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when rich pay taxes to support poor - socialism.
when poor pay taxes to support rich - feudalism.

The monster that is emerging its head worldwide is neo-feudalism, not socialism or capitalism. That's why political parties, or political ideologies lost sense and touch with reality some time ago. They try to explain the world that they have no tools to explain - feudal world.

feudalism was destroyed by capitalistic revolution (French revolution) which in turn was questioned (not destroyed) by socialist revolution called Bolshevik revolution. The cycle begins from the start again, next in turn in morphed feudalism. And this system is to be addressed by the values of the French Revolution AND Capitalistic Ideology. Socialist world of politics that we live in has no good answers to the threat of neo-feudalism. The answer to neo-feudalism is in capitalism.

Just saying. Would love to see a Revolution with people reovolting against their feudal masters (the 1%).
I guess I havent got past the general audience subreddits. Thanks for responding, I am going to find a couple this week to start reading. You've inspired me.
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FYI: in the sentence "Simplifying our onboarding quadrupaled our completion rate" (one of the images), "quadrupled" is misspelled.
Sadly we do have creationists in the UK, as this recent story demonstrates: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/oct/11/jewish-scho...
This reads more like "Apple can't read your messages as-is, but controls all the iMessage key-exchange infrastructure, and thus could sabotage it if it chose to".
Nasty stuff. Fortunately for me, this would set off the "why the heck are my fans running so loud right now" alarm that I have in my head (that honestly, I wish I could turn off sometimes ... curse you trustedinstaller.exe!!).
I don't think that the Economist is a reactionary right-wing publication (at least, not the editorial board), but I do think there are people on its staff who are sympathetic to the climate change denialists.

That said, I think the piece is puzzling, not that I'm sure it's a right-wing hatchet job on science.
cute.

/% cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 5
model : 1
model name : Pentium 60/66
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 1.301
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu pse tsc cx8 pge cmov
bogomips : 2.60
clflush size : 32
cache_alignment : 32
address sizes : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management:

Heh, 1.3 MHz on a Pentium 60.
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Maybe I'll give it another shot. Deep Space Nine, launched around the same timeframe, had a similarly weak start. In retrospect, I'm not sure I'd have gotten into it -- or forgiven it some truly dreadful filler episodes -- had I not been pre-sold on Trek by years of TNG. DS9 found its footing around the end of Season 2 and got really good around Season 4 and beyond.

Maybe I owe it to myself to give B5 another go at some point.
Direct link to reference 7, "Familial and sporadic fatal insomnia": http://a.pomf.se/7Uu7.pdf

From the paper, "Phenotypic variability is
another issue. In some patients, insomnia, one of the
cardinal symptoms, was not reported."

The other half of that sentence is obviously "... but Dementia and death still occurred."

Therefore, this research demonstrates that fatal familial insomnia results in Dementia and death, but with insomnia as a secondary effect. The insomnia is a symptom, not the cause.

I'm only trying to show how tricky it is to base an argument on scientific research. There are all sorts of corner cases and gotchas. In this case, the fact that insomnia is unrelated to the Dementia and death is buried on page 8 of a 10-page article, embedded in a gigantic paragraph. A rather important point for such little treatment by the article!
may be we willn't as we already did. Google "sleep deprivation experiment".
Woodworking magazines, woodworker supply shops, fine woodworking forums. Start digging around for what you're interested in and you'll find them.
I'd like to see it use BitcoinAverage.com for data I think, along with currency choices to display!

Good work though!
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I remember that This American Life did a piece on the Lancet studies when they came out. They focused on how the widespread reaction (in the West) to their numbers was one of stubborn disbelief, despite the fact that these were the most credible researchers in the field and that they used standard techniques.
You're right, I had them backwards. Thanks :)
"I can't even decipher whether it is pro-Oculus or against it"

Should an author always be expected to take sides?
Agreed. "Natural" doesn't mean that it's better. And, there are very few things we eat at this point that are natural anyways.

Shoes and clothing are not natural, but I don't see Mr. Taleb running around barefoot and naked.
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If a subpoena were used for this purpose I'd be quite surprised. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure only allows subpoenas to issue for the following:

1. Compel a witness to testify;

2. Compel someone to produce a document or "tangible thing";

3. Require someone to allow the inspection of premises.

Fed. R. Civ. Proc. Rule 45(a)(1)(A)(iii).

