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I'm a perfect illustration with HoC. I dropped off Netflix Watch Instantly when they split it off as a separate item. I'd vaguely mulled hopping back on--Amazon on-demand really didn't have enough selection--but I wasn't a huge on-demand user so I never quite pulled the trigger. HoC got me to pull the trigger. And I'm still not a particularly heavy on-demand user but I'm not about to stress over whether I'm getting my money's worth now that I'm back on the service.
I think we're well passed giving them ideas; there's a FPS mission designed around the concept of the attack:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_surrounding_Call_...
Kickasstorrents is the best atm in my opinion. TPB is good but their legal issues make them unreliable technically and I prefer non-magnet links for use with rtorrent.
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While I'd like to think I'm sophisticated enough about security to avoid this, it makes me concerned about the vast majority of people (e.g. my parents, my girlfriend) that are clueless about such dangers.

Are there any recommendations of a simple way to at least enable automated backups of local documents to the cloud on a windows box?
I live[d] in Sweden. There has been lots of immigration. You can describe the present situation like that the Social democrat party is actively courting the religious muslim vote and pushing homophobia and anti semitism under the carpet. The press isn't so interested in looking at this, either.

This has been coming slowly for 5-10 years. It wouldn't surprise me if tolerance for denial of evolution of humans comes in a few more years.
You can unsubscribe from all LinkedIn email, but you'll still get email for any new category they invent later. So I keep having to do this every few months. For example: "endorsements" became a thing and suddenly I had to turn that pointless spam off too.

I expect they'll invent a new product which involves opting everyone in.
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FWIW, I can build an app in html5/javascript for every major desktop and mobile platform that runs "natively" on the host OS.
I'd be really interested to see what you're doing that uses >300k lines of javascript all at once.
And where's the incentive for private corporations to build infrastructure for the public? Government isn't the answer to everything, but neither is the free market.
That's funny. I found out that I ignore emails from most websites, except those from LinkedIn. I don't know why, but I click on all of them (and usually follow the link). No other website is able to bring me back with emails.

Maybe it's because I never go on LinkedIn otherwise. Maybe it's because all the emails they send me are paired with an action, maybe it's just an habit I gained. In any case, they work for me.
Actually, I don't think we have to go down that rabbit hole. The current journal system is built such that a published paper is essentially a claim that this result is reproducible and statistically significant in some sense. A philosopher can and should then go and question what exactly that means in practice, whether it's the best standard, etc etc, but in the meantime, it is also acceptable to take the system's claims and observe that they do not match the reality of the journal system on its own terms, without any particular need to dig into philosophy.

In fact, I'm personally not convinced it's the best standard, but, nevertheless, it is a good start to hold journal papers to the standards they proclaim.

Worry about what the best theory is when they show some ability to implement any theory!
Move to a bayesian approach for experiment design?
yup. But the fact they're using bitcoin shows a clever way for ransomware to collect payment with virtually zero-risk; since it's not possible(that I know of) to really trace exactly who, in real life, got those bitcoins. Which means, ransomware might make a strong comeback since the risk is now basically zero, this program isn't that difficult to write and there's real money to be made. Even if you only charged 50 USD, this idea would make hundreds, if not thousands, a month. Change the binary every once in awhile so its signature doesn't match popular anti-virus databases and you got free money coming in for... well ...forever[1]

1. Educating users to stop running random programs in zip files attached to emails, is apparently impossible. Maybe email-clients should scan the contents of any zipfile it receives and if it finds any kind of executable, put up all kinds of warning dialogs saying "You really don't want to run this. There's no reason to get a program in zipped email attachment nowadays. Please go consult your IT-admin or somebody who knows about computers for a 2nd-opinion"
I would go for these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Craft
Indeed. I'm sorry that you're having a hard time.
> I'd assume given the rigorous treatment I've seen so far in all his posts that he probably did this test.

No. See the final section: http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road#voi-ehrlich-test If I had been able to afford more tabs, I probably would've used one (it wouldn't've confirmed the dosage or anything, but it would at least reassure me I wasn't getting an RC), but I only had 2 tabs. I needed 1 for the microdoses, and 1 to trip with, so... Between tripping and testing, it was an easy choice.
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telnet matrixreturns.dyndns.org 6401

It's running on an Apple IIe, so only one user at a time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfJtD5OeR_k
It actually made my skin crawl reading about it. Never had that reaction to such a story before. Interesting...

