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Depressingly, the document talks about plans to make Tor less reliable to dissuade people from using it:

> Could we set up a lot of really slow Tor nodes ... to degrade the quality of the network?
> Given CNE access to a web server make it painful for Tor users?

At least the document seems to confirm that GCHQ has a really, really hard time de-anonymising Tor users.
Exactly. There is a huge difference in the following two statements:

1. "I hear you about X but we are doing Y anyway."

2. "I hear you about X and understand you viewpoint, however we need to go with Y because..."

I'm okay with #2. #1 will drive me away. And it should. It's disrespectful and basically tells the other person that you have no regard for their opinion and that you only ask to satisfy a rule or expectation. If you are aren't going to have a discussion about why Y is the solution and were going to do it regardless of what anyone else said, then why bother even asking?
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It's a powerpoint, doubtless put together by a middle-manager who thought some clipart would spice things up. Internal presentations at pretty much every company I've worked for have been just as tacky.
What you want is a library that is fast (like the one mentioned), and is easy to debug. Most promises libraries don't implement a good stack trace. The one submitted for this article has what looks like a pretty amazing stack tracer, and is quite fast. If it truly follows the Promises A+ spec (which I'm sure it does), it's probably your best bet.
I use it in production. You will always have 404's and this is what I feel to be a meaningful 404.
Yeah, quite a few.
I have been using simple Node HTTP server to fulfill my small need[http://stackoverflow.com/a/13635318]. And of course, Node's event-driven architecture will help Harp. But, I think Nginx or Apache is quite featured web server you are trying to replace.
Too little data; but yes, in general multiple pseudonyms can be linked based on language patterns if they have written a sufficient amount.
That's an argument against capitalism, not pornography.

I know several people in the sex industry, including some who are professional porn models. None of them feel that they're being exploited -- they do this work because they enjoy it.

I am certain that there are people who are forced into this work who don't want to be there, but it's far from everyone.
Try Siberian bog swamps releasing an amount of methane with effects equal to the US yearly emissions.
There was no cracked software on this device at all. And also, there were absolutely NO ads, until I installed a few apps that introduced some AdMob ads. But I knew about them. You know, informed consent and all of that.

Although I did run a packet sniffer on my router to see if there was Chinese server contact, and there was. That was because the GPS config had NTP servers polling from China. I kind of expect that for a device sold to the Chinese, so it didn't exactly set off buzzers in my head.

Once I changed that, no more talkey to China. I guess there could be a few packets of UDP per week that I'd not catch, or cell-only data transmit. But tell me: how's that any worse than say Motorola?
Nightmares and sleep paralysis! Wheee!
Advil works better as a sleep aid for me.
Thank goodness for that! If there was, this development would be quite concerning.
This is a great demo. However I wonder, with one flywheel, they should only be able to rotate the individual robots along a single plane? ( And I am somewhat curious, what collective motion of more than one robot looks like. )
The issue here is that it is a natural chemical and with that nobody can patent it. The cost for drug approval (in many countries) is high and this is the crux. No company is going to finance the approval process as they have no way to control there financial return upon that investment as they can not patent the drug they are getting approval upon. So everybody else can just ride there investment and that is the case now in that nobody has any incentive to put it thru the costly FDA approval. Same can be seen for Omega-3 and other naturaly occuring benificial products.

This also means that people with depression or sleep disorders can not be prescribed these products as they are not FDA approved and insurance will not pay for it either. This forces people into patented phara drugs that may or may not be better for them and in all cases have more side effects (upto including death being common disclaimer on the long list).

Same issue in the UK and more so in that melatonin is not allowed to be sold. Sure you can get it on the internet, but from some contries but as there are no standards it is hard to tell. Is it syntheticly made or the type extracetd from animal and with that the whole area of concern starts to rise.

If only some benificial billionair would fund FDA tests for approval for this and other unpatentable naturaly occuring medicines. Certainly be positive for everybody.
> The real risk to them is that a vastly improved fork of MongoDB is built up by contributors who don't license over their contributions to MongoDB Inc., preventing their incorporation into commercial licensed versions...

aka MariaDB :)
I like the idea, but I don't understand the problem they're trying to solve. For example I have an app using node as the backend behind nginx and ember as the front end.

Right now I'm using grunt to precompile my app to plan old HTML / JS /CSS but there are modules for node that can also compile and cache for me, Either way, I don't have to mess with something that works (NGINX)
Scaled down to 1/1000th of it's current size and that would be an interesting way to perform complex operations, like brain surgery. No more cutting in a straight line, instead you can move around objects. Though by that time we'd probably have little self-propelled nano-bots doing this work more efficiently.