I can't imagine the Government would attempt to use subpoena power to force a business to take any other action, and if they tried to do so, as an attorney I would definitely appeal it (and probably prevail).

That's not to say there aren't other means at the Government's disposal, but subpoena is definitely not one of them.
That being said, I can totally understand why you might not want to add third party code to your site.

In that case, I think the best route is to take the html and add it to your site yourself. You can actually even host the js locally if you want. The call to our geoip server just returns json, so shouldn't be a threat: http://geoip.taskforce.is/

But if you want to host that part as well, it's open source too: https://github.com/tfrce/node-geoip-web
Don't do that, that's crazy. If you don't want your users running random binaries turn on applocker: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd723683(v=ws.10)...

If the "1002.exe" sample on Reddit is accurate the installer is unsigned, so forbidding unsigned binaries should be sufficient. The number of legitimate unsigned Windows binaries is small enough that you should be able to whitelist them by hand.
Not particularly. In this case it was more of a clarification of somebody else's words than my own opinion.

Public pressure works to an extent, but it's dangerous to use it, because if you can't get a sizable number of people to show up it signals weakness.
Well - to be fair, BBM over BES is as secure as it gets. The only people who can read those messages are sender and recipient, and the owner of the org keys. Neither cell provider nor blackberry can decrypt them.
hi - have you seen http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-t... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6566915 - this is exactly what you were worried about at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6487356 (i would have emailed you, but i can't find an email, so am replying here - given that economist article i may have underestimated the importance of the effect).
Or maybe it's the belief that humans have abused, and lost, their license to harvest pigs for meat. Take a look at the conditions pigs are raised on in commercial farms. Locking any animal in a cage for its whole life, where it cannot move or tend to itself, is inexcusable. It doesn't matter how intelligent it is, it would be just as impermissible if it were a bee trapped in a cage the size of its own self.
Is this what PG would describe as Ad Hominem?
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AFAIK, the Lavabit case is not legally decided yet:

http://www.volokh.com/2013/10/11/lavabit-challenges-contempt-order/

I imagine Apple would put up quite a strong legal fight if they were issued the same order, especially considering their public stance.

A NSL can force Apple to not disclose it, but they can't force them to publically lie about it. And lying about that would be ridiculously stupid.
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But airlines provided the security before 9/11 and failed at that job miserably.
I just though the exact opposite. When I read "Ransomware comes of age with ... anonymous payments." I just thought "Somebody is going for a surprise once he finds out how anonymous Bitcoin really is".

Anyway, what really makes me nervous is Microsoft's insistence of executing any data that a their programs touch.
I will still require 3 revisions to get it right.

Good summation of my efforts remodeling my house.
Wikipedia has a decent article on the glymphatic system, which clears waste products from the brain:

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

The brain and spinal cord have no lymphatic circulation, which handles waste removal for the rest of the body.
This is contrary to everything I've heard from women who tried a women's studies class. Apparently the patriarchy hypothesis features prominently.
No, it's a required security feature that goes back decades in some operating systems. You need to be able to trust the code that runs on your system, and to do that you want to ensure only admin can install things.

Of course, Windows has now partially solved that with UAC. Unfortunately you can never know if you can trust the software or not though. However this does stop malware from secretly running without your permission, since it would require a UAC prompt to run. Then we get into uneducated users.
I think you are right, I thought I had read about the feature somewhere but now I cannot find any mention of it.

Thank you for calling me out.
I suspect the reason is that outbound links drive traffic away from ads and internal links. The more visitors you have, the more profit you lose by adding outbound links... It's sad and I wish there was some way to fix the incentives.
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CastAR now also comes with VR which means that in VR mode you won't see anything but the game, exactly the same as on the Rift. In which case, the relevant question is whether CastAR VR is as good as the Rift's VR.
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I don't think I'm advocating that in any way, just at a minimum sanely peppering the code with markers. to keep with the quicksort example, a simple single line comment at the top would suffice:

/* standard quicksort on foo before we make our choice below */

That hardly seems like insanity to me.
> File headers?

No.

> Interfaces?

Implicit interfaces. It's kinda handy.

> Java-style OOP in my JS?

I'm not sure what qualifies as "Java-style" OOP. Is the stuff from ES7 also "Java-style"? How about the stuff from CS?

Well, you don't have to use classes. You can do everything with functions if you want.

> I think we're both just stating subjective opinions [...]