Edit: It's the BTC aspect that's worrisome. Ransomeware is nothing new -- AIDS Information Trojan did it in 1989, but the (potentially) safe method of payments in crypto currency seem to be a new factor that will attract much more innovation in these type of attacks.
Yes. You can find the SR forum thread for the Avengers archived at http://www.gwern.net/docs/sr/2013-10-15-lsdavengers.maff
Yes, but that alone is important. A lot more difficult to shut down.
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I love Heroku but its too expensive. Are there any cheaper alternatives? (I mostly use Python/Flask/Redis)
"real investors" do have an option of going to dark pools :)
Under what regulatory regime is a corporation able to rape the environment and siphon off the money? Who says that corporations as they exist today should exist in libertarian-land? Perhaps you'd have only LLCs where the limitation of liability is actually rather small and as such management would take an active role in ensuring that they weren't personally liable for the rapacious behavior that some corporations exhibit today.

Up until Glass-Steagall was repealed Goldman-Sachs was a relatively well run bank that was entirely privately owned and all the partners there made sure people weren't doing crazy subprime stuff because it would negatively impact the bottom line over the next decade or more.

Nassim Taleb talks about "skin in the game" as a requisite for moral decision making. Perhaps libertarians would say that you can't perform in a managerial role at a company without having some meaningful skin in the game. Would people find a way to dodge that? Sure. But companies who did dodge it would tend to be short-term greedy, not long-term greedy and as a result they would tend to go bankrupt faster thus ridding us of the unpleasantness of their existence.
My comment was a bit snippy. Not intended to be rude (but perhaps pointed).

I suppose I get concerned when I see forces applying moral judgment to investment techniques and timescales (as distinct from companies actions, where I think it's easier to judge - e.g. not wanting to invest in tobacco, for example).

The long term investor is not necessarily more moral than the short term investor, though he may be. But part of the long-term investor's confidence in his investment emerges from the fact that he can exit his investment if he judges that long term trends make it less valuable to hold it.

That liquidity is, in large part, created by the churn of short-term speculators operating in the zero-sum game of the short term. Spare no tears for the short term-speculators - they operate in a tough game, and the ones who actually thrive and stay around for the long haul do provide a valuable service - reduced trading costs, narrowed bid-ask spreads, and faster order execution as a commodity.

Similarly, products such as ETFs (held by millions of small investors and 401(k) accounts) owe their existence to the ability to rapidly rebalance portfolios in response to changing prices of the underlying products that the ETFs are trying to replicate. Prohibiting rapid trading eliminates the possibility of the various affordable products that track indexes, commodities, sectors, and so forth.
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I like what they do with their distro.

I won't use it on desktop (I'm on gentoo for more than a decade and am very happy with it), but I use it on laptop and tried its mobile version on my nexus7 (ubuntu touch, but that's basically 13.10). It's only when I played with it on tablet that I understood what unity is about.

You compare it to macosx, and I agree, here : it's some kind of responsive interface, allowing to have the same feeling on a desktop, a laptop and a mobile. That's certainly not our usual linux environment, but I'm glad they're trying to innovate, here.

I can't wait to see what will come out of that when it's finished, because even the browser was quite unusable when I tried ubuntu touch (it keeps on clicking 25/50px above were I was tapping).

The qt5 development environment looks promising to write apps, too. Not only that will be nice to write mobile apps, but even to write desktop small apps and widgets. Each time I tried to write some kde javascript plasma widget, it was painful by lack of documentation and lack of debug features. Ubuntu sdk looks great, so far (just sad it's just for ubuntu).
FTA:

> We are still using MRI 2.0.0-p195 on Heroku and haven’t switched to either JRuby or Rubinius. Although there is a lot performance we could gain from this switch we are happy with the performance we have and it would make our development more complicated.

From the Rubinius 2.0 release post[1]:

> Evan created Puma to meet the need for a fast web server that would promote the Rubinius parallel thread support. Puma also works well on MRI and JRuby. It provides Ruby applications excellent performance and multi-core scaling, especially when there's no global interpreter lock.

I'm very interested to see how much performance they would gain by switching to Rubinius, and why they say it would complicate their development.

[1] http://rubini.us/2013/10/04/rubinius-2-0-released/
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um, they collect tolls?
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>For example, a subject may report a silly thought as a creative one instead of as a stupid one.

You would have to assume that I was subconsciously also lying in the predictions, to hide my foreknowledge, and how would I be able to precisely affect the sleep or Mnemosyne scores?

> Also, given that the period of the experiment is exactly a week, I also would control for 'LSD is the first thing exactly as often as the test"

? 3-day blocks imply a 6-day cycle, not 'exactly a week'. And I'm not sure what you mean by 'control' either.
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Interesting theory, let's see how it plays out in the marketplace. If typed languages are indeed more productive we should see them start to win out in, say NPM, right? Today the overwhelming majority of NPM modules are JavaScript, but if the same modules can be written more productively in TypeScript or Dart or another typed alternative, you should start to see those modules win out. Fewer bugs, more able to concentrate on features.
I've gotten a few copies of this, all to an email address that was only ever given out to AT&T, and is not guessable.
> Perhaps you'd have only LLCs where the limitation of liability is actually rather small and as such management would take an active role in ensuring that they weren't personally liable for the rapacious behavior that some corporations exhibit today.

