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It's a bit of a conundrum. How do we make people care more about privacy when society is busy transforming itself to care less?

I'm not sure that society is transforming itself. I feel like there are certain corporate actors that are extremely influential in this area and should either review their business ethics or prepare to be regulated out of their present mode of existence.

I don't think the cypherpunk movement has a hope of combating this trend.

Perhaps you are right, but defeatism and apathy is easy. Why shouldn't people who dislike the negative aspects of society's present direction challenge themselves? As the old Margaret Mead saying goes, "Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Whatever it does for the good of society will have to be done in spite of society rather than with it's willing participation.

Will is a funny one. If you take the oft-quoted computational sphere view on truths, cultimating in self-evidence, then it may be fair to say that such truths entering the stage of self-evidence are indeed accepted by society with it's willing participation.
For clarification, it wasn't a game that did the mining, but the ESEA client. What makes it worse is ESEA is already a paid service.
When is discrimination against an individual based on his or her employer detrimental to the good of humanity?
And just to extend that point - people can upgrade to an SSD or a new monitor without buying a whole new PC (unless they have an ultrabook or all-in-one, and they are relatively new categories). Its not like the old days where you needed to upgrade your whole architecture (or buy a new machine) every couple of years.
I've been effective with Markdown and pandoc backed by git or Dropbox for my own work, but with shared documents it's always Word with track changes. I think part of the problem is that everyone you're working with needs to be comfortable with the editing tools you use, and with more people Word quickly becomes the lowest common denominator for collaboration.
a fire truck costs $250000. for the truck. If you don't need a 150 foot ladder and 1000 gallons of water, then a tool-truck like many contractors have would probably do for much less cost.
But if you have no interest in advertising and would pay to avoid adverts... There is no choice.
Hopefully they optimize the device for v0.2 ;)
Well to bad I'm sitting in the wrong region of this localized internet. As so often the interesting resources are hidden behind a location-filter.

[irony] As we are used in Germany, we are kept in the dark. [irony end]
People care about what their peers think of them. Even if a recruit don't have a problem with what the NSA does, the job is significantly less "cool" today than it was not that long ago.
water chip?
I need to buy lot of them before World War III starts. I got a feeling I'm gona need one in the vault.
An often ignored aspect of version control is that commit access is strictly defined and enforced by the software. This is difficult when you have multiple versions of documents with formatting problems emailed around.
An interesting thought experiment is speculate as to when the state of the art in automated flight control and supervision (AFC&S) advances to the point at which human intervention in the flight process causes more harm than good.

I'm guessing it will be about the same time that human surgeons are significantly less effective than fully automated systems.

30 years? 50 years?

It's probably already reached the case that for the non-corner case scenario (cross winds, flight emergency, exceptions) - that a fully automated system probably meets the performance of a human pilot, and the human pilot's major contribution is the ability to exercise executive judgement in the event of exception cases.
I'm not sure how kindly the law would look at you using the plate obscuring products, but these products could be a privacy measure if they are ineffective against law enforcement. The idea being once there is a human involved, the cost goes up. This would drive up the minimum price that these private companies could sell their services for.
Two nice photos and twitter bootstrap?
However to those in the know, it is associated with greed under the guise of "service to the public".

Don't forget a US-centric internet, far more readily controlled and manipulated by that state than any other.
If one doesn't want to be besmirched by the dealings of an employer that profits from supplying mass surveillance tech then one should work elsewhere.
>Additionally their flow rate is 0.4 microlitres per minute, this would equate to needing 625 000 channels for one pass only to get 250mL / min. Scaling for microfluidics isn't simply using a larger pipe size, microfluidic devices largely operate with minimal forces and a Reynolds number of 1, that doesn't hold as you get larger.

What about parallelization? Are there any obvious downsides to simply having lots of the active units, aside from the (what seems to me largely manageable) increase in micro fluidic chip complexity?
Well, I have a seemingly infinite world of information at my disposal already. And I spend most of my free time reading HN. I don't think it will be that big of a deal. Most people will just willingly choose not to invade your privacy even if no one would find out if they did (besides, who's to say I don't start a database of people who look at databases of this private info?). Anyhow, I should cruise wikipedia more.
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And iOS, please.
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Not only is this an unmanned aircraft, it is an autonomous (as opposed to remotely piloted) aircraft. This means that instead of a human controlling the landing, the aircraft was instructed to land and executed the descent and landing on its own.