Dynamic stabilization would be interesting. This could "fill" in an area, say the sudden damage to a building, perhaps even a space station or spaceship.

Movement could be another feature. This could serve as wheels to move over complex terrain (up mountains, through the bottom of the ocean). They could go from fins, to wheels, to little hands or claws, etc...
The war on drugs is certainly dangerous. Making anything illegal makes it dangerous because it invites both the violence of the state, plus the violence that occurs in the absence of the state. The question is whether the danger the war on drugs has created is worse that the danger of those drugs being legal. Fortunatly, we have a very nice test bed here in the United States where we did make a dangerous drug illegal and then legalized it again. It would be interesting to run those numbers...
This is absolutely false. The entire academic world says otherwise with a fantastically high margin of confidence.
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I wonder whether that works at all for web sites that have essentially global reach. Children from the US are unlikely to appear in Germany all of a sudden, I guess. (Incidentally, the example page for »Other countries« was in Greek which I cannot even read).
It will make it more miserable, because EME is not a standard DRM, it's a plug-in interface for launching browser-specific/vendor-specific DRM plug-ins. DRM plug-ins are allowed to do whatever they want, and proponents at W3C want to completely bypass the browser and have DRM all the way from TPM to HDCP.

Makers of Flash and Silverlight were a 3rd party in the DRM battle. They had to worry about their plugins' marketshare and could not implement too user-hostile DRM. They had to balance pleasing media corporations and users.

Now there won't be anything stopping MPAA's CEOs wet dreams running in your OS's kernel. Media corps have Netflix and Google (Play Store) in their pockets and can force them to ship all kinds of nastiness — under W3C's brand name.
Yea, but to honest the Silk Road hitman business is probably like 10,000x smaller than the drug business - maybe more.
Amen to that. Mind if I do a J?
Postgres 9.2 gives you the ability to index and query JSON, but you still can't atomically update portions of the JSON which is very limiting.
I hate to be That Guy, but I think this demands a bit more rigor. $1.2B is certainly a big number, but let's unpack what it means. Do you think it's impossible that MongoDB gets to $100M of net income? For a company that sells to the enterprise and whose product has significant adoption, that definitely doesn't sound implausible to me.

Given their financials and growth figures, how would you value MongoDB?
Stupid question and a stupid argument. Buying /selling drugs is illegal, so is buying /selling fake docs etc so why would anyone expect FBI to let such a service operate? Especially when sales numbers reach $1+ Billion and when the owner gives Forbes interviews saying FBI can't catch him?

Let's get back to basics: FBI is supposed to enforce the laws. They do have some leeway in prioritizing, but a $1.2 Billion market is way too big not to attract enforcement.

Now about the war on drugs...
If the information that would need to be aggregated doesn't exist, then the "info aggregation problem" as you've defined it doesn't exist either, so it's meaningless to ask whether it gets "better".

As for the problem of imposing policies on everyone, doing it by a mechanical procedure based on a betting market actually does strike me as worse than doing it the way we do it now, for a couple of reasons. But I'll respond further to that in the other subthread where we are having that discussion.
No, a similar statement cannot be made because there's a difference between hunting Chimeras and doing research when there's profit to be made (even when gambling with high-risk research). That's the litmus test. If there's a plausible expectation for profit, or even tax-funded / subsidized applications, then that means that goal is not entirely unrealistic in our technological era. Otherwise, try again next century.
The appearance of multiple local effects is a clear indicator or a global trned.
I saw a small data center (4 racks) get from 18C to 55C in one hour when the chillers failed. And that was the air temperature, not the server temperature. In theory you can just open the doors, but then you cannot control the humidity.
Really good class notes these. But I see they're named 00Introduction.pdf, 01GettingStarted.pdf and so on. Doesn't the author know that all Lua indexes start at 1? :)
"Terrorist" -- as everyone knew it would become -- is now shorthand for anyone undesirable or anyone targeted for any reason.
Well. I'm not convinced it did, myself.

If prohibition didn't happen 1920s for the americans, would Al Capone never of being born?

Really these prohibition laws give lowlifes something to fight over, and the fightings dangerous, but who says they wouldn't be fighting anyway?

Does it make life more dangerous. Maybe not.

Does it make it more dangerous for me? Maybe.

edit: Ouch. Looking forward to that rebuttal.
> I don't know about you guys, but all my Tor activities are performed in my Halloween costume!

