skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really saddens me that so much resources are devoted to destroying the world's security. It stands to reason that all of their research efforts will inevitably be leaked out to the general populace, and at that point we will be in a World of Shit.

It will be like antibiotics suddenly becoming useless, but instead encryption suddenly becoming useless.

It's not about spying anymore, it's about manipulating the world to meet your needs. And it's getting easier for them to do their job and harder for us to keep our freedom -- the surveillance-industrial complex is gaining momentum because it's the new "air superiority."

The cost is so fantastically low that it's foolish for military institutions -- be it sovereign or otherwise -- it's foolish for them to not invest in their own surveillance infrastructure.

If there's anything the world's governments can agree on with regards to ubiquitous gigabit fibre, it's one thing: surveillance will definitely be easier and cheaper.
I'm actually looking into a segfault issue deep in the bowels of a C++ addon we have in node.js (anyone in #node.js will have seen me over the past few weeks ask about it), but what reading this makes me realize is how woefully underequipped I am to hunt for problems of this nature.

My problem is likely in one of our addons, but this kind of debugging, this whole genre of problem solving is entirely beyond me. How do I get to this level? What do I need to learn? To study?

It's just a little depressing to read something like this and see how far the road ahead goes, despite how far I've already traveled...
Wow I'm surprised game development is still like that. I haven't done game development in almost 9 years, but the "Perforce saturating the LAN" problem sounds very familiar!

So I'm actually working on a (binary) software distribution system, and I think it would work very well for this use case. This problem can be solved with software -- it doesn't require an upgrade to fiber.

The (straightforward) idea is to use content-addressed storage and differential compression, pretty much like Git does. Then you can actually sync data from your neighbor's machine, in a BitTorrent-ish fashion (possibly getting tiny amounts of metadata from a central server for consistency). Perforce definitely has problems with spurious lock contention, and just a few team members syncing from the same machine can easily clog its pipes if you're not careful.

I'm not up to date, but I'm pretty sure you can do better than Perforce's delta compression. You can probably do it with a single generic algorithm, but one way to really improve would be to use file-type specific compression, e.g. bsdiff or Chrome's Courgette for executables, and use other heuristics for game data, raw audio, video, etc. You actually want to avoid single-file compression in the repository so you can take advantage of the differential compression.

I can understand that the dynamics of game development teams means that this will never get written in house (although perhaps in the years since I've left, people started placing more emphasis on tools).

But for all the entrepreneurs out there, I wouldn't dismiss the market of selling tools to game developers. Perforce is a tiny company that I know made an absolute killing in that market, and I'm somewhat surprised that after a decade they're still the state of the art.
Not on the first date with a complete stranger that I have no ties to beyond a phone number.
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I'm arguing that everything gets abused, and I'm not sure what is special about this that would make it additionally prone to abuse, more-so than any of the other tools the government has at its disposal.
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The bitcoin mania is starting to freak me out. Maybe it feels fleeting and manic because it's truly indicative of a powerful change, but it also seems so desperate.
I admit. I don't know how I feel about that.
This part jumped out at me:

>In other countries, the document said, the N.S.A. must also "counter indigenous cryptographic programs by targeting their industrial bases with all available Sigint and Humint"

The phrase indigenous cryptographic programs brings up the interesting possibility that other countries use different encryption algorithms, and standards that are (apparently) rather difficult for the NSA to crack. Anyone know what they may be alluding to here?

P.S. It goes without saying, but the current (and previous) administration was absolutely wrong to sanction these wanton violations of our rights. It would be wrong even if it were effective at combating threats, but it isn't. The fact that the NSA wants even more of this kind of information is proof that the value of self-restraint is missing. Good people - particularly intelligent, well-intentioned political dissidents - are going to be stifled by these intrusions, and the health of our democracy depends on allowing the free expression of that dissent without fear of reprisal.
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Since you said <100 BTC and not <10 BTC I'm gonna assume you have at least 10.

Which is a lot.
Media reports relying on materials that Snowden leaked should credit him by name within the first two paragraphs, and he should get credits against potential U.S. jail time for every article of this kind published to mass media. I don't like that millions are reading headlines and going, "holy cow whoa geez" and lining up their political thinking accordingly, without ever knowing that Snowden, completely locked out of the U.S. or any western country at this point is the one who provided the information in question.
Without casting any aspersions on the veracity of the photo, being talked about, it has to be said that there was plenty of amateur footage making the rounds in the early stages of the conflict, right about the time the UK parliament put the commitment of British forces in a potential military involvement, to vote.

The integrity of photos and video evidence (filmed mostly by amateurs in the early stages of the military strikes by Syrian security forces) was disputed.

http://brown-moses.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/videos-claim-to-sh...

