skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a different explanation. Like many corrupt Asian governments (and I have lived in Asia for 10y+) they usually abide to this principle: if you discover some new way to make money, we either have to make money too out of it and without doing anything, or you have to stop.
So in this case my theory is that they looked at it and like most computer illiterate governments they thought to stop it until they understand how the game works and start making money out of it themselves. I mean personally.
Expect pretty soon to see some new Bitcoin service to appear in Thailand, with some weird license from the government, and founded (probably indirectly) by some corrupted member of the government or someone from their relatives.
Patents shouldn't be perpetual - but why not copyright?
Aside from the clear color contrast, optional mouseover effects, and icons (down arrows in some cases).

I think this is the kind of change everyone loves to nitpick about, but that everyone adapts to.
9 Ways People Screw Up Their Product Demos
>> You don't see this kind of innovation in the American health system because it has been engineered with greed in mind right from the start.

This is nothing but circlejerking. Sure the poor starving people of India are less greedy minded than rich Americans who could afford to be charitable.

The reason why Indian healthcare system has more innovation than American healthcare system is precisely because of the opposite. The latter is more greedy than former and it is allowed to go in the right direction.

Its easy for you to think that a product which is charging $40 per bottle profit on a $10 operating cost would make more profit than competitor's product which charges $5 profit the same bottle, but what you fail to understand that the latter will have more sales and therefore will be able to make more profit. This means people have an incentive to reduce their per item/action profit in order to increase their overall profits.

If American healthcare market was allowed to be more free, you'd see lower prices and WAY more profits for healthcare companies.
Yes, that's what my comment indicates: the company inquired whether a license is needed, and whether it could be granted. The Bank of Thailand says that yes, one would be needed (they are engaged in financial services, after all), but under current law cannot be granted (there is no provision for licensing the kind of financial services the company proposes to carry out). Hence, the company decided to suspend operations.

The point is that the initiators of the discussion were a company seeking information about operating as a financial-services company. It wasn't a police-initiated operation, like a raid on an individual buying things with Bitcoin, or something of that sort.
It gets tricky when some software companies include licensing terms that effectively force the consumer to buy from within Australia at elevated prices in order to access their warranty/support.

I guess in the purest sense this is still something the buyer can factor into their decision. Market forces will dictate an overall adjustment, etc.

Still seems fairly shady to me and like others have said I'm glad it's being brought to the public's attention.
Objecting to his attitude is above your pay grade, son.
I really wouldn't call this an alternative. If you are running memcached, it's very unlikely you can switch to Groupcache.

Parts of your application may rely on the expiration feature. But the biggest change is the inability to overwrite a current cache key. Every application I've used does this constantly (object updates).

Groupcache in its current form is useful for a very narrow set of applications.
I don't think it's just Arizona that's pinching the public universities.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/01/23/state-funds-hi...

New Hampshire had a 41% one year drop!
Oh you mean unconstitutional, like executing an American citizen without due process, like Obama has already done?

Being a member of the US military is completely irrelevant, you really have no education on this topic. I suggest you read up on the NDAA, and the other crimes against the Constitution that have been committed by Bush and Obama. Whether or not they transfer citizens to Guantanamo is irrelevant, they could send him to some military prison indefinitely, which is the real crime.

If you don't feel like participating in this discussion, and spreading your "hypobolic" poison, then feel free to completely drop out.

And unlike you, I don't have a defeatist attitude. Even though people such as yourself refuse to be educated, I think there is a real chance, especially after the anti-NDA vote, that people will get their message across to the politicians. My hope is that politicians that actual believe in things, like Rand Paul, will get voted to lead this country, as opposed to phonies and shysters that want a fat pension.
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I guess it's differing tastes, but I'd much rather have one less remote control and just be able to use one (or more) of the devices that I always have within arms reach. If the Apple TV had a decent app to use instead of the remote I would use it and dump Apple's joke of a remote. It doesn't, the app is literally four arrows so you can navigate around like the very limited remote. Steve Jobs hated buttons and as a result his ideal remote is garbage.

Using WiFi also means line of sight isn't necessary which is a nice perk.
Your answer raises my eyebrows even more.

I ask why you don't use DH and you answer "because we want forward secrecy". DH has been designed for perfect forward secrecy. Therefore I fear we might have some sort of misunderstanding here.

You don't want to permit known plain text attack as "in depth defense" approach. If there is ever any weakness in your software, you want to make it very hard to exploit it. Known plaintext will make exploiting weaknesses in your PRNG very easy for example.

As for your last comment... If someone ever changes the behavior of read_packet, you're dead. So I'm sorry, but you have potential buffer overflow. Think in 4 dimensions Marty! :)
>letter of the month in Time Management Magazine in the early 1990s

Please post a scan of that.