I don't always hack, but when I do, I wear a balaclava

http://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/all-computer-hackers-wear...
I'd also strongly recommend the Trader Joe's brand. I've been using melatonin for a couple of years and haven't found anything that has been as consistently effective.
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How do we know this wasn't just a trick to make people think tor is safe and keep using it?
This could be countered by setting up a lot of fast nodes. Stealthier malicious nodes that selectively drop or tar-pit traffic though would be harder to fight...
The only thing they ever did wrong in firefox was removing <blink>. It was in the Book of Mozilla; you can't contradict that.
>Extra-legal violence is often a part of black markets.

Curious turn of phrase. Extra-legal violence meaning "violence outside of the government," which implies that there is intra-legal violence, "violence within the government," which may be referring to how the government coerces its citizens to not transact drugs, by means of violence (that is, the government will arrest/hurt you if you do not comply), and that somehow that is more appropriate or noble.

Also it may be somewhat jokingly implying that the government's violence is "extra legal," meaning "more appropriate with respect to law." I wonder if the author had this is mind when they wrote the article. I don't mean to start a huge libertarian rant about government violence/coercion, only to point out that the sentence could have a clever hidden meaning.
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How would the robot be able to maintain coherence at such a small size?
I used to think like you. But it is not that simple. Of course, financial compensation is the best way to reward someone for being good. But you are missing the point made by GP. The idea that people acknowledge your value to a team is important. It encourages you to do a good job and be even better.

I get paid a lot more as a consultant right now that I made as a fulltime employee but there is something missing in my current gig. It is the appreciation (not patronizing) that me being there makes a difference.
GovindKabra: Thanks for your feedback. Recently my co-founder asked me to build a google map for a feature showing all thumbs up it received displayed by location. Rather than building this feature, I kicked it on our page.

We also have javaScript API's which can be used to show an overlay.
Here is an example of it being used after a customer does a search: "It asks customers, do you like the search results? and can we improve our search feature?"

I have one beta customer showing overlay after 90 seconds have passed on the "buy-now" page and another beta customer showing overlay when anything is clicked besides the "buy" button.

I hope these examples show how beta customers are using FeatureKicker to solicit feedback.
At the end they debate whether killing Tor would be bad, since if they could exploit it they'd have all the "bad guys" in one place.
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As one with kids that love Phineas and Ferb: Thank you.
Of course, if they actually have a really easy time de-anonymizing users, they might "leak" a document like this to encourage people to keep using it.

Conspiracy theories are fun!
The spec actually uses a 404 specifically for this purpose: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
If anything this just encourages me to keep my non-exit relay up as much as possible.
Doesn't look like a very ethical/professional presentation. But then again, who said everyone's professional in all agencies. Its a conjecture to think our laws are systematically enforced by ethical folks.
First, it's not a "limited number of hand-selected studies." The Brzezinski meta-study ( http://www.gwern.net/docs/melatonin/2005-brzezinski.pdf ) alone covered 17 studies and 284 participants. There's even a clear, well-documented causal mechanism, which can't be said for most of the supplement industry.

Even if it were a limited number of studies, gwern's not going for "absolute confidence". (Indeed, requiring "absolute confidence" before attempting a thing is irrational by the following sentence.) Irrational here means doing something with expected value less than zero. If you're a person living in an industrialized society with ready access to electrical lighting -- the possible gains are too large to be balanced out by the time wasted trying it. That's what gwern's saying.
Right. Just requiring the use of tor prevented 95% of the population from using SR.
They actually saw it as their job to make the experience of anyone using Tor difficult.

Isn't that kind of like the police deciding to make the roads full of potholes because that would make it more difficult for bank robbers to get away in a car.

Then again, considering the quality of the roads these days, maybe they are way ahead of me on that.
In 9 months and with no budget, we made a service agnostic music player
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There are so many music services these days and not a single one fits all of our needs.

Soundcloud had a lot of the local/indy/mashup music, then we had our local collections, and also Spotify Accounts - plus Grooveshark was so useful - we decided to use the APIs and create a music player that could tap into all of these services at once. You can make playlists out of songs from different services also.

We tried to make the app kind of like a shoutout to the old Winamp with a visualizer and equalizer.

It is only available for iPad but we would like to bring it to more platforms if there is a demand.

Anyway we have a website here: http://amplifindapp.com/#&panel1-1

And our iTunes link is here:
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We really think it is a useful app, we hope you like it!