BBC News uses 'Iraq photo to illustrate Syrian massacre'

The BBC is facing criticism after it accidentally used a picture taken in Iraq in 2003 to illustrate the senseless massacre of children in Syria.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9293620/BB...

Photos of Syria Chemical Attack Appear to Have Been STAGED

http://www.westernfreepress.com/2013/09/13/analysis-photos-o...
It's much closer to 10 BTC right now than 100. I am a miner who liquidates frequently.
I felt the same way for a long time. I first became interested in bitcoin about a year ago. Eventually you will accept it. This is the future, it just makes too much sense.
If someone loses "he lost".

If someone wins "we won"
Node.js is still cancer.
Yeah, that's pretty much it. I was trying to read about a problem with a javascript engine, and I was prevented from doing so by what could quite likely have been another problem with the same javascript engine.
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Honestly, Xcode for iOS Development in Objective-C.

In addition to that, Parse for backend development. I'm just getting started learning backend development for iOS, and Parse is the best way to do it in my opinion.

I'm not sure if this is considered a "tool," but TeamTreehouse.com for learning. Their platform is growing everyday, looks and feels beautiful to use, has a fantastic community, and the quality of the tutorials and other content is unlike any other service.
Doesn't that show your Bias? If you are a miner you have huge amounts of money invested in sha-256 specific ASICs. Perhaps ten of thousands of dollars worth.

Also by inflating the value of btc you hope to gain more money per liquidation.
I have found that the plane time travel door-to-door is almost slower than land base transport, especially train. If I travel from Cologne to Paris, car about 6.5 hrs, train is 3.5 hrs, plane is about 4.5 hrs.
No, it's not. A nuclear weapon is a special case. Guns are not, as it's already accepted that many people can own them despite their risk levels.

"It could be abused" is not a valid reason not to do something, because everything is abused. It's human nature to abuse power. "The consequences of inevitable abuse are too severe to risk." is a better argument. What are the consequences of the abuse of this information? What, of these consequences, are possible only by the abuse of this information? What can go wrong when this system gets abused?

Those are the relevant questions, and what we should be discussing, not quietly yelping, "my privacy" as we're each drug out of our beds into the night.
No, I am not suggesting that.
Average time between blocks is 10 minutes. Your transaction will be in the middle between two blocks which results in a 5 minute average wait.
You can use Squid on PFsense (available as package):

https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Setup_Squid_as_a_Transpare...

but I don't think it would be trivial to configure for an end-user
Which questions did they address? Doesn't seem like they said anything.

The comment that teams could use existing code, but not use products that were already released or in development seems in conflict with the allegation that the winning team demoed the product weeks before the contest started.

"Once we complete our review of the final entries, we will post our findings here. " Is in conflict with the title... More like "Sometime when everyone has forgotten we WILL BE addressing questions"

-Not a Dreamforce Participant.
UK minimum wage is £6.31 an hour which converts to $10.24, so slightly higher. Though maybe that conversion is too simplistic.
I pick less chance for errors over performance. Referencing variables outside of local scope is something I avoid. Write beautiful code first, because it's easier to optimize beautiful code than to beautify optimized code.
You are still missing the point. It's not a discussion about media legitimacy, it's a discussion if a photo is fake or not.
Where does it add support for docker? Otherwise seems like a deliberately misleading title.

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_E...

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_E...
They Demoed on October 5th. That is before the 25th. #notadoctorwhoepisode
Needs an update, currently the largest wallet know is this one 12sENwECeRSmTeDwyLNqwh47JistZqFmW8. It's holding about 200k btc.
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That's a sign of a failing currency that no-one wants to use though, it's a bad signal when people really want to transact in something else but are forced to use a currency.
Concorde was sustainable. Almost everyone of them left the ground full. But these were planes built in the 70s. The rest of AF and BA fleet are fairly new withe oldest being from the mid 90s.

The planes were getting more expensive to maintain and there was nothing coming to replace them.
Very sure.

It's not in the written rules of the game, but is a consequence of the rules.

To place the opposing king in checkmate, you must have sufficient pieces to threaten the square the king is on, and all adjacent squares, simultaneously. This means anywhere from 4-8 squares depending on the position.

King and knight, alone, cannot threaten enough contiguous squares simultaneously to cause checkmate in any position, largely because the knight must place the opposing king in check (a king cannot get close enough), but due to the mechanics of the knight's move there will always be at least three adjacent squares not threatened by the knight at that moment, and at least one that cannot be threatened by the knight's king.

You should feel free to try this yourself: place a king of one color on the board, and a king and knight of the other color, and then use only those pieces to try to construct a checkmate. It simply cannot be done. The best you can do is isolate the lone king in a corner and cause a draw by depriving it of moves (but it will not be in check at that time, so it will be stalemate, not checkmate).