The difference is that I actually tried it.
That doesn't follow. The TSA may be deterring terrorists for airlines, or they may not.

But the fact that they don't protect other things, like malls, doesn't change that possibility. You are right terrorists can target softer targets, and have recently done just that. And it may be because because of heightened security at other places that they are starting to choose softer targets. If you want to kill a lot of people and get a lot of attention, go where lots of people are that will have a big media reaction and where the security sucks.
I haven't read the whole thing, but is this missing anyone who died in Iraq whose family lives elsewhere?
I think it's established that there are backdoors in BBM. E.g.,
http://www.zdnet.com/in/indias-blackberry-monitoring-system-...
But now CastAR's newly announced VR mode does indeed make them direct competitors.
I do something similar. I keep all my files on an external HD drive. Only thing on my pc are the programs I need.

My impending move to Tails OS is also timely considering this new virus. We just spent two days dealing with this after an exec launched one of these and encrypted a bunch of files on one of our servers. This, after two emails warning about it.
That's great work and I want more of it!
I'm glad to know it's official :-)
psst, the SI prefix for 10^6 is M
Oh, I guess I didn't pick up on that. Thanks for the clarification.
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Actually, the insomnia isn't the cause of death. FFI is just a bad name for the disease. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6568961
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How does it exchange the keys? If you don't verify fingerprints, there's always the possibility of a MITM.
> The article begins by touting a concern over a 1998 "priming" study. In the third paragraph, the article states that there have been nine (9!) subsequent studies that have failed to replicate the 1998 study's result. Is that not an example of the scientific self-correction working quite well?

Ideally, you'd like to see the original study being discredited before the point where 9 separate studies have exposed serious problems with it (and it's not clear that it's been discredited yet). Papers continue to pick up citations even after they've been formally retracted; that's also not a good example of self-correction working well even though the retraction process is supposed to be self-correction. Correction hasn't happened until people stop believing in problematic papers.
I understand that Valve has an investment in CastAR, so I'm not so sure about that.
Because this seems like as good of a place to ask this as any:

What is an acceptable amount of surveillance by the government towards citizens? Towards allies? Towards enemies? What would be changed, from where we are now, for this movement to consider itself "successful"?
Defending government by pointing out things they provide is fundamentally flawed - of course we all get utility from public goods, it's unavoidable.

The argument is not that the government doesn't provide utility, it's about recognising the possibility that there may be other, better ways to deliver the same or better. Ways that do not, for example, divide societies by political leaning; lead to absurdities like irrevocable entrenchment of power in one guy in a big white house; give rise to further insanity such as giving the power to write anti-corruption laws to those most at risk of being corrupted.

This is the best way to build roads? Really? This is the best way to do anything??
I was trying to figure out if this same type of thing would be possible to build into a car tire. I haven't been able to figure out braking yet?

Is there any work being done to simple regen braking systems that could easily be added to cars?
People on here are talking about attachments and being smart enough not to fall for sham downloads, but this isn't how most of ransomeware is spread to its victims. They use exploit packs and 0 days. Visiting a website that's been hijacked with an Iframe or a proxy that embeds an Iframe or any other data to the HTML that is returned could get you infected. There is no full proof way around this unfortunately.
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> A NSL can force Apple to not disclose it, but they can't force them to publically lie about it. And lying about that would be ridiculously stupid.

I'm not sure they'd be put in a position to lie. It would have to be a very direct, specific question to _require_ a lie. Otherwise, dodgy language would suffice.
It's not for no apparent reason, and it's hardly a good reason to hate Windows. Got any more amazing insights you'd like to share with the group?
For those in Boston interested in seeing the full story, I note that mental_floss is one of the digital magazines Boston Public Library now provides patrons through Zinio[1]. Unfortunately, I still see the November issue, but hopefully the December issue will show up soon.

[1] http://www.bpl.org/collections/zinio.htm
How does the key exchange happen between the two parties? With a party in the middle that has an already existing relationship with both parties, no? That is where you sit and exchange fake data with both endpoints.
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I think i believe this. A friend of mine is a virgin to late nights and all nighters. We were studying one night trying to cram for a test and communicating every so often on WhatsApp. At around 12AM, he told me he thought he was hallucinating. I laughed as he was only up for like 14 hours. He fell asleep shortly thereafter.
More info on reddit:

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I actually think it IS a function of age. For example, while you personally have more time in your 30s, it's not true for the majority. An average person in their 30s will have experienced more "life" than someone in their 20s, so the chances are higher that they will have added obligations and responsibilities.

