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> in the situations where "because, fuck you" are called for seem pretty explicitly ironic to me.

I'm not sure, about that.

I can hardly imagine a situation where "because SCIENCE" and "because MATH" are ironic at all, except (and not implying you) to internet hipsters that never understood science or math.

Why did it rain on my wedding day? Because IRONY!
Why a black fly in my chardonnay? Because IRONY!
Why 10,000 straws when I needed a spork? Because IRONY!

Sorry Alanis, still not ironic.
> I vaguely recall a claim that the greatest discoveries aren't being made by people in their twenties any more just because math is so huge you need ten years of study to get to the bleeding edge.

This depends heavily on what you mean. Of course there are areas of math requiring ten (or more) years of study before you can work in them. However...

- In theory, all high school graduates have studied math for at least twelve years.

- There are many, many problems on "the bleeding edge" of mathematics, in the sense that no one can solve them, but which can be stated in terms an algebra student would have no trouble understanding. Further, there are many mathematical techniques which are "advanced" in the sense that they are never taught in school, but are "simple" in the sense that the algebra student I mentioned earlier would have no trouble following a proof using them. If you're interested, try reading through the archives of Tanya Khovanova's blog; she has plenty of examples of IMO problems and special Soviet math exam problems for Jews.
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It's easier (and I'm a fan as well), but setting up an OpenVPN server with pre-shared key is very easy too. It's essentially a matter of apt-getting openvpn and writing a three line config file: http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/misce...
Actually, that's very nearly the approach I'm taking myself, so fair point (just that IT professionals usually run screaming for the hills if you talk about writing a password down). However, it also sounds like you're using just one password for everything - that seems very unwise.
OK.

How sure are you that academia is different from the general run of mankind in this regard?
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On Linux, this is typically nscd(8): Name service cache daemon. I believe some Linux distributions also ship with dnsmasq listening on localhost that serves a similar purpose.

Most home routers I've used also use dnsmasq.
If they don't tell about it, this is bad.

But I can imagine this to be a serious business model.
> While access to freely available knowledge is increasing, this knowledge is mostly broad, not deep. So we can have information on a lot of topics, but these topics aren't covered in very much depth.

This has bothered me quite a bit. I want to go to wikipedia and be able to find, to use Feynman's term, a map of the cat. I don't understand why it's not there.
Engineers tend to overestimate the impact of "intentions" on "systems" as big and complex as societies and economies. I doubt that the results the US is seeing were indeed foreseen and designed by anyone.

And I would like to add that civil governments also protect the poor from the rich. Just look at undemocratic systems to see who needs protection from whom.
half a million particles are rendered to a texture, which is then blurred, and the gradients are used to update the velocity of the particles in a feedback loop. There's no direct interaction between individual particles. There are two words to describe the haphazard in the behavior. Use Google or Wikipedia to learn about "dissipative systems" and "stigmergy".
yes, and factor that against the amount of coffee cups it took to make that app... Devs are so undervalued these days. Especially App devs. We so need a labour union of our own!
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Can you believe that ‘the sticky note’ was only invented 34 years ago? It’s no wonder why we have been so successfully productive in the past few decades. The Giving Tree Sticky Notes come on a white or brown plastic stump where you can slowly remove the tree ring-lined paper wafers and watch the stump shrink. With this new design you can have your same sticky note experience with more laughs and a little irony. The Giving Tree Notes can be replaced for an infinite supply of productivity inducing fun!
Just like weapons inspectors saw no evidence of WMD's in Iraq. That obviously doesn't mean there are no WMD's in Iraq.

Or just like cosmologists have seen no evidence of God, that doesn't mean god doesn't exist.

Engage brain before opening mouth.
Yes, you are right. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BertrandsPostulate.html
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You're right, ethnic Russians are only about 17% of the total Ukrainian population and heavily concentrated in the east. I guess it must be the distribution which effects voting patterns, rather than purely ethnicity.

Having asked the wife, so yes it's anecdotal evidence, she feels both Polish and Slovakian are closer to Ukrainian than standard Russian. She cites the example of a friend from St Petersburg who can only understand a few words of Ukrainian. Perhaps my wife's Ukrainian is somewhat dialectical, incorporating many Polish/Slovakian elements.
This isn't a web thing, it's a technology thing. If you dropped a database via a command line tool or desktop app, you'd still lose everything. It's not phpMyAdmin -nor any other web app- being lazy, it's just how that technology works.

