skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And?

Like during the cold war, the world was a button press from global collapse.

It is not a good thing that random act of sabotage against targets which the attacker can't and won't verify is happening with such indifference to consequences. As citizens, we should react with more than "And?".
“What I want is a good, strong monarchy with a tasteful and decent king who has some knowledge of theology and geometry and to cultivate a Rich Inner Life.”
Well admittedly, the search space of possible ideas is too damn large to be very efficient about searching it. Real people search it roughly breadth-first, and that works pretty well for us considering the cost/benefit ratio of depth.

Consider if people had been imaginative about, say, Stalinism.
I was unable to run the installer because I don't have administrative rights. It would be better without need for administrative rights.
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=cacioppo+loneliness
"Code for money", essentially. Or?
How i got a 299% increase in revenue in 7 weeks
Given today's ISP market with is dominated by vertically integrated players, I assumed "regulate it as a utility" did not implicitly include structural separation. Many other utility examples do not require structural separation to be regulated like a utility.

If the point is structural separation would be a Very Good Thing; then that's what we need to say, and not 'let's regulate it like a utility.' Bear in mind that AT&T already has a history of subverting structural separation with line-shared DSL, so don't expect the existing incumbents to turn it on tomorrow without kicking and screaming.
The idea I've proposed (although I'm sure I'm not the first to have done it)

I find your wording a bit strange here. Saying that you proposed the idea and yet half-acknowledging prior work, as if you're not aware of it.

You and Marco were at my senior project presentation where I talked this very issue (several weeks ago). Half of your blog post came out of my talk. Happy to see you were able to figure out the last slide was partly referring to Namecoin.[1]

This idea has also been discussed for some time on the Namecoin forums, and various security mailing lists and websites.

I'm glad more people are exploring this option. It would be nice if they were a bit more polite.

[1] http://cl.ly/image/153W3X3Q140y/Screen%20Shot%202013-11-23%2...
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That's a prerequisite for the installer package I'm using (Inno Setup) unfortunately. I'll try to get around that.
I'm not a lawyer or any sort of expert on copyright law, and in particular, I know that I can't comment on things like whether there's a minimum level of creative effort necessary to merit copyright.

That said, my understanding is that when you write something that's eligible for copyright protection, it is automatic: you don't need to say "Copyright" explicitly at all. It doesn't matter how you use the work in question (although the protections for "unpublished" work are stronger than for "published" work).

Now, it sounds like one element of this trial involved the license implicitly granted to Twitter by posting there. But the very fact that licensing was an issue demonstrates that copyright was in force here. (And the trial evidently concluded that Twitter's license is not tantamount to placing content into the public domain.)
Testing Before Shipping
Reminds of the sex scene from the movie Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock. Here's the link to the particular scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k80UQWWUIYs [May be nsfw]
Here's your pipeline to a diversified tech industry
Since code could be self-modifying; clearly simple-data access has never been a guarrantee.

But in practice, today as ever, it's a good guideline. When you see an accessor, it will almost always be fast and side-effect free.

Now, part of that is because not all browsers support the features you refer to and therefor these features just don't get used much. But even in languages like C# and python, that have had real accessors for a long time, it's still a good guideline: it's generally considered bad practice to make a slow, side-effectful accessor, and most people don't.

Controlling side effects and performance are important, and the uniform access principle has little upside in most non-public code, yet considerable cost in that it obscures one of the few indicators mainstream languages have for these aspects.
They also consider themselves exempt from the common practice that text in quotes contains sentences the people quoted have actually said or written.

I.e., the author may as well have pulled it out of her ass, and you would be none the wiser. That's old school quality journalism for you.
Who is trying to hurt her with this? And, why?
"the cost of titanium will drop by a factor of two to five"

Steel is easy to weld (depends on type, but generally)
Aluminum is harder
Titanium is even harder. It reacts with nitrogen.

Steel is relatively easy to machine
Aluminum can be even easier.
Titanium is very hard.

Sounds like there might be some roadblocks on wide spread adoption of titanium still, even if the raw material gets cheaper.

The SR-71 was largely constructed out of titanium since the whole airframe heated up to high temperatures in high speed flight.
The maintenance facilities had welding stations that had nitrogenless atmospheres under a "bubble".
> We live in a constant state of readiness for wars that have unclear purposes and the governments we have seem much more interested in tearing down ideas like full employment or sexual or narcotic freedoms.

But we also have instant gratification with cat pics and low cost low value food and low quality disposable trash toys.
>"Even if you were a total bastard you would get rid of anyone you were responsible for who was pulling that kind of crap, as long as you had even the slightest instinct for self-preservation."

You're assuming that real accountability exists somewhere short of escalation to the national news. That's not necessarily or even (anecdotally) likely the case and really, what are the chances?

How many years, decades and victims did this county have before now?

In my experience, law enforcement is dominated by a culture of deference to seniority, dreams of retiring with a pension and an "at war" attitude.