Anyone who's been involved in carrier operations will tell you that landing a jet on the deck is non-trivial even with experience. The fact that an aircraft can do this autonomously is quite impressive.
What am I missing? I'm not really seeing a difference between Mailbox/Tempo's scarcity vs. that of Facebook. How is the technical limitation of "load testing" any different than Zuck telling people he wanted to maintain a certain level of service? Isn't the message "this tool is only for Harvard kids" just as snooty and likely a turnoff to potential users?
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From the ruling, it appears Apple is in trouble for knowingly and actively providing a venue for conspiring publishers to conspire, which is illegal. Interestingly, the judge points out there's no evidence that Apple wanted to raise prices at all. But there wasn't anything inherently wrong with the agency model or MFN clauses, except in relation to the publishers intent to increase prices.
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I did pick up on that, but struggle to believe you genuinely believe that the term "netbook" originated from a concept of the browser-only system. I suspect you might be mangling the semantics to fit a product you like. The most likely origin of the term for me is the mass-media, recommending the lighter units for web-browsing as that's all they were capable of. This all before pads and tabs hit the big-time. Or, specifically not manufacturers intending to build browser-only systems.

Cue a few years of Moore's Law, and the net effect of a market for affordable yet usable portable machines produces capable, upgradeable machines. And tablets. Cue content producer/consumer distinction etc.
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> Lastly, apparently the Asiana Air CEO has been quoted as saying that all responsibility lies with the pilots and that he and/or the company are not responsible. Great to know that your boss has your back

So who is responsible for hiring good pilots?
I'm not arguing against banning advertising. Actually, I think that would be a fine idea.

Just recognize that unless you do ban advertising, the result of this change will not be what's intended. The intended result is that websites, in general, stop tracking anonymous users. Instead, it will result in every user being explicitly tracked.

The most important issue here is that the political feasibility of reducing tracking of anonymous users is equivalent to the political feasibility of banning advertising.

(I'm slightly overselling here -- in reality, a good amount of advertising of the "sponsorship" form would still work. But the impact would be large enough that most websites would force login as I describe rather than stop tracking people.)
In the sense that price fixing is one of many cartel behaviors, yes.

Cartels do plenty of other antitrust related behaviors too (bid rigging, gouging, etc)
Why "intentionally". May be it was put there intentionally but leaving it that way was a mistake. I don't think that's a backdoor, just from the article.
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Storing 47GB would cost you 47 cents/month on Glacier.

And can you download 47GB faster than your mom can mail you a DVD?

Probably, though I'm not quite sure about the speed of S3. I use a cheap VPS instead (much more expensive than Glacier, but also much, much more useful), from which I can easily get 3MB/s, so that would definitively be yes.
What I find odd is that with such an increase in the use of simulators most pilots should find flying an airplane by hand to be second nature.
I am a Bulgarian living in Bulgaria at the moment with experience of assembling a few startup teams already. There are major problems with the talent and their attitude. And a lot of the top people just move out of the country.

Bulgaria is a not a good place for startup right now - too much regulation, too much bureaucracy insanity, very high hidden taxes and broken and chronically underfunded high education system.
How are you defining things that are to the detriment of humanity? Which ethical system are you making judgements like that on? Does the scale of things that are bad for humanity come into play?
It doesn't say it was left there intentionally. We don't have (or this article does not give) information enough to call it a backdoor.
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So discrimination against employees is okay if you don't like the employer?
That's a very good point. This would definitely happen to some degree. But it would still hurt internet advertising a good deal not to be able to track uniques, to show you an ad only once per day, to count how many people have been shown an ad, etc. even if you could know about how many people were on the site.

The result would likely be tracking via login as I describe, rather than true anonymity.
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Ah thanks for clearing that up. It's in a newer (C++03?) standard. I still have to deal with gcc 2.95 on a regular basis so I'm stuck in the old ways. I guess that is why the title was 'Modern C++'.
Only if I search for every place I go to. If you had an affair you might search for an address once, which hardly implies anything. I don't need directions and couldn't for the life of me be bothered to google an address I already knew how to get to. I don't use google maps to find out where my work is every morning...

There is a great point in limiting the number and kind of searches if your goal is privacy. There is a great point in going half / half on search engines. Especially on something as directions, if that was a big issue you could hardly live with an android phone (or iOS for that matter).