P.s. We would like to play with a freemium pricing model but we just wanted to get it out in the store for now. It took so long to get right and we just wanted to launch the damn thing!
Bingo :)
Although they are promising some advancement so I'll see.
This is how I do it as well. I use 300 microgram time released at sunset. Then a 1000 microgram instant release before bed. The 1000 microgram is not needed for me to get good sleep, but it puts my dosage at where body temp drops can be seen.
I look at it this way, we basically have two types of web servers, static and full-stack web frameworks. What if all you want is a static web server but you need a way for your files to share a common layout? If you don't have any server side compilation a full-stack framework is overkill. We could use a static site generator such as Jekyll and then put behind a static web server but now we have ugly urls, no 404 pages, and way more dependencies than needed.

The simple fact is a static web site on its own is not good enough but its 95% there. Using a full-stack framework is overkill, and needing an Static Site Generator just seems counter productive when considering simplicity is one of the biggest upsides to shipping static assets.

There is no good reason for static web servers to do a little extra for you like smarter redirects, clean urls, layouts/partials. This makes sense to me considering the direction we are headed.
Can you please explain what you meant ?

Sure, and note that my background has included secure systems design work.

Secure systems operate under a couple of constraints. It is as you posit, impossible to make a 'completely secure' system, just as it is impossible to make a 'completely safe' airplane (and the 'impossible' here means that such a system continues to be usable or commercially viable). But generally if you can make a 'secure enough' or 'safe enough' system, then you can still make a business out of it.

Using a fairly simple example, general residences in the US are not secured against experienced thieves, but in general experienced thieves aren't trying to steal things out of random houses, they go for specific houses. So the system "works" because you aren't getting broken into every day. And if the house next door is burglarized your house is no less secure than it was the day before.

But in a cloud system the thieves get tremendous economy of scale, rather than breaking into one house they can break into every house in the city. In that way even if you don't have 'much' if you have anything they can steal it.

Cloud computing both ties together high value and low value targets on the same system, and makes the total return of compromising the system higher in proportion to the number of users of that system. That is a real challenge because now everyone needs really really good locks on their houses, the costs go up and the usefulness goes down.
It's not so much to let you know that you're good, but more to let you know that you're recognised as being good. Feeling unappreciated can and often does destroy morale and motivation.
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valuation of a social network = <# of users> * <$ value/user>

valuation of infrastructure = <# of deployments> * <margin/deployment>

The problem is that we cannot get an accurate estimate for the total value of a social network. We can usually get an accurate count of the number of users, and can even decently predict the number of potential users. However, when it comes to the value per user we have no idea what that number is because the avenues of monitization are so murky. Can instagram get just as much money per user as facebook? How about compared to Flickr users? How about SnapChat? Can we get a reasonable predict which social networks are fads and which are here to stay? To me, the value of a social network is much too foggy to reasonably predict.

The valuation of an infrastructure company is much easier to predict - it's a matter of price setting. If you are charging $100k for a product, and every fortune 500 company needs your product at that price, you can expect to be worth about $500M.
It is a dogfood eating cat. :-)
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Interesting idea. Just goes to show I don't know nearly as much Javascript as I should considering I'm stuck on level 3.
Today's full Tor coverage by the Guardian is:
(Greenwald's article) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/nsa-gchq-attack...
(Schneier's article) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/tor-attacks-nsa...
(Leaked doc #1) http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/tor...
(Leaked doc #2)http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/ego...
(Leaked doc #3) http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/tor...
I'd say this is a very negative comment because you are purely criticising without proposing where the community is actually going in your point of view. It might be more constructive to give your opinion on where containers should go if not Docker.
I agree with you that this has been a pivot by dotCloud, but my hat goes off to them for it and I totally respect them as a startup for doing it!
Make that 99.5%.
Most fascinating part - using DoubleClick ad cookies to trace Tor users.
I'm pretty sure Tor does smart peer profiling/selection to optimize for throughput. Lots of people run Tor relays on their silly little home DSLs and Tor still works.
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You're not alone in this interest - we hear that as a pain point a lot. If you're really interested in this, keep an eye on this page:

https://foundationdb.com/layers

:)
Dear "That Guy", spot on.
Wait, so you're saying that despite the fact that:
- We have accurate measurements of ocean Ph and CO2 concentrations for the past 50 years
- We have a clear understanding of the emissions of CO2 from manmade sources and a record that goes back since the beginning of the industrial age
- We understand the effects of acidification on a large variety of ocean species
- We see a trend of ocean absorbtion of CO2 absolutely consistent with out knowledge of atmospheric chemistry

That means that it's BS?

If you had some evidence to back up the fact as to why a set of multiple thousands of studies in oceanography are flawed when they point out to a singular trend, with a margin of confidence greater than most of the so-called scientific facts that are out there, I wouldn't think what you write is plain denialism.
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