Actually maybe don't, there's no way the reality of Time Management Magazine circa 1990 is going to live up to what my imagination is currently constructing.
For those that didn't catch it, this is from Brad Fitzpatrick, the same guy who made memcache
What do you suppose a drone does if the command channel and the encrypted GPS signal are both unavailable/jammed but the unencrypted GPS signal is available?

In any case, you don't have to be able to decrypt a GPS signal to be able to replay it - you fly a plane 200m above the drone, record whatever's coming over the air from the satellites and you know precisely what would be at the drone's antenna if it were 200m higher. Rebroadcast that at the drone's antenna et Voilà, the drone thinks it's 200m higher than it is.
> Nonce's are "Numbers used ONCE", they 1) don't need to be secret and 2) ARE NOT encryption keys.

We know.

Putting the nonces in the handshake along with the session public key was simple.

In the NaCl docs it is advised that if you can keep the nonces secret that you do so.
There is a reason there are controls to allow you to upvote, or downvote stories. If you don't like a story, and have nothing to contribute to the story, downvote it. If the story is in the top few, it's because people (that aren't you) are interested in knowing that github is getting attacked.

EVERYTHING is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things.

Edit: Heh, there are no downvotes on HN for stories. My bad.
Russian mafia?
But what's the value or the point? What am I missing? Why would I want to, say, have a serious 1:1 with my boss in a Romance Room? Maybe I'm too old for this level of "whimsy"...?
Mr. Moose isn't using them anymore.
I'm assuming this was design by committee. The first versions of Bootstrap seem a whole lot better visually.
OT: How much karma do I need to have to see the downvote button?
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Looks like everything is still up though. What is being DDOS'd exactly?
"The group said a veto would upset decades of settled expectations and undermine the enforceability of valuable patents."

This would be a good thing in my opinion.
It's Jim Flannery.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesjohnflannery/
I'd find it kind of annoying, although meetings with your boss in the "Breakup Room" would be even worse. It seems like a really dumb branding idea for an office. The space itself is nice, though.

I would have gone with filesystem concepts like inode, vfs, uid, gid, etc.
I made the mistake of writing a short series of blog posts about unsolved math problems a few years ago. It seemed innocent enough at the time, but I still get "proofs" submitted today. I'm a programmer, not a mathematician, so in a lot of cases I don't even know enough to be able to tell people why they're wrong (other than the fact that they submitted their proof of Goldbach's conjecture to a programming blog).
A fiat currency is one declared by a government, but there are many private currencies out there.

For example, the Chiemgauer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiemgauer

In most cases, using a different medium of exchange is legal. For example, a merchant can accept Euros if they choose.
Thanks, I've been thinking about something like this but initially I called it a "private job board", so I couldn't do it.
The simple solution is to always version everything. There's no such thing as an update, merely a new version of a thing.
That was scheduled maintenance, however. They had big banners with warnings everywhere on Bitbucket for several days before the event.
You must be really evil if you are attacking github!
I noticed this when he talked about speeding up the Google download servers. Very interesting :)

Its an alternative to memcache but not a direct replacement. I hope he adds CAS etc.

I hope they start using the kernel's buffer cache as the backing store, or explain why its not a good idea: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/13363076806/buffc...
Yes, good encryption/hashing assumes the algorithm is known, but we're also talking about the giving away the salt. The salt in a secure hash plays an analogous role to the secret key in an encryption cipher; both are assumed unknown by an attacker.
Fine question. It still works perfectly either way. As it stands, its minimalism doesn't need a whole lot of maintenance, but it may not be actively maintained any more.
When I finally prove the Riemann Hypothesis it will be presented in HTML5 and Javascript with interactive graphs.
US patent office rejects claims of Apple 'pinch to zoom' patent
>and didn't assume I think animal-eating was invented 200 years ago...

Sorry to jump here, but he clearly did not wrote that. He wrote in fact the opposite. He said we have been killing animals to survive for a very long time.

It is you who attach some kind of moral meaning to the act of killing and eating an animal. Some people have to do it, for them to feel purer (in the past) or hipsterer (now). I would prefer to become food at the end of my life, Soylent Green style, instead of such mind shenanigan‎s.

It's good that you don't ask for bags in the grocery, but in the end this means little if human population keeps growing and growing.
Sure! What he says is essentially "I used to be confused and hurt by users' complaints and desires. Then I devised a pop-psych theory for why users have desires, and having done that, I can confidently tell them to go to hell."

This is terrible, terrible design philosophy and no one should ever listen to it. The end.
You don't want to accidentally make it public, which might happen if your webserver points to the root of the git working copy.
There is no downvote button on submissions only upvote and flag.
You may be interested in: http://www.bot.or.th/English/ForeignExchangeRegulations/FXRe...
Interesting, thanks for the idea. I've just finished setting up an IPv6tunnel w/ sixxs.net, so I'll have to see if IPv6 connectivity provides a better YouTube experience on my network.

