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I don't routinely visit their forums, so I had no way to know that. I don't even recognize that as the Nvidia logo. I assumed it was a default avatar.

So, no, it's not clearly an Nvidia employee. That's why I said

> I see no basis

We still don't know whether that's an official position or the speculation of a volunteer/low level employee.
I recommend an egg, small carrots and scallions (fresh, baby onions).
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I like this rule for one reason beyond those the author mentioned: it benefits the people you're asking for help, by sharing with them problems that have been pre-qualified as interesting.
DPR allegedly made over $80M from Silk Road; did any single SR vendor make more than that? When measured financially he's a pretty big fish.
Very similar to Rubber Duck Debugging - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
Did you submit a bug? You went to the trouble of verifying it, so I'm hoping so.
Appear.in - super simple in-browser screensharing and video calling
Seriously? Giving monopolies to cartels drives massive profits. Cartels maintain actual military troops. It's hard to believe they'd have any source of crime remotely as lucrative without artificial monopolies making huge margins. Sure, they would do kidnapping, extortion, and so on, but that's not anywhere nearly the amount of easy money.

If the government granted Monsanto a license for weed, cocaine and poppy, the cartels would be cleared out in a month.
Thank you for this, some of us take notice of 404-for-security responses like these and appreciate it.
Talk about literally "fake it till you make it"

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(regarding the presentation)

They had AT&T, the iPhone’s wireless carrier, bring in a portable cell tower, so they knew reception would be strong. Then, with Jobs’s approval, they preprogrammed the phone’s display to always show five bars of signal strength regardless of its true strength. The chances of the radio’s crashing during the few minutes that Jobs would use it to make a call were small, but the chances of its crashing at some point during the 90-minute presentation were high.
Exactly: Oracle will first try to write the code and if that does not work Oracle will write a check.
I've tried pretty much every Over-The-Counter sleep aid there is. Melatonin is indeed the most effective one I've tried, but my experience is that tolerance builds up rather quickly. I can use it every night for maybe 2-4 weeks, but after that, the amount required to achieve the same effects become absurdly high.

Also, one thing I like about Melatonin is the lucidity of the dreams I experience while sleeping with it. Colors, sensations, and my memory of the dream the next morning are very intense.

Currently I'm using Valerian root[0], which is all-natural, and I don't develop a noticeable tolerance.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_%28herb%29
Why do I feel like every time I read one of these articles where the person refers to what they're doing as, "hustling," that they're not somebody I would ever want to trust?
> That's not liberty. That's criminal behavior that stems from criminal thinking.

You seem to be using an idiosyncratic definition of either "liberty" or "criminal," because this seems to be tautological by the normal definitions. Something being criminal means your liberty to indulge in that thing has been taken away. So you could say this about any behavior — if you are at liberty to do it, it's not criminal, and if it's a crime, you are not at liberty to do it.
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So I get that it might be grammatically correct to use 'Data Live', but it sounds quite strange to me, I've never actually run across this before.
"That's not liberty, that's criminal behavior" is a no-true-scotsman argument.
This is also a more reasonable explanation for organized crime, seeing as how criminals cannot rely on the government to mediate criminal disputes.
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I agree with your point on commercial and retail banking. I also agree that if banks pivot in the direction of "technology-first", they will succeed in the future. I'm a bit skeptical (perhaps I'm biased in this regard since I work for one) that they will pivot in the near future though.
I remember somebody from Mozilla thinking out loud "we should integrate Tor in Firefox". Glad that didn't get done.
The main thing is that CAs are centralized proxies for trust combined with the revelations that confirm that the NSA directly targets such central entities. There was a lot of general uneasiness about the reliance on CAs before the Snowden revelations, and I think the fact that NSA documents show that it leans on such central entities confirms the wisdom of that unease.
How does the W3C force a codec in the standard? Apple and Microsoft had outright stated that if the standard said one MUST support Ogg/Theora/Vorbis they would simply chose to violate the standard.
This is a glorious release. I'm suspecting we have Schneier to thank for the full release of the slideshow that is mostly unredacted.
Yeah, the "generally" in my post was not decorative: there are certainly all kinds of special conditions where more than the rules applicable to federal employees in general apply, and security clearances certainly come with their own special rules.
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Is there such a thing as "natural right"? Isn't everything that can exist natural?

'Accountability' is sort of relative though: Nobody would disagree that a hit man should be held accountable for murder, but what about the random person who bought some recreational drugs? In this case , one could claim that anonymity protects the person from unjustified but lawful prosecution. What would be the reaction if if silk road had restricted itself to sale of recreational drugs only? Would it be just to shut it down?
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I might be wrong here but seed rounds are usually convertible debt, so no dilution.
> "I think most libertarians would agree there is no intrinsic right to anonymity."