And as luiz-pv9 points out, king+knight is not the only "insufficient material" combination.
This definitely depends a lot on the airport and distance you are traveling. San Francisco to New York, Los Angeles to Chicago... America is too big for land to be faster. Stuff is a closer in Western Europe.
sigh, it just goes to show CSS/HTML alone isn't ready for such computation quite yet.
Certainly any encryption system which cannot at least be publicly audited should not be trusted.
Hmmm. Isn't this just parallax?
While the author seems to know something about photo analysis (he believes the photo was not tampered with) he know jack shit about blood or wound analysis. And neither do the "professional photographers and artists" he knows.

I find it rather disturbing that someone would suggest that it was staged based on such flimsy evidence. And the subtitle "Just A Flesh Wound" is a reference to an extremely bloody but hilarious scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail - nice.

The Syrian Civil War is a tragedy and the civilians are not the villains.
> You can have both. Encrypt everything before uploading, decrypt on download (and I don't mean SSL, I mean client encrypts, sends encrypted data over SSL, data is stored encrypted, only decrypted by client).

Yep, client-side encryption is the only working solution.

The funky bit is that on Linux you can make this fully transparent at the OS level. Expose remote storage via iSCSI, and attach to it so the storage shows up as a block device on your client system. Then put regular on-disk ("partition level") encryption on top of the blockdevice using cryptsetup, and that's it. All storage data sent over the wire is now encrypted, and the crypto mapping layer takes care of hiding the gritty details.

Because the encryption happens beneath the filesystem layer, all the usual tools work as before. For them the only difference is the latency. (Network connection naturally causes an upper bound that is way lower than a local drive.) Works wonderfully for backups, where you want to do incrementals in any case. Just ship rdiff deltas and have a backup tool which takes care of the work.

I actually implemented this as my Master's thesis back in 2006, only to be informed later on that logically identical construct had been shown as early as 2003.
How could anyone actually use bitcoins to buy anything? With this volatility, how can you settle on a price for actual merchandise or services?
My only surprise is that the winning team didn't keep their product quiet beforehand and do a good acting job on how hard they had to work to get it done within the deadline. A million dollar prize is very likely to create controversy when there are loop holes and ambiguity in the rules and even if I did get a head start, I would have wanted to avoid the chance of this type of blowback.
> relationships with companies that develop encryption tools

That indeed sounds scary.
I know most people are psyched about the end of desktop software, but personally I can't stand apps that don't belong in the browser, being ported to run in the browser.
The difference is pretty simple. In MTG, anyone with 200 bucks can buy a world class T2 deck and learn to play it reasonably well in just a few hours.

So, I spend my weekends putting on a black uniform and working as a tournament judge at professional-level Magic events. And... maybe you're right that someone could do well at a local FNM this way. But at any sort of serious competitive level (even at the Pro Tour Qualifier level), your assertion just doesn't hold up.

You can see this in tournament results, by the way. Card availability is basically only an issue for casual/FNM play. At any sort of real competitive tournament, the field is made up of players who have access to the cards they want, and the winner is determined by a combination of preparation and skill.

Most importantly, you can see this in results from Limited formats (where players build decks using cards opened on-site from standard booster packs, which are unpredictable enough to constitute a random per-player card pool). Though there are certainly "Limited specialist" players, for the most part you will see similar lists of names among the top finishers in both Limited and Constructed formats, which drives home the point in a frankly undeniable way.
You've named one difference. There's many, many commonalities.
I agree with you, but Snowden doesn't. He's frequently asked the journalists who have communicated with him to downplay his name in the story, because he believes the story is so much more important than his involvement.

I don't know how to combine that desire for the story to take the lead and for him to get credit with the American people he deserves (and get the public sentiment so firmly on his side that the powers that be have to pardon him, or face a vengeful public).

I also don't know how to inform Americans about how many of our politicians endorse all of these illegal actions (and the legal ones that aren't ethical). Every one in America should be furious at Obama, Pelosi (so much rage at Pelosi is warranted), Feinstein, Lindsey Graham, etc. But, they aren't. Even people who think the Snowden and Manning leaks were a good and necessary thing aren't connecting the dots that Obama is where the buck stops.

And, those very few senators and members of the house who've had the guts to support Snowden and Manning should be getting a whole lot of praise. Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul (who I'm loathe to say nice things about) deserve respect for standing up on this one.
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At this point I really don't think a single blogger has all that much effect. What's going on here is being driven by forces much larger than this blog post.
> Recent volatility is almost entirely related to external market factors [sic: externalaties] and not underlying changes in valuation

You can't separate out causes of volatility like that. A crash because of a massive bitcoin theft is no different than a crash for any other reason. The long term success of bitcoin depends on the perception of value, and if people believe bitcoin is liable to crash for any reason it will hurt it's chances.