YouTube usually works quite well on my network (TimeWarner Cable in SE Wisconsin, US), but occasionally I'll be completely unable to receive HD streams of certain content, so I have to select 480/320p to buffer the video at all.
This law in the USD version was/is in force in some pretty major parts of the world. It kind of screws up the actual exchange rates - you're paying premium for the illegality. Around the time (80's) I was born you could buy a bottle of vodka for $0.80 in an USD-accepting (high-margin) shop.
Skiddies gon' skid
I dislike the attitude that he's showing, but I'm glad that he's showing it because the way thinks is not atypical in corporate middle management.

I would hazard the guess that, in 90 percent of companies, a person doing above-grade work that is more interesting than his assigned job-- even if that person is fully "pulling his weight"-- develops a negative reputation that will eventually harm his career. Sadly, perception matters more than what is actually happening.

Also, keep in mind that the real job of management and executives in most companies is reputation management. Their actual purpose is to sustain the reputation of the company so it can trade its wares (produced by the workers) at an advantageous rate. The test of the white-collar peon is how well he supports his manager's reputation. That's why middle managers are allowed to demand total loyalty of their reports. Above-board work that the manager didn't direct ends up minimizing the boss, so any benefit to the company doesn't really matter. I hate that it's that way; companies would be a lot better if people were trusted to work directly for the firm, Valve style, but that's not how most firms operate.
There was a similar discussion on HN a few weeks ago regarding a similar issue about ISPs buffering the CDN (I think).

I dug up a link that I saved:

http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/time-warner-cable-sucks-for-yo...

Here is the fix:

sudo ipfw add reject src-ip 173.194.55.0/24 in
sudo ipfw add reject src-ip 206.111.0.0/16 in
Phone with GPS - such as the iPhone - don't need to talk to anything to geolocate, they just need to listen to the incessant signals sent down by the GPS satellites.

Talking to cell towers can assist the GPS receiver[1], but it's not required.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS
This is akin to robbing a police convention.
and "Ask for sensitive information, even if it's personal at times" FFS thats just asking for trouble.

Hint if you accessed sensitive information with out authorization in many places you will be in trouble.

At my last place my boss was a director and there where things about major changes in the company that he knew about and impacted my job but he was contractual and legally bound not to say anything till its announced.
I got an error message when trying to connect to the App Store yesterday. The first thing I did was refresh HN to see if there was an outage or issue.
Hey, congrats on the hard work. I'm going to try it out. Is there a bird's-eye-view on how you have made it secure?
As mentioned in the paper, a simple solution if there is internet connectivity is to verify that the ephemeris is correct. This is how assisted GPS works in mobile phones and the like anyway (the ephemeris and almanac data are downloaded over the network to increase acquisition times).
Yeah, that's pretty much what I came here to say. His philosophy boils down to "I have a janky pop-psych theory that says that users are clueless and mean, so fuck 'em and do what you want." This is terrible. I kinda don't get why there's debate about it.
Values that must expire could perhaps use a truncated time value as part of the key? It's not as flexible as regular expiration, because the entries would only expire when you cross the point in time where the truncated time value changes, which could be a problem in a lot of applications (sudden surges of requests every x seconds)
This is a poor re-written title. This story is about how every day for up to ten minutes near the London Stock Exchange, someone blocks signals from the GPS network.
Why does it even have that pack method, let alone fill the array backwards? You could just do this._store = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments). Tuple.unpack(callback) isn't any better than callback.apply(x, array), so not sure what value it offers there either. The valueOf definition is the sort of thing that makes me cringe because it would undoubtedly lead to hard-to-diagnose bugs in JS applications. Not sure what anyone would use this type for.

Cute demonstration of ways to extend JS, I guess, but please don't use anything like this code.
same thought, cool common areas, but where are the workspaces?
On a venn diagram of electric cars, good looking cars, and cars that can do more than 100 miles on a charge, why is that the overlap area is still the Tesla by itself? If there was a more affordable Telsa, sales would be insane, yet we keep getting more ugly, tiny-range cars with limited appeal.
This story sounds pretty believable after reading Tom Standage's The Victorian Internet, especially Chapter 8, "Love over the Wires".

That's one of my favorite books (and finally available in a Kindle edition!). Don't take my word for it, read a few of the reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Victorian-Internet/dp/B002STNBKM/

More stories of high tech in the 1800's in Neal Stephenson's Mother Earth Mother Board:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html
I think his claim is both those things. The R&D of the goods was paid for when they were originally sold as high-cost excellent equipment. Now, the existence of even better high-cost treatment options drives down the price of the older originally-high-cost equipment.
…but we're going to keep asking questions about the 7 layer model in interviews as if it were useful in the real world because that's what we learned about in school.
For starters it's available from stores that people trust (Google Play, Amazon and BestBuy), has cross platform support (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android) and is a polished product.