As a libertarian, I disagree. The ability to converse, trade, and move about privately is intrinsically necessary to support other fundamental rights. In my view, anonymity (which is just a special case of privacy where a person chooses to reveal no personal information) as an intrinsic right is derived from this necessity.
> It is actually rather surprising that Tor gives them this much trouble.

I am not really convinced that what we have seen demonstrates conclusively that it does. There is the possibility that we are looking at parallel construction, or that these attacks are genuine but they are sitting on more dramatic capabilities for targets they think are worth it (perhaps because the Chinese continuing to trust and use Tor is a better situation for the NSA to be in than the Chinese doing everything the old fashioned way with microfilm and dead-drops).

The best way to go forward is to continue to assume that Tor does not present any significant difficulty to the NSA.
You certainly can't use praise as an excuse for not paying well. But it's cool to have a quick one-off "hey, great job hunting down that bug" from somebody.
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I agree, it's utter garbage. If only HN had some sort of a voting system where users could vote for the comments they like and the most liked comments would float to the top.
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Prediction: even in the future, the Kwisatz Haderach will not happen. Attempting to predict the other predictors, who are also trying to predict you, leads to some nasty, headachey recursion issues.
You're a hater if you don't at least attempt to explain your feeling. Why even post that? Did you think you were participating in a poll?
They definitely have major issues due to the sheer amount of bandwidth they need to utilize. I find their popular stream (or perhaps it's all streams during popular events) watchable (at any resolution, and it's definitely not my Internet connection) around half of the time.

I have seen Twitch representatives essentially blame this on the ISPs/backbones. They say they try to make deals to secure bandwidth across backbones, but they're often just at the mercy of the big guys. The most well-known issue was with Time Warner, which was apparently solved later according to a Twitch blog post.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1exa2k/hi_im_emmett_sh...

http://blog.twitch.tv/2013/06/time-warner-cable-works-with-t...
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I also work in tech for one of the big investment banks and agree with the author's thesis. Essentially, the banks are going to continue to replace their processes with technology solutions in all areas of the institution, and it's already happened in many parts.

It's just a matter of them moving slowly over time to make sure nothing breaks. Security, not negatively affecting customers, and not losing any data are the primary priorities. Those priorities are what keep adoption of technology slow.
Mostly because it's entirely pointless, technologically. Netflix isn't even a particularly good source of digital video for piracy; the free-love internet video sharers are going to rip from the higher-res, sooner-available, better-library, non-DRMed commercial pirate versions.

The only people likely to rip video from Netflix are casual copiers, digital information hoarders, and people with legitimate compatibility/access issues.

It's kind of baffling that anyone making money off this business would want to drive these paying customers into the arms of Bittorrent, YouTube, etc.
The W3C is an industrial consortium — its direction and what it produces is down to its membership, so obviously it will follow what corporations want, because that's what industrial consortia do.
Yeah, I've found that companies are usually bad at knowing when to buy back shares. I'd usually prefer them to just pay a dividend, but you are definitely correct that they [IBM] are much better with being shareholder friendly than a lot of tech companies.

I really like the framework proposed by the OP and added by you.

[Added] IBM
I think we're off topic. This is more about the war on drugs and how it's an epic fail and continues to be.

I'm a techno-libertarian and I hope that one day all drugs will be legal again, albeit highly regulated and taxed so we can all reap the benefits of that market instead of wasting trillions trying to suppress it.
Yes, claiming that personality and ability is more important than cleavage and a cute face is definitely sexist.
Even some of the Quadro cards (Q2000m in my personal experience) won't do more than 3 displays, and to do that requires changing bios settings which make games unplayable for the most part.
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Very true; that's also why I made sure to explicitly mention what my judgement was based on.
I've not talked to PG and thus don't have much to say, but I do have some fun things to run past you if you get in touch.

Email in my profile.
There is no offer high enough for many of them, when companies like wonga are asking.
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I don't know that it really is subtext here, but I suspect that Tor has many people communicating electronically where they would otherwise refuse to do so at all. In other words, "Normally I would refuse to talk about this on the internet and would meet you in the back of the bar instead, but I trust Tor so let's discuss this now."

It therefore puts communications that previously would not have been available to the NSA into the realm of things that the NSA can access.
Something like Qubes [1] and its concept of security domains might help here.