And I think the argument that you can't blame the users isn't fair because these are sysadmin tools - so you'd expect the users to know what they're doing.
it's not Barnes-Hut, but good tip!
How much of those 55KB is the server?
I think you two must be using an older browser that doesn't support SVG properly. The green area contains an animated wireframe of an Xbox One.
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Upvoted this comment because valid.
Well, they do breed just fine even in the current system.
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Yes, that's called Bertrand's postulate, first proven in 1850 by Chebyshev. For any integer n > 3, there's at least one prime strictly between n and 2n-2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand's_postulate
Indonesia has spied on Australian politicians. So no moral high ground to be taken here.

Issue is how far up it went and the public airing. It's embarrassing to Indonesia.

Australia should of smoothed it over like USA did with Germany, if they wanted to avoid these headlines.

Other than that, every country is actively doing this.
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Let me suggest that if, in fact, your largest problem is something you can make vanish immediately, just by wishing it to be so, then you don't have many, or serious, problems.

Obviously, it's demeaning to change your name just because someone else doesn't like it. If it were actually giving you trouble, it wouldn't be a hard choice.
The title describes both possibilities. They could have added 'some' or 'three' to clarify. But then again FWIW they did not write 'all'.
Right, on Linux, for the scenarios described in the advisory, you'd need to have a trailing space in a file/folder name.

But if you just so happen to run nginx on Windows, you can loose the trailing space requirement as any file is accessible with a space at the end. Also in "/foo /../protected/file" scenario, foo doesn't need to exist.
Agreed. A couple of people here have pointed out that it's broken for them, or they don't like wasted pixels or something (somebody think of the pixels!) - but technical problems aside: this, and the PS4 review change my views of what an online article should be. It obviously doesn't apply to all content, but for a review of next-gen game consoles it really adds a sense of... tactile-ness? I dunno. But they are fantastic!
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/08/13/after_mul...

so the title of this news should be "The Transparent American"?
Lol
this may sound cliche, but i am really impressed with the website itself rather than the Xbox. (even that i am xbox user myself) !!
Next trick is to do IP-over-DNS and I'll be all set where ever I am.

iodine[1] is a fairly easy way to set that up. I just made a tunnel.mydomain.tld subdomain, pointed the NS records at my VPS and run "iodined 10.0.0.1 tunnel.mydomain.tld"

[1] http://code.kryo.se/iodine/
my password was \w{6}\d{2} and it was compromised.
Who else is supposed to "solve" this mess? Yelling at the government to change its behavior isn't very effective overall, but extraordinarily more effective than yelling at society as a whole.

On the other hand, for some people there only seem to be two options: Government has no power or the government has all power. No middle ground. No trying to design more effective policies.
All the ads are basically suck and spam including this article. This is disgusting.
Logging into my account, I can see quite a few failed attempts from a variety of IP addresses. All of them are from the same ISP in Venezuela. Quite scary, but my password is 40+ characters long and I have 2FA enabled. How weird!
The confusion is part of the joke, really; people that are in the same boat, friends of the person that says it, or regulars in the same community (say, Reddit) will go empathic and go "I like totally know what you mean, like". Retweet reblog like favorite pinned shared etc.

Those that aren't in on the joke go "because huh?", which is funny. Because lol internet.
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Have you ever been the manager of 30 incredibly smart people?

I can say from managing 10 very smart developers that no one can be their "boss". You have to make them want to do what needs to be done while convincing your own manager they are doing it. I you order them too frequently to do something they think is bad - for the product, for the company - they'll end up quitting.

It's like herding cats.

Edit: it's also a lot of fun.
How do you keep up with security notices?
Earlier this year Ruby had a few security notices. If I wasn't reading HN, I wouldn't have known to check. What does everyone use to alert them about these important events?
Too bad it's not the other way around: "The Transparent Chinese Government". Governments should be the ones that are completely transparent, not its citizens.
I don't know about you, but I seldom read through all the source code of the open source/free software I use. Yeah, even when I actually compile it myself.

If someone would slip in rogue code - it's quite likely some to many would actually run it and deploy it. Especially if it's a fast moving piece of software - like being so rapidly developed that distribution packages can't keep up for either time or stability reasons, leading people to compiling/deploying from source themselves.
The first comment is a quote from Dark Souls.

Fantastic game.
With 10k, I'd hire a designer for all the ideas floating around in my head, and move to a bigger city.

With 50k, I'd also hire a developer, to take care of some of those ideas while I take care of others.

Also, with 100k I would do the same and invest some in other peoples ideas.
Surveillance has a chilling effect on free speech.
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Which is actually a merger of two words (van wege), which roughly translates to 'because of'. Lots of words are pronounced as if they are one (or always together), and in this case they were eventually written as one.
Well, if you're brute forcing user passwords - you've probably done a cursory crawl of all or some users first.