Whether it's financial responsibilities or familial responsibilities, ignoring how life usually works out for the average person because your situation is different is a bit selfish. As much as kids in their 20s like to think they have their life planned out step by step, life has a way of throwing a wrench into those plans. I don't think its disingenuous at all to assume that people have less responsibilities in their 20s than in their 30s. A personal anecdote to the contrary doesn't really change that.
No mention of Hulu here or in the article? Hulu has done several of these cheap shows and none of them seem to have caught on in any meaningful way, whereas Netflix's obvious "swing-for-the-fences" attempts seem to have everyone constantly excited.
I would think their C&C server sets up a random Bitcoin wallet, and waits for a deposit, then allows the private key to be retrieved the next time CryptoLocker phones home.
> the original files would be written to location that is read only to the user and only accessible via the OS

A versioning filesystem looks much cleaner than a different location. Maybe we should start using those again. (Is there any candidate for ext5 already?)

And yes, partitioning the data permissions for the same user is a much needed change. Nobody got a solution for that yet, and there are lots of people trying. Apple, for example, is just giving up on iOS; Google has a subpar solution on Android that does not actually work on practice (the cyanomod people did improved it a bit) but is the closest we have from something viable.
IntelliJ is one of the only exceptions that come to mind. But, I would _LOVE_ if intelliJ used Qt instead of Java/Swing ...
> ...the abuse of privacy coming from spammers and marketers and the walled garden of whatever social network are all far more harmful..."

I'll take having a targeted ad for Sony cameras follow me from site to site over being a drone target.
I recently posted about emulating the NES with JavaScript.

http://blog.alexanderdickson.com/javascript-nes-emulator-par...

Part 2 will be posted when it's done. :)

If you want to get something done much quicker, have a go at emulating the Chip-8 VM.

I also have a post, but it's less hand-holding than the first.

http://blog.alexanderdickson.com/javascript-chip-8-emulator

Good luck!
We have no evidence to suggest invisible dragons are about to attack. But, that's no reason to avoid my multi-billion dollar anto dragon defense system now is there?

9/11 was a mild success but there is little reason to think it would work again simply because of reinforced cockpit doors.
Man, shit like this makes me feel dumb. How does this work?
With enterprise server (BES) presumably the company which owns the phone acts as the certificate authority. So your employer could pull off a MITM attack, but then they already own the hardware anyway.
This is entirely unrelated, but a cool story nonetheless (too bad the details elude me, I will make them up): There was a big archaeological site discovered in an island in Africa, and archaeologists needed to search a large area for findings. They asked locals to help, and paid them for every piece of ancient artifact they would find and bring back.

The locals started smashing large ancient vases and statues they found into small pieces to get paid more.
They confirmed this to me a few months ago https://twitter.com/ketralnis/status/364861501590339584

Me: surely there's a way to just say "don't ever email me ever for any reason, not even for future newsletters you make up"

Them: Unfortunately that would mean adding you to our Do Not Contact list, however if you have an active acct we are not able to add u
Seriously. Of all the uncompromising, highly-principled characters amidst the vast depth and breadth of all English literature... why would anyone ever compare the guy to some fictional Randroid character like "Howard Roark"?

What an awful, awful choice. What kind of stupid shit IS that?
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That's not a limitation of the new apps, it's one of the differentiating features between versions of Windows. The big reasons to buy Windows Professional are for the disk encryption and RDP server.
So have I, chief.

I've used heavy IDEs before with Java, and I much prefer a simpler text editor like Vim or Sublime. I tried out TS a while back. All the examples I've seen were overweight, much like classical enterprise Java. Too much cruft.

Anyway, enjoy TS.
When I read the headline my first thought was that NSA must have cracked tor and the this was just a cover story they put out, but seeing as it was the owner the site himself shuttering the market before he gets caught for what he himself admits was a amateur mistake I am not so worried as I was.
Thanks for trying that out the jQuery example. They look to be making the compiler (or the playground site) more permissive lately. This didn't work in May when I last tried it out.

I've used the typescript compiler on a randomly-chosen JS library (typeface.js http://typeface.neocracy.org/typeface-0.15.js ) and it had dozens of compiler errors for me to fix before it would compile. The playground is now accepting them for some odd reason. This seems to be recent behavior or perhaps the node.js version of the compiler behaves differently?
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