[1] http://qubes-os.org/trac
But spelling is usually not that important. It's not as if anyone is confused by the use of the incorrect word "phosphorous". While it's nice to have the correct spelling this is the kind of word that can fail spell check (because phosphorous can be correct in other contexts) it's not a serious typo.

It's not like silicone / silicon - often misused where people have to guess from context. (No one is getting a silicon breast implant; no one is making silicone chips.)

It's not like mistaking the units, 1.50 mg instead of 1.50 μg, or putting the decimal point in the wrong place, 1.50 μg instead of 15.0 μg.

Having said all that the Underground Grammarian makes a good point in "Trifles":

> Our educators, panting after professionalism, are little interested in being known for a picayune concern with trifles like spelling and punctuation. They would much rather make the world a better place. They have tried on the gowns of philosophers, psychologists, and priests. That's why, when they think of their "teaching goals," they say those things in the questionnaire. They see themselves as guides to emotional development, instigators of creative capacities, and molders of moral character. When they must attend to the factual content of some subject, they prefer to say that they impart that "general insight into the knowledge of a discipline." Niggling details, like spelling and punctuation, seem base by contrast with those noble goals. Our educators have established for us what may be a genuinely new kind of cultural institution--although it is something like the Austro-Hungarian Empire--that stubbornly avoids those undertakings in which it might succeed and passionately embraces those in which it must probably fail.

(It's a long piece and I didn't know which bit to use as a quote).
(http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/less-than-words-can-say...)
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The other responses to this would probably be agreeable to most "techno-libertarians", but I don't think they're quite correct as to how this natural right is derived.

They don't actually posit a natural right to anonymity specifically. The core idea is that the only moral use of force is self-defense. Therefore, it would be immoral for people to use force against you (in this system, laws are considered force because the government backs them with the threat of arrest) if you're not using force against them.

"Anonymous communication being a non-violent act, it is immoral to use force to suppress anonymous communication" ~= "the government has no right to shut down sites like Silk Road"
Interesting to see such an amount of work done but it fails to take into account that a single month of meditation is not nearly enough to even begin to properly feel the beneficial effects it can have.

In some areas, simply feeling might also still be a better choice than quantifying.
I agree, this is great. I run a small team and the author just summed up what I try to convey to everyone on the team. I just emailed it off to everyone.
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Online financial companies (paypal, stripe, square, kickstarter, etc.) are 0.1% moving bits around, 0.9% ensuring that the moving of the bits is robust, and the rest is a bunch of other stuff. Things like fraud detection and mitigation, relationships with other financial institutions, relationships with sovereign governments around the world, familiarity with relevant laws and regulations, customer service, and so forth.

I can set up a physical bank in 15 seconds. All I need is a shoebox (the vault), a notebook (the ledger), and a pen. And, indeed, in some circumstances this sort of bank is actually appropriate. But at the scale of worldwide commerce it is no more appropriate than a "banking" system that thinks that the software is the most important component.
Isn't the prevailing argument in the industry that vertical integration is necessary for great customer experience?

On Android, I sign in ONCE with my @gmail address and everything is instantly configured.

Another great example is Google Now. That feature is very deeply tied into the Android UI and possible because Google owns the services.

I'm not saying you can't get "good enough" without owning the services, but I think you can provide greater value if you do.
But the stream source would then have to be very active in hunting for unauthorised mirrors, because there would be nothing to find after the event has ended.
I think your predator/herd dichotomy creates a needless dichotomy, and also goes outside the bounds of its own analogy (predators and prey obviously don't agree in the state of nature, and in the presence of a fat herd the predators would multiply out of control until the herd thinned). I don't think it captures the relevant dynamics.

How I tend to view things is that humans are inherently pack animals. We are individually pretty weak and prone to being victimized, but organized together in a pack under leadership we can pretty much run the show. While, acting as a mob, we can always kill the leaders, the natural state of our existence is a very bloody anarchy so we avoid doing that unless absolutely necessary.

See, e.g., the French Revolution.
Of course they mean release the same hardware with Windows pre-installed.

Would be funny if Google developed something like UEFI if mobile opened up to multiple operating systems.
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Yes, I can explain: the source code is horrible, readme is horrible.

What it does: not clear.

How it's different: not clear.

Project name: bird?!

Modularity: Poor. one single JavaScript file with hundreds of lines :(

Duplicate effort, nothing new but more confuse.

I'm just tired of seeing shitty Promises libraries. And I'm a huge hater for those.