A good bet to find people with private repositories, would be to aim for all or a subset of those who belong to an Github "organisation".

Likelihood of valuable user greatly increased.
to me it looks like bitcoin buy price is predicting twitter sentiment...
I'm here too because work.
Exactly how is your example useful or pertinent to fighting terrorism/terrorist acts? The politician in your example is a public figure. Unless you considered Osama Bin Laden (and other terrorists) public figures and have access to their " Twitter feeds, blog entries and websites, all of which is all freely available on the internet. " Your comment doesn't make much sense... Or maybe I'm missing the point (which is likely/possible).
"That's how technology works" because that's how the specific bits of technology we're talking about have been implemented. We make the technology, and we could make it work differently. There are cases where un-undoable commands are useful, but these cases are only a small fraction of the things we do on computers, sysadmins or not. Sysadmins may "know what they're doing" but they make mistakes like anyone else, and software should, where possible, be designed to reduce the impact of those mistakes.
hope you don't accidentally download something illegal.
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What consumer protections are you talking about? Issuing a refund? I'm pretty sure they could issue a refund if they wanted to.

The transaction fees you are talking about are so much smaller than credit card companies they are basically negligible. Also they keep dropping lower.
There's a neat hardware comparison here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

Seems like ASICs are measured in the thousands to tens or hundreds of thousands of MHashes/sec. Whereas powerful GPUs drawing ~1000 Watts don't even break 1000MH/sec. High-end laptop GPUs seem to be in the 10s of MH/sec, a quad-core Atom shows 2MH/sec, and the Galaxy SII comes in at 1.3.

The vast majority of devices connecting to public APs are not going to be high-power systems. Not to mention the time they'll spend connected is unlikely to be 24/7. Even if it was, mining will probably drain batteries pretty quickly. Plus power-saving is likely to be on for mobile devices and reduce peak perf. And if it's just injecting JS, then backgrounded tabs should get much less CPU time. And WebGL/etc. are unlikely to be running in background tabs.

If you assume a device stays connected and open for 1/4 a day, and stays for 3 days on average, and gives you 1MH/sec (seems optimistic, all things considered), 1 million devices compromised a month gives you ~$300 a month. If the assumption is that you can persistently own a machine, then you'd need less machines. But that's going beyond simple JS injection on HTML pages.

I used this calculator: http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator
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I do not know for VPN, I use ssh. It is very simple and does not require any system administration right. Install a proxy (squid) on your Amazon EC2. Install putty if you are on windows and launch it with port forward using the option -L: putty -L 3128:127.0.0.1:3128 user@host

Add the option --proxy-server=127.0.0.1:3128 on you chrome shortcut and that's it.
I believe management feudal battles only expose another type of problem employee. With an adequate model that can measure and predict future problems, it may just be possible to get rid of the problem employees (and managers who engage in feudal disputes are just that too) or even fix them by removing the factors that created the behavior in the first place.

If anyone can turn management into a real science, it's Google.
Folks have been doing this for years, and for cheaper, with balloons and kites. Check out the awesome work at publiclab.org, where they've mapped the gulf oil spill in 2010, pollution at the Gowanus canal, Occupy encampments. Stitch the photos with the OSS Ruby tools at mapknitter.org, publish them with a public domain license, and they'll actually be added to the google base map!

Buy a kit for < $100:
http://store.publiclab.org/products/balloon-mapping-kit
That is one possible origin of the word; its actual origin is unknown and disputed.
When the executive negotiates without Congress's participation, citizens don't get a say in the process. We don't get to review the agreement, or pressure our representatives into changing or rejecting it. However, special industry groups do, including the RIAA, as advisors to USTR.

- http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120508/17174518835/time-t...

P.S. The TPP stands for Trans Pacific Partnership. A US senator means jack shit to someone in Japan, Australia etc.
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People have difficulty with rules that don't make sense to them. It's very easy to think: "This can't possibly apply to me in this situation".

When a convicted criminal demonstrates an inability to follow rules they don't agree with, that's an indicator that they might commit additional crimes. For example, "this law against rape can't possibly apply to me in this situation where she was asking for it".

Parole is intended only for criminals with a low probability of committing additional crimes. The burden is on the convicted criminal to demonstrate that they are unlikely to commit new crimes.