Now, cell tower location tracking - that the EU forces my ISP to keep track of, could tell an automated algorithm all the things you've mentioned. And the only way to opt out of that would be to abandon mobile phones altogether which is quite a sacrifice (just leaving the phone when doing the stuff you'd rather no one would find out is a huge red flag).
While the bill might be $1k+, the amount collections would reasonably collect is probably more in the $100 range for what amount to doctors visits.
It looks like he's been stalled in the 5.5 - 6.0 handicap range for the past year. http://thedanplan.com/statistics-2/

Michael Jordan, on the other hand, reached a 3 handicap in far fewer hours while still playing basketball professionally. Talent matters.
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Under which law. Current data retention laws are you have to retain what you say you retain. So if your stated policy is 90 days but you only keep 30, you are not compliant. But if you keep 0 and state you keep 0 days you are compliant. Obviously, there are different rules for finance, govt, and medical industries.
I think the same goes for most of Western Europe. You rarely see fire trucks, but police cars and ambulances are common.
There's no guarantee that CC2.8xlarge will own the whole box. It might be that way today, but not if Amazon runs virts on even larger boxes in the future.
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In VPS, memory is everything. Memory is the # of VMs they can spin up, which is directly proportional to the amount of money they're making. What you're ultimately paying for is memory. Yes, some bandwidth, but mostly memory. It's what hotel rooms are for hotels.
He might be referring to the "hydraulic analogy" of electricity: A wire is a water pipe, voltage is water pressure, amperage is total water flow. A battery is a pump pushing water through the pipes, voltage is how hard the pump pushes, and amperage is limited by how wide the pipes are, and thus how much resistance they impose on the flow of water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_analogy

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/watcir.h...
I keep a can of Raid on my desk in case I find a bug in the software.
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> Connect a 3 volt battery to a .01 ohm load (a dead short, almost) and 300 amps of current will flow

Except it won't, of course, because all real batteries have internal resistance. (How much depends on the battery chemistry and size.) Probably the 700mA rating for the AA battery is into a dead short.
I'm actually saying that the "predatory money extracting non-games" aren't necessarily that. I get a strong whiff of "get off my lawn" vibes from the people who hate that business model for gaming. I'd prefer a more nuanced discussion that didn't dismiss all such games out-of-hand. For a forum that loves (LOVES) freemium startup models, it sure hates on the freemium model applied to video games.
I worked with GVentures' design team while contracting/advising a startup, and they're awesome. As a result of working with dozens of startups they've developed a really solid and nuanced workflow that really impressed me. More generally, having a UX team in place for startups that need it is a pretty big bonus, and a good reason to take funding from Google over other VCs if you're not an inherently design-driven team.
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> I'm a little surprised you can sue for "damaging client's systems and spiking their electricity bills".

Running a GPU at 100% for days will destroy said GPU pretty quickly. Heat can only escape from things so fast without being given a cool down period. GPUs regularly run $400+ and there was malicious intent with regard to the damage (unlike most bugs on websites/etc.).
Using 625 000 channels is parallelization. Those channels are in parallel.
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I'm not sure what you mean. The post you linked to is pure flame-bait that furthers little meaningful discussion. There is room in the App Store for both "time vs. money"-type freemium games and everyone-pays-up-front games. Sure, some people will burn out on freemium games, but I myself have burned out (a bit) on "pay up front" games (I've spent hundreds, if not thousands on Steam on games I have never played...) At least with freemium games I only have to open my wallet after I've decided I really like it.
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The absolute minimum energy you need is 2.2kJ per liter.

Where's that number from? For what process?
I don't think Windows 8 is causing the decline, but what it is doing is failing to reverse it. Traditionally, a new release of Windows has been a driver of PC sales because it did new and useful things that people wanted. The problem with Windows 8 is that for a laptop it is pretty much on balance worse than Windows 7. (To be clear, it definitely does quite a number of things better, but it does about the same number of things worse, and the ones that are worse are right in your face while the improvements are mostly behind the scenes).

I actually doubt Microsoft is too surprised by this. My feeling is that they pretty much wrote off Windows 8 as collateral damage from their push into the touch screen / tablet market which they consider to be essential to future survival. They may suffer huge losses in sales from Win8 licenses but the upside is that their new UI is getting forced in front of every consumer and business professional. That is something money simply can't buy. Come Windows 9, when the actually do something people want, people will be buying something familiar.
Hmmmm I'm not sure it does. The problem (I have experienced) with Phabricator is that it only operates on the diff you upload, so it can lack context of the project as a whole.
GPUs overheating and getting damaged from said heat. Running a GPU at 100% for days is probably a good way to burn it up.
You guys are amazingly mature and civilized for a social website. You make reddit look like Aleppo!
No it can't and it shouldn't. The GPU will just downclock if it can't handle the heat.
Does Arq fit the OP's use case of backing up files to AWS without keeping them on your local machine?
I have said it many times on HN and I'll say it again: I LOVE my Samsung ARM Chromebook. I'll just quote my previous comments:

It's $250 so there's no argument about buying X or Y netbook instead, you can barely get anything with a keyboard that browses the internet for that price. Also for that price you get 2 (3?) years of 100GB on Google Drive and 12 Gogo WiFi passes, which together are already worth over $250. So you can throw the device in the trash and still come out on top.