This highlights the bizarre statist-libertarian cognitive dissonance where they hate on government but then argue that lawyers and lawsuits are the solution to everything.
> He may have gotten far less LSD than he believes.

Or more. In the absence of any reason to believe one direction, the expectation of the shift is zero...
Does this sound like you?

You pick a project that sounds fun to work on and solve. After two months of working on it, you got "close enough" that in your brain you'd already done the work and solved the problem. You don't finish it because "implementation" is just rote, boring stuff at this point. You enjoyed the problem solving aspect and, now that you need to create documentation or finalize/polish your work, it's boring and tedious.

If that sounds like you, I can empathize - that was me for a decade. It turned out, in the end, that I wasn't picking interesting enough projects - I was choosing projects that could have been resolved in two months + one month of boring work.

Solution: quit screwing around on pansy projects and do something big.
Very, very awesome. Kudos!
"Download accelerators" like installerex.com or "anonymous vpn" (they advertise getprivate.net at the moment) which installs adware. Also, Samsung advertises on TPB ( https://torrentfreak.com/samsung-exposed-as-top-advertiser-o... ). Adware can generate high revenue even on websites like TPB since the adware wont appear on TPB but replace a legitimate sites ad banner. The industry has gotten a little harder mind you, since adsense recently stopped adware software from using adsense's "custom search" ad.
I think that you could use Box for this pretty effectively. With their $15/month business plan, you get 1TB of storage and can apparently set any directory as a "workspace", which presumably includes the home directory. For most users, that would be more sufficient to keep everything backed up and the syncing process is supposed to be the same kind of transparent deal as Dropbox (which would also be a good solution, except that you can't set an arbitrary directory as your Dropbox folder).
From your link:

> The only thing that will be different is that we will have MANY different roads that will compete with each other.

LOL
With a proper Makefile,

$ cd project
$ inotifywait -m -e modify,close_write,move,move_self,create,delete,delete_self -r . | while read; do make; done

Every time any source is modified, renamed, created, etc, that will run 'make', rebuilding whatever output artifacts you need.

As long as you're careful about always re-fetching artifacts (like css files built from whatever css-sugar-y thing is hot this week) somehow, that should set you up nicely, and it generalizes to all kinds of workflows.
Yeah! Especially X - that's a pretty amazing X implementation!
This may as well be magic as far as I'm concerned. When I first saw http://bellard.org/jslinux/ I just about shat myself. This is definitely another level of awesome. Well done.
> If the mystical trip is what one is shooting for 10ug doses from blotter paper purchased from silk road in one's living room is just going to give you indigestion at best.

Most people do not claim even indigestion from microdosing. And I agree that one would not expect 10mcg to do anything, which is why I discussed it in the terms of trips and bought 2 tabs rather than just 1.

> If the author is serious about exploring this experience, I recommend to the author to step outside of his comfort zone and read as much as he can about what the psycohnauts (e.g. shulgin, mckenna, RAW, leary, watts, huxley, lilly) say (w.r.t. dosages, set, setting, _tools not toys!!!_, etc.) and then experiment with larger doses

What makes you think I have not read a substantial amount of material from those authors?
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LOL, great counter analogy. Well, let's hope you are wrong. Either way, it will be something interesting to watch. If Bitcoin dies overnight, we are going to see a lot of people jumping off the buildings. And if it succeeds, you know, we will become a type I civilization and all that...
Not technically a true backup system, I think, but Dropbox is pretty easy to use and is a lot better than nothing.
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The problem is in the perception it gives to those reading your post.

Infowars is not a legitimate journalistic effort. It is SEO optimized linkbait garbage created with the intent of selling videos, speaking engagements, and other assorted junk to gullible people.

There is a whole network of crazy headed by the likes of Alex Jones that cross-link each other sharing ridiculous claims masquerading as real causes and small injustices blown totally out of proportion to support insanely tangential ideas.

Some of these people also believe the government is run by lizard Jews from outer space.
It could just as well have been a TED talk, he really killed it.
I think the interesting thing here is the shift from the target - the "best" target used to be compromising the OS, so OS's made moves to protect themselves from programs running as unprivileged users. Now, it's trivial to wipe an OS and restore from a backup. The real value is the things people store on a computer, which are usually going to be accessible via a user account.

One trivial solution would be OS level automatic versioning of files (ala Dropbox or Sparkleshare) - the original files would be written to location that is read only to the user and only accessible via the OS, hence, backups could always be restored from it, but never destroyed without admin rights.