Moreover it's not even true that the bitcoin market is just reacting to trading-related issues. For example the congressional hearing had substantial effect.
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there is no such thing as "too late".. the only thing you should be deciding on, is how high/low will bitcoin be, end of next year. If you think the price per BTC will soar up to $2000, then was it too late to buy now? Absolutely no!
Real time exchangers [sic: merchants] will settle on slightly less than normal exchange rates. This will ultimately help to close spreads and decrease volatility.
I just started to replay serious sam 1 last week those game engines were great especially considering the limited hardware of the era. I remember playing them on multi player on the school network with a few friends when the teacher were pre occupied.
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I agree, banks have their place in the world but should I use bitcoin to buy a coffee and a paper, maybe.
This is true. That is a gross over-simplification. I'll work in some edits here, thanks!
If things stay as they are, things will be easier and cheaper. But things never stay the same, and even for their needs, crypto won't suddenly become useless (maybe the kind that relies on central parties, but people who take this stuff seriously probably don't rely on the "we promise we wont look at your key generation" in their threat models, and look, even AFRICOM uses Chinese satellites[0] which I'm sure numerous of SIGINT folks had to give their ok for, right?).

And there are things on the horizon like meshnets[1] that should prove to bring more challenges for governments (and private contractors/companies) that seek to tap backbones, DIY cellphones[2] that bypass coercive governments who sweet talk org/corps, and cheap drones that can be controlled by gestures of potential targets at the disposal of the masses[3] that enable crowd-sourced data collection and attack vectors previously not available to the common man.

Also, impromptu DoD initiatives[4], don't make me think things are as asymmetric as most people may think.

[0] http://blog.heritage.org/2013/05/07/american-military-commun...

[1] http://forum.chimeshnet.com/

[2] http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2182

[3] http://startupdestiny.com/2013/11/19/why-i-hacked-an-ar-dron...

[4] http://www.zyn.com/sbir/sbres/sbir/dod/darpa/darpasb133-002....
And how many naysayers are recycling the same tired old objections right now and for the entire history of bitcoin and probably well into the future of either bitcoin or fiat currency proper?

Bearish sentiment in the run up to a massive surge is no evidence that there are not hurdles to overcome, Bullish sentiment in the run up to a massive crash is no evidence that everything bitcoin has to accomplish has already been accomplished.
"My impression of Bitcoin was that they simply price it in Yen or USD..."

No, exactly like gold, Bitcoin does have an exchange rate for each currency. Again, there is zero difference between how gold is traded and how Bitcoin is traded. It's all multiple independent exchanges, with their own asks and bids.

If, by your argument, "this is what makes gold strong", then this is what makes Bitcoin strong as well. Both are traded in the same ways. I am unsure why you think there is some difference.
I think "technically illegal" should be defined here.

I played professionally a few years back, so this was my understanding of the law then, and I haven't heard of any changes:

It's perfectly legal, as a player, to play. Laws have been created that prevent banks from transferring money to and from poker sites.

When Black Friday happened, it was primarily because poker sites were committing fraud to work with banks to process payments.

There are still sites operating, however they take very, very long to process payments, limit cashouts to a point where professional play is not possible, and can suffer the same fate as the big three sites did on Black Friday.
It would be really funny if at the end, Craigslist was there.

(in terms of looks)
ZeniMax will fold the id software llc, keep anybody worth keeping, and work on making money with the intellectual property (either internally or farming it out). There's nothing else left at id that's worth what ZeniMax paid for the company other than the IP and the game engine. I'm sure they knew the day would come sooner than later that they'd lose the Carmack value factor in id.
Are you expecting full-time work for a bed in a house with roommates and a work-space?
It's not going to be useful as a currency for a while. Nor would it be if its market cap was only $10 billion. For it to be a currency it has to stabilize sufficiently. In that case the boom-bust cycles will have to stop, which means speculation will have to slow down. As soon as BitCoin becomes old news - that's when the rate of appreciation will slow down. But since in the long run, potential growth is the market cap of all the existing currency in the world - meaning, (unlikely) we could potentially get to the point where all currency is replaced by BitCoin - then who knows? We might have to wait until BitCoin units have saturated every corner of the Earth before it becomes rational to spend even a little BitCoin. In which case a satoshi will be worth a dollar and those of us with one or more BitCoins will be multi-millionaires.

If only...
Not any good ones, no.

All of my professional-playing friends quit or moved out of country after Black Friday.

You can bypass location restrictions with VPN, but you also need a foreign bank account and can be caught and have your funds seized.