Look, if he was convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, I agree he is a victim. But he's a victim of drug laws, not the parole system. The parole system is doing the right thing here.
"Destroys privacy by posting tons of selfies"

UNDO UNDO UNDO
Using chrome or Firefox will give you a big fat warning when you strip the https with a man in the middle attack for google and facebook.
See the NY Times "Snowfall" article[1] for a beautiful example of this in a wider context. It's a little old now, but was groundbreaking at the time.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunne...
I lived in China for years, and this is not news. Chinese know from day 1 they are potentially being spied on -- the opposite of American thinking.

If the Chinese government had a leaker like Edward Snowden, any information from him would not surprise any Chinese person.
Maybe we should consult the Queen before attempting to ruin her language?
That is the most beautifully well-written article about mathematics that I have read in my life.

The explanations made it completely accessible as a CS student with nothing more than calculus experience and familiarity with the concept of the search for primes.
Still prefer first and rest. At least that has meaning outside the first use of car and cdr.
This kind of comment is useless without information on browser, version, OS, etc. It works fine in the latest Safari.
I hate theatlantic.com for their sliding down ad at the top.
Stealing is lucrative, not because it's an efficient use of available resources, but because it allows the thief to profit at the expense of others.
Have you never seen or heard of political advertising? Any form of marketing which creates comparisons tries to create a lesser impression of the thing which isn't being peddled.

And my point is that some very smart people work in marketing. People who think they can avoid being influenced are delusional.
How is bulk metadata useful against diplomats or for industrial espionage?

For those you prefer content and don't care so much about the metadata.

The UK has recently had debates about the collection of bulk metadata. Imagine our surprise when GCHQ was slurping it all along. They say that they're a secret organisation and that their collections can't be used for domestic law enforcement, and that this debate was actually about allowing law enforcement to collect metadata.

I would prefer GCHQ to not be slurping this data, but I don't see it as being particularly harmful to me. But extending that out to the general law enforcement agencies, or wider to local government officials etc, is terrifying. GCHQ employees are reasonably well trained in secrecy and privacy and the risk of information being misused is low[1], but we've seen plenty of abuses of personal data by police forces (selling information to news papers, and so on) and local councils (spying on people applying for parking permits or for entry to certain schools) and so it's a bit scary letting them get hold of any more data than they strictly need, especially if there's no judge involved.
Anyone want to post the text of this article in the comments for those of us in China?
Well, it sure is an official guideline [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:COI
I'd make sure I finish the CS degree with a good classification as your job is just a job and with a degree you can do more than just code for a living.
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You've obviously never heard of yacc and lex then or bison?
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Does anyone think this is over-engineered? I can imagine looking back at this in ten years as we do with blinking marquees.

I agree the artwork is really impressive but for a console review it should be content over presentation, right? It genuinely appears that the page was a big custom job and the prose was scratched up in an afternoon.
Github recently introduced a "Releases" section where you can tag releases and provide binaries: https://github.com/PostgresApp/PostgresApp/releases

It's a great way to distribute Open Source software. (Previously Mattt hosted it on a personal Amazon S3 account which he paid out of his own pocket; now bandwidth is generously paid for by Github)
I'll take head/tail over first/rest, but first/rest is not too bad.
You should be pre-rendering them, since a long wait to first byte negatively impacts SEO. Google suggests this https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/....
I recently launched http://crawlspa.com to offer this as a service.
i hope this leads to something interesting in the physics world and helps people move away from string theory (sorry if you are a supporter of string theory -- it has been advancing mathematics, but pure physics, not so much).
I use Keepass, which has an Android client. Sync is via Dropbox, soon (I hope) to shift to git-annex.
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Wow, they literally named it "skynet".
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The three examples are different.

God may exist, we cannot say. Cosmologists are not looking for God, and so the fact they have not discovered God means little. WMD don't exist in Iraq because it was a lie ginned up to allow us to go to war. It doesn't matter what weapons inspectors find - the point wasn't WMD but the reaction to the inspections programme.

A secret collection of mass meta-data collection being examined by people without security clearance is unlikely to find any benefit because no-one is going to tell them what happens with the data. "We see no evidence of benefit" could mean "there is no benefit, and thus we haven't seen any evidence" or it could mean "there is plenty of benefit, but that's all secret, and no-one will tell us about it, and thus we've seen no evidence of benefit".

> Engage brain before opening mouth.

That makes you sound like a bit of a dick. Just saying.
One of the advantages of using SSH is that it almost always works, even in environments (think China) that actively block detected VPN connections. SSH running on port 443 looks a lot like HTTPS.
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There's a guide here: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling

If you use a client-side MVC framework, e.g. Ember, it should work out of the box.