Also, you linked to "Android in a USB stick" products, that's not what Chromecast is.
I was pissed when they "improved" the alt-tab behavior so that I needed to use two hands to switch between two browser windows, for example.

Now I'm happy again, having found this: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/15/alternatetab/

It seems like Gnome is actually allowing MORE freedom now, with this js extension api. If you don't like how it works - just write a small extension.
They even cover this office (without errors!): http://officesnapshots.com/2013/06/05/inside-dropboxs-urbani...
Do you have a source for aircraft flying using GPS alone? My understanding is that they rely on VOR and ILS systems.
Should there be downvote buttons for submissions?
My ideal office remains something like Pioneer Way in MV where you can get a 20-30k sf dedicated standalone building for $1/mo NNN, and then have 4 parking spots per 1000 feet in a gated lot. If you put 25-75 people in a place like that, you could have a lot of dedicated function areas (various labs, datacenter, kitchen, presentation/theater, etc.), meeting areas, open work areas, and private offices. Throw in subscribing to bauer employee bus services for the minority without cars, and having on-site quality food (or walking 10 minutes to Castro St), and it'd be pretty ideal.

Dealing with Mountain View rather than SF government is a big win, too.

Downside would be "crappy view".
Interesting, do you have an example site set up we can check out?
I've been making an effort to learn a bit more about it this week. Once you know a little more about it, your work can look very elegant.
Do you have to use the card itself? Here, if you don't have your card, you can use your phone number. Have the card sent to a "fake" address and just remember the phone number you provided. (Pick an address where someone moved about 8 months or so ago or pick a big apartment building and it will probably get trashed by the receipient instead of being sent back.)

What happens if you lose the card? Do replacement cards get mailed, too?
Why you don't really need an office
"The team was able to make many improvements to the way the language handles clustering and file transfers."

Either the journalist had no business writing this sentence, or the people who designed Go put things in the language that should have been in the libraries. Or both.
I'm not sure if I define CS that narrowly, but anyway I was working with the C compiler, not the asm code. It was a good learning tool for me because of the simple output and the slow processor, which meant that I didn't need to worry much about the graphics and that poorly performing code was immediately, painfully noticeable. There were plenty of data structures to work with sprites, characters, screens, etc.

My CS course (in the late 90s) kind of went the other way. One of the earliest courses was one that taught how a cpu operates -- what a register is, what the accumulator is, etc. There was no actually programming, just working through the steps of what the computer does to perform a given operation. After that there were a number of directions to go in.
You're going to critique me using the word magic? Wow.

Magic in software refers to the ease-of-use and simplicity. I thought that was apparent in this community.
I'm curious what the innovation was here. Laproscopy is not new, and people are already pretty aware of its benefits. He applied it to a new operation, but is that innovation?

The only step that might have been innovative is, did he skip the washing out of the abdomen step without consequence? I'm inferring here, because it seems like that would be very difficult to do.
plot twist.. it's github doing it to github to get bigger companies to pay for github enterprise.
>Github maintained by someone with a troll username?

>Comments like this

>> IMPORTANT: release two major sanctioned UIs, one for autists, one with inbuilt support for the previous list so that plebs can't get confused with setting it up and autists don't complain about it getting in their way. de geso > I would suggest a "Advanced options" where the autists can rejoice with all kinds of options (and it doesn't frighten the normalfags, since it's not shown by default). Also, 2 UIs would be chaos to maintain.

The project originated from 4chan's /g/ (technology) board. It works differently from Reddit and HN, since there's no karma, and the comments are anonymous.

This caused it to develop a unique culture. On one hand, it enables people to express their real opinions without being afraid of getting downvoted by hivemind. On the other hand, it attracts trolls and causes a lot of rudeness and offensive behaviour.

I like the website, because you can see the true nature of people, and you don't feel the pressure to say what everyone else wants you to say.

>Talk about not needing to be an expert to use it, but then a "learn more" button sending people to github?

We were working on this for only about a month, and Tox is not even in the alpha stage yet. Once we get the GUI working properly, we will surely upload binaries to the website.
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I'd find the glass walls awkwarder. Feel like everyone's watching you while you're trying to focus on your conversation.
Not all software operates at scale. The backwards compatibility fostered by posix and wintel has meant many such applications have been silently doing their jobs for many years without (m)any changes.
I think they could be talking about github pages. Considering that's user uploaded content 4.5% seems pretty low.
Apparently there is no CAS by design, this allows groupcache to replicate hot keys on multiple hosts.