Of course, with people having great internet and whatnot, an automatic cloud based solution would be much more likely and useful.

I think with Windows 8.1 and onwards, Microsoft are automatically doing this by setting up the "Documents" type folders in SkyDrive - a great think moving forward.

Backups are, obviously, a much better solution but require extra storage and usually cost money.

So there might be a niche for a freeware product that runs as an admin that automatically versions files - perhaps even as simple as having an admin-owned .git repo for the Documents folder.

The worrying thing about this attack is that targeting user data is trivial on all OSs, because of the way we think about privileges - it could be done to us Linux users through something nasty in our shell rc using GPG or whatever. There is no need to compromise anything.
Alas poor Oculus, I knew you well
>The risk of shifting from the 9-to-5 mindset to "getting things done" is that people will end up (and some already are) working 70/80 hours a week and die young of heart attack.

This is the scenario that worries me- a massive race to the bottom in order to get "ahead". Most jobs aren't that important, and don't merit that much of the employee's time. At an e-commerce place I used to work, I overheard a c-level exec tell a guy who was putting in lots of overtime, "Remember, we're not curing cancer here." I think it's great that the exec was encouraging the guy to not place too much importance on his job, but it's too bad that it was necessary in the first place.
>The founder wouldn't be responsible for paying the remainder.

I wasn't sure because the article indicates the judgment was against both isoHunt and the founder (Gary Fung).
We're definitely getting a lot of useful information out of this, even if it appears somehow hostile at first. This way we can quickly see which information is even more important to stress and even what we somehow missed out initially.
This type of viruses are nothing new [0]. The only new thing in this case is that it demands BitCoins instead of an SMS to a premium number or something else.

[0] - https://www.securelist.com/en/descriptions/old313444
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Is there still no way to use RDP without shutting down the host's monitor and local UI? I still run VNC just to avoid that.
I seem to recall that the research on this says that HFT is actually a net taker of liquidity and that their profits are fully funded (and then some) by other investors not really by making the market more efficient (they actually reduce efficiency). I've also heard stated many times that an exchange that only matches trades every X seconds would retain efficiency while eliminating HFT.

This isn't the article I remember but goes into detail on most of these issues:

http://www.demos.org/publication/cracks-pipeline-part-two-hi...
Look into one of the many cloud based backup providers. I don't have any specific recommendations but here's a list off the top of my head:

1. http://www.carbonite.com/
2. http://www.crashplan.com/
3. http://www.backblaze.com/
It's not an X implementation, it's VESA emulation (disclaimer: this is a guess).
We'd kill today for any of the 1980s employment numbers during its height. A generally middle-class lifestyle was still possible on relatively low skill jobs, the idea that unions would price themselves out of work was still laughably absurd, etc etc. I really don't think this attempt to project 2010 political rhetoric that far back in time is practical.

It may not have been entirely egalitarian, but that's a chimera anyhow, so I would consider that a very weak criticism. Failing to achieve impossible goals is not a useful criticism.
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"On the other hand, what does the HN crowd say about technologies they really do find uninteresting and unimportant? Absolutely nothing."

This also encourages us in a way, as weird as it sounds. It probably means we're at least doing something right if everyone is paying so much attention to it. Thanks!
We would probably get a good amount of better performance out of it, but our current Heroku bill is low enough that even cutting it in half would be a small thing compared to changing the ruby version every developer uses.

While technically interesting, it just doesn't make any sense for us from a business perspective to put time into it.

I bet it would be a lot faster though. At least it is according to all the performance measurements I've seen in the past.
> I simply cannot take that seriously from someone who has not had a proper psychedelic trip from LSD. "You have no idea" would be a massive understatement.

I thought my trip was pretty proper, and I did not see any reason afterwards to modify what I wrote in advance. I realize VitaCat's tab, while advertised as 250μg, may really have been more like 150μg, but I wouldn't call that not a 'proper psychedelic trip', and I think I do at least have some idea.
As someone who keeps their inbox clean and pristine, your post just made me shudder...
> because that's the image their PR machine has very carefully cultivated

That's perfectly written. TPB once stood for freedom of the internet, even I don't deny that. However, when the original founders gave the website to an offshore company it became a website purely for profit but continued using the "freedom" excuse to create some kind of moral high ground.
I was under the impression that models are thrown out in a paradigm shift because they aren't robust enough to account for edge cases that start out as weird (and ignored) outliers to the original model. These outliers eventually become glaringly apparent to the mainstream. Ideally, the new model resulting from a paradigm shift supercedes the old model while modeling the edge cases that the older model was unable to account for. Don't take my word for it, though. It's been a long time since I've read the book ;-).