Now to the computer itself:

First, the battery life is awesome, 6.5 hours of solid use (WiFi model) and since it turns on from cold in ~7 seconds you can turn it off between sessions and not lose any power at all. If that's too long for you just close the lid, you'll lose about 1% per hour but everything resumes instantly when you open it (and I do mean INSTANTLY).

Second, the hardware is really excellent for the price. The keyboard is my favorite laptop keyboard out there (even against my MBP) and the trackpad is second only to Apple devices imo. It's the same weight/size as a MacBook Air but maybe 0.2" thicker. The only hardware downsides are the plastic chassis and the screen's somewhat bad viewing angles.

Third, it runs most of what you need right out of the box. I don't even have my in developer mode, you don't need that to use Google's Secure Shell and Remote Desktop Chrome extensions. It has an Offline version of Google Drive so you can keep your most important documents local and everything syncs when you're connected.

Fourth, it's stress-free. Because everything is synchronized to the cloud and the hardware is so cheap, you never have to worry about this thing. If it breaks (which it won't easily), just go to your nearest Best Buy, drop $250, and sign in with you Google account and you'll be back exactly where you left off (even down to the tabs you had open).
I really can't recommend this device more highly. It's definitely not the right device for full-time development but as a companion to a larger laptop or a desktop it's a perfect second machine and much more useful than an iPad or Transformer-style tablet (I've had both).
Almost, but there are still a bunch of niggling annoyances. Eg: lots of things (such as viewing photos) still throw you into the metro UI by default.
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Here is this link again: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=204063&cid=16678583

However one wants to define 'directly from the servers of' or 'direct access' I think for all intents and purposes it means the same thing.
>Don't all video games do that?

The software actually provides access to competitive leagues and various other resources for various games.

I think this is a good summary of the backstory:

http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1hn6n5/esea_north_ameri...
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I don't get it. Why does it matter if your tool just decrypts SSL or you use a tool that decrypts SSL and additionally unpacks the binary representation of HTTP 2.0?

The output is exactly the same - plain old HTTP.
Wouldn't it be nice to have some people working in government that are not interested in undermining privacy and feeding the surveillance-industrial complex?
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Is is matter of writing style what makes a submission successful? Content? What do most HN readers want to see here? Personal stories? Technical articles? Good writing takes time and a lot of deliberate practice, and I'm trying. I know a few of my posts are at least "somewhat interesting" as they have caught the eye of some companies, which provided me some work as a freelance, but I've never yet been able to post a blockbuster post. My blog: http://atrilla.net/
Yes, parallelization is actually the currently accepted means of increasing throughput, you'll see diagnostic devices with thousands of channels. The reason it isn't appropriate here is because of the complexity, the design is easy, you make a radial pattern of inlets with the splits towards the middle so you can combine outlets of the same type. Construction is relatively easy as well.

The problem comes from the number of inlets. You can:

a) a common inlet to all of your channels, or
b) independent inlet for each channel, or for several channels

a) might seem intuitive, the problem is limitations on channel width, the inlet would have to feed a single channel which would then split (they would split to the inlet channel from the paper), structural limitations of PDMS and manufacturing have maximum widths and heights in millimetres at best. Which would not be enough to achieve the throughput required. The original 'master' inlet would probably have to be at least in the 10-20 cm range to achieve flow rates that could make this a household filter.

Even with another, stronger material, and perhaps manufacturing techniques I'm not aware of you still have limitations of pressure, their channels are very small in the paper (for a reason), pressure becomes a limiting factor to prevent their failure.

The problem with b is sheer complexity, you're talking about 10 000 tubes and connectors and holes punched into a chip if you even do a 1 - 60 split. The chip with just the channels would be about the size of a tissue box, this wouldn't be able to accomodate the channels so now you're talking about something tens of metres x tens of metres. This is hugely cost prohibitive and the channels from connectors would have to be really long, really long channels need more pressure to drive the liquid requiring more energy which reduces the efficiency significantly.

The reason parallelizaton works in pharmaceutical / DNA testing applications is you're going from microlitres of DNA/samples to nano, or picolitres in the channels, a single inlet can sufficiently provide that throughput (you're talking 10 uL / hour perfusion rates)

Edit: TL;DR version: Construction constraints would make this have worse efficiency than reverse osmosis and cost a lot more to manufacture as well.
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