniel Ellesberg. Now, only right wing whackos don't acknowledge that Ellesberg served interests of US citizens.

EDIT: I am not being critical of you. I appreciate your comment, thanks.
My vote is Ovid gets a pass. Been learning from his Perl posts for 10+ years.
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You're talking in circles, and in your first paragraph literally just repeated back to me what I'd written about your post. In any case, we have already had many people attack theories of government involvement based on a lack of evidence. Yet, many posit theories with less evidence (such as yours). So, I merely asked why such theories should be any more credible. That is why it doesn't work for you to merely repeat my words back to me.

In your second paragraph you opine about us all being adults, capable of rational discussion, yet you made no substantive contribution to that discussion. You just kind of made the observation that this is a great place to do it. If one were so inclined. I guess. Then, you go on to lament about some imaginary future date wherein people use the site to create their own realities or something.

What is all this meta-talk? If you want the site to be about discussion of various ideas, then discuss yours! Make your counter-point and defend your position vs. whining about someone disagreeing with you. Do you really not see the irony in passing on opportunities to make your point, and instead using them to express your worry that someday you won't be able to make your point?

Good grief. As it is, your entire post was a NOOP.
Assassination by remote controlling the target's car is a Wile E. Coyote level plan. It's hard to imagine any remotely competent government group or organized crime group choosing it. Given the nature of his work, there are much easier methods that would be less work to carry out, have much lower risk of failure, and have much lower risk of leaving behind evidence that might raise suspicion or lead back to those responsible.
> I tend to see our government (today) as a very mismanaged large corporation.

I don't know, I think the US government seems pretty ruthlessly efficient at toppling Middle Eastern governments, transferring wealth from taxpayers to big banks and large corporations, increasingly centralizing power into the federal government and large corporations, and breaking down families and increasing reliance on the state. And spying on it's own citizens.

I suppose, if you automatically dismissed any such thoughts to the contrary as "ridiculous conspiracy theories", it could look like it is all a problem of mismanagement. Maybe.
I don't think he has any moral obligation to donate the amount asked by Lodsys. Putting his head on the block like this is already helping a lot more than $3500 given to lawyers could.
Diaspora? Is that still going?
As a firefighter, I've seen many cars burn like that. That's what vehicle fires look like. Car interiors are _full_ of flammable stuff. Seat cushions, plastics, rubber... etc... The energy output of a burning car is really incredible.
Don't worry, I understand.
I wonder if services like this will become more popular?
I am afraid Taylorious misses the point. I am afraid sage_joch misses the point in an even worse way. You may be surprised to hear this: it does not matter politically one tiny iota whether the FBI killed Michael Hastings. He's just one journalist, there are many like him.

What matters is what happens after Mr. Hastings' death. If the FBI is to be trusted, they will deny involvement on the low and the high: a trustworthy organization does not want to create even the slightest perception that they would kill a journalist. A trustworthy organization does not wish to instill fear in Hastings' colleagues. If, however, the FBI is not to be trusted, they will spread rumors that they are responsible: even if they did not kill him, it benefits them that journalists would be nervous to investigate them. This was the tactic of the KGB in the Soviet Union: they would stoke rumors of their ferocity by claiming responsibility for the otherwise-natural deaths of political contrarians.

What is truly to be feared is not that the FBI killed Michael Hastings, but that the FBI would like people to believe they killed Michael Hastings. Therefore, a rational yet paranoid individual might suspect sage_joch of being an NSA provocateur, but not Taylorious. That is the sort of corruption that will send a country into the dark ages for a century.
The gocircuit project is trying to make distributed goroutines practical but it seems a little rough: http://www.gocircuit.org/
There are two issues with what you suggest (looking up patents ahead of time):

1. Many times the Cease & Desists, or "Invitations to License" are about completely tangential topics or technologies to the core of your business.

2. If you do specifically look for patents ahead of time, and this becomes known in any legal proceedings, the penalties for willful violation of assorted IP are higher. IANAL but have heard this often enough from people, without seeing it refuted. Someone do correct me if I'm wrong.
I could argue that this is the sort of thing a non-profit ought to figure out before soliciting donations. At present I can find no record of the Bitcoin Foundation having filed for nonprofit status, and they don't explain their corporate structure on their website. You can't just say you're a nonprofit entity, there are rules about how you must apply for that status and what sort of public declarations you must make.

How do you know, for example, that it's not a scam? According to the letter, BF it is incorporated in DC and has offices in Seattle, but good luck finding the address or any other information. Regulators are not psychic, and they're well within their rights to say 'stop soliciting money from the general public until you've made the requisite declarations,' because entities that solicit money without having their paperwork in order often turn out to be operating illegally.
Except two of those examples fail your conditions?
Great comment. As someone who works for the U.S. government (all opinions here are my own!), one of the most frustrating things about working there is the extreme sense of risk aversion in trying new things. If you stick to the status quo and don't rock the boat, even if what you are doing isn't effective you won't run into any difficulties. However, the second you try something new and it fails (or just doesn't live up to expectations), allegations of waste and incompetence follow.

In the private sector, how many companies have spent millions trying to figure out how to make social media work for their businesses before finding an approach that delivers results? If government doesn't have the same flexibility to experiment, it will never figure out how to harness some of these new tools and will end up being relegated even more than it already is to using obsolete approaches and technologies.

Ideally government would have the ability to rapidly try new, small dollar projects with the expectation that many efforts would fail but a few would succeed and end up contributing to a new way of doing business. Unfortunately the institutional bias towards big, safe, and old-fashioned approaches is reinforced each time an innovative attempt at something new is perceived as falling short.
a) Some plugins can now be installed without restarting

b) Certainly, a completely-restartless plugin system would reduce that number, but most people probably settle into a set of plugins and don't go changing them all that often, so I'm not sure what sort of impart that actually has on these 96-98% numbers.
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Mozilla Persona is basically this, plus usability and fallbacks for older browsers.
IndexedDB allows direct access to the blobs like a file: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileReader
My company TMSOFT was recently sued by Lodsys in the eastern district of Texas.

Again with this "eastern district of Texas". Might there be a way for the tech community to punish this podunk little area for letting themselves become a thorn in everyone's side? Refuse to ship or sell there? Put something in the TOS that refuses all support for products used there? Seems like something needs to be done to get the attention of the residents of this area and let them know that their local court has been usurped by trolls and is creating a national nuisance. If they all woke up one morning to find that Netflix was out and they couldn't even google why, it might get their attention.
Doesn't social proof constitute a valid operating expense when you're in the business of peddling BS?
The digits can spin independently. The computer driving the display can go "backwards" by just advancing the digits until the correct one is shown.
You can put the car in neutral or turn off the ignition.
1M is chump change for a large code base and business infrastructure.

Not even counting the userbase.

There could also be some kind of noncompete this gets around.
Unfortunately I think much of this story is going to be forgotten quickly when the hunt for Snowden is over. I think the media is covering this so much just because right now it is a big cat and mouse game. When that is over and another more exciting soundbite comes up...that's that.

This type of spying has been known and approved and even published in the mainstream press since at least 06 and it hasnt bothered the majority of the public until now. Therefore I think the current uproar is just excitement related to the chase and the press will forget and fall back in line to more "if it leads it bleeds" content soon enough.
Bringing the virtual back into the physical world is kind of an interesting thing. See also: 3D printing.
"Sorry, flights from South Korea are not currently supported."

Which is fine, because local websites always have 30%+ cheaper rates than ITAsoftware, Hipmunk et al.
When https was invented, we imagined that users would have personal certificates for authentication (&c).