Here is a good one that I liked: https://github.com/puffnfresh/fantasy-promises
You are assuming that the FCC will reopen in anything like it's present capacity. That assumption may not be fully justified.
Would probably help prevent this from happening again: https://twitter.com/atmos/status/378259676141338624
Would it be possible for you to write a wrapper and use the Mongo API against another DB?
What kind of dosage are we talking about though? Like 1 or max. 2mg once every few weeks to get you over the hump of sleeping or 5mg every few days and occasionally a double dose?
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Do you have any references for that? I'm not pro or con either way (yet), I'm just gathering research. I'd love to know if there are any recorded cases of this and the doses involved.
Except for the largest banks, all the ones I've seen don't write much original software for their core business - they buy packages and integrate them. They then rely on the vendor for support.
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Yes, you do have a reason: the practice and preparation to be anonymous takes months/years. I don't care if you're Bruce Schneier and Richard Stallman rolled into one, you will slip up the first time you try. 100% guaranteed.

The standard for needing this kind of anonymity is anticipation of a use case. By the time the use case is at your door, it is too late and if you are unprepared your best bet is to bend over / run away (as the situation permits).
"sandipt", not "sandpit". I assume it's a first-name-last-initial style username of someone named Sandip.
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I'm curious as to what dosage you're taking. Several sources I've seen suggest the dosage they recommend on the package is too high for many of the typical brands out there. Do you experience these symptoms when taking low-dose melatonin (<= 0.5 mg)?
I went back to firefox and could not be happier.
Native Client also supports the execution of nexe modules directly in the browser. However, since nexes contain architecture-specific machine code, they are not allowed to be distributed on the open web—they can only be used as part of applications and extensions that are installed from the Chrome Web Store.
Mozilla wouldn't implement EME in the browser. It would come in the form of a plugin. It's absolutely incredible what a few uninformed blog posts will do to an otherwise very smart group of people.

I wrote pretty much the same thing in the comments on the blog post yesterday when people were freaking out about this then. EME is a plugin spec for implementing DRM, not something that would get baked into browsers.

Everyone put their logic pants on and stop freaking out for a second. This is might be a silly spec for implementing a stupid premise (DRM), but it's not the end of the open web.
I think you're sort of right. Banks don't think of themselves as tech companies. Their culture, priorities and upper managemet aren't those of a tech company.

But they are now tech businesses. Here's an example: Last year RBS made a mess of deploying some code[1]. It shut down their online and telephone banking services as well as stopping money transfers for a few days. Their ATM and branches were still giving out money but this pretty much shut the bank down because people rely on transfers to get paid and pay their bills. The backlog of transactions took days to work through and the whole thing cost the bank 100s of millions in compensation and damaged reputation.

Their branches remained open, but it didn't matter. What people need banks for now is the storage and processing of electronic money transfers. They are a SaaS business with a branch network bolted on. They just haven't realised it yet.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15606707, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_RBS_computer_system_prob...
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I guess people who use the "they would just do something else" argument for cartels and prohibition mafias would be the ones to say that if the iPhone business goes bust within a year, Apple would just do something else anyway!
I mean are people so boneheaded to think that a massive source of revenue can simply be switched over without costs? The real world operates _on the margin_ (economic term).
I sometimes use the computer as a stand-in, sort of like, "So what I want you to do, is to take this over there and..."
I have had very vivid dreams on melatonin, but never any nightmares. I'm wondering if you would have had the nightmare anyway, and melatonin just made it stand out more.
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I was going to ask the same question. Thanks.
Given that it says that the NSA and the GCHQ is trying to setup tor nodes.. is it possible for us to identify these nodes? Some sort of trust network perhaps?
> And they were ideologically motivated.

I may be reading you incorrectly, but I get the sense you consider what the US/West does somehow isn't ideologically motivated or that having any such motivations is inherently sinister? Of course they were, just like the US is ideologically motivated. Defending and furthering capitalist goals is no less ideologically motivated than defending and furthering communist goals.
I've learned a lot and wasted a lot of time doing this. Sometimes I think I'm almost there and 15 minutes turns into 2 days.
Should really make a packaged vm in vm failsecure tbb equivalent. Nothing is really works from a usability standpoint while giving reasonable protections against this kind of endpoint attack.
Of course, now that Nokia is assimilated, the Borg needs to move on to the next target.
Melatonin intensified my dreams but did not prompt nightmares; but then, I never have nightmares any way!

A friend who was prone to nightmares tried melatonin and it made her nightmares worse.

So perhaps it just induces worse nightmares in those prone to having them in the first place.
This might seem unrelated but I have a question to the crowd related to 3 monitor setup with Ubuntu.

Does anyone know how to use Intel + Nvidia on Ubuntu 12.04 (or later)? I was able to do this in the past with Windows but I can't get it working with Ubuntu.