Self-preservation is keeping your mouth shut and toeing the line.
Color and context for the Rails console: console_color
> "I wanted to share a few examples of a powerful skill that I’ve been gradually picking up over the last year. It is simply the ability to quickly hack together custom browser extensions in Chrome and using them to customize my favorite websites."

Having this ability on every platform you use can be very powerful indeed, which is why I always have a jailbroken/rooted phone to customize[1].

[1] http://www.cydiasubstrate.com
Overdraft fees up to $150 are waived. Very generous of the Fed.
I actually quite enjoy looking at it, along with Lovejoy which doesn't get as much press but also is quite visible to the naked eye at a really dark location. Both of the commets are great, if you're into that kind of thing, which I am.

However, I only meant to point out that it could really dissuade beginners from every trying astronomy again, if such a "spectacular" once in a lifetime thing is just a little smudge which they can barely see through a telescope, so faint so far in fact that it would be very difficult for them to even find. Unlike truly spectacular commets, which are plainly visible to the naked eye, and for which hitting the tail is easy and following it to the nucleus is easy enough (and exciting) even for a beginner. I'm afraid a lot of people are buying telescopes just for this and may be disappointed that they can't even find it. Hopefully they aren't too disappointed and can eventually make good use of their scopes.

PS: too see a really spectacular commet, check out pictures of commet Mcnaught from just a few years ago. Absolutely incredible.
It's not that they will paper over problems a child has; if you read other sources they will outright lie. I also recall reading, unfortunately an article that I can no longer find, that China and Russia would often give severely challenged children to US adoptive parents.

The article also emphasizes that the US government, both federal and state, offers virtually no help to the parents and highlights a case where the parents where threatened with prosecution because they couldn't handle a child that had physically hurt one of their other children.

There is plenty of blame to go around, unfortunately, but it really highlights the almost complete lack of mental health care available in the US and the lack of help for parents who have very damaged children, whether adopted or not.
From his HN bio:

>I'm the head of the webspam team at Google.
That's kind of exactly my point :-). It rarely has a place in the internals of your webapp, and as such makes no sense as a design philosophy for object patterns aiming to be used largely in the internals of your webapp.
How do you get business people to take QA test seriously?
Is it common for business people to 'sign-off' on what they see in QA environment, but then repeatedly comeback with more changes afterward? It's one thing if the change is a major bug or show-stopper, but 3/4th of the changes appear to be 'minor' changes and typos, for which there were plenty of chances to correct. Unfortunately, nothing really is minor.

And many of these changes magically appear near the release date, which tells me that business folks don't take testing seriously until the last moment.

I understand business people are not professional QA testers, and they may be distracted by their day-to-day tasks. But how do you get them to take testing seriously?

If you had similar experience at your organization, how did you overcome the problem?
then the tech world just got 1000x more boring. I thought people got into the startup world because they wanted to AVOID wall street....

best thing the author said lol --
I recommend governments to shut down the entire network to prevent people from doing nasty things with Bitcoin.
amen

Btw VMG this is the last you'll hear from me! I'm trying to resolve to not read/comment on any more Bitcoin posts. It's fueling the fire of boredom. I gotta code somethin cool in the next few months so we can have a new headline on this site finally.
Zhang is married.
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no, it provides anecdotal evidence

So, in other words perfect ...?

There has never been a diagnosis called "psychopathy" in either the DSM or ICD.[contradiction] The first edition of the DSM in 1952 had a section on sociopathic personality disturbances, then a general term that included such things as homosexuality and alcoholism as well as an "antisocial reaction" and "dyssocial reaction". The latter two eventually became antisocial personality disorder in the DSM and dissocial personality disorder in the ICD

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/antisocial-personality-disor...
Yea, but CryptoLocker generally use a zip attachment with a exe file.
10-12 hours on Macbook Air(on and off with additional monitor).
1-2 hours on iPhone.
Disproving the claim that this particular person is behaving in this way because of these brain structures is nearly impossible with the state of neuroscience as it currently is, so it isn't a something that can be viewed as anything other than an interesting hypothesis at this stage. You just wouldn't be able to achieve anything approaching a decent level of statistical confidence from studying a single subject, no matter how many anecdotes you cite about them.
The Bitcoin protocol isn't encrypted (it can't be, nodes have no identities in the network), and doesn't attempt to mask itself in any way. An ISP can absolutely log every transaction relayed by their customers... of course, it's still impossible to determine whether that person actually created that transaction
As far as understand, a person can be arrested for one of two reasons:

1) an arrest warrant exists for said person
2) a police office has reason to believe (gathered evidence, etc) that said person committed a felony

I agree with you that a cop can arrest someone for a very weak reason (he looked like the suspect), but arresting the same person 62 times when it was apparent the guy worked there?

Something is up.
Both help a lot when you are sensitive to direct bright lights. Without f.lux the colors were so piercingly bright, that I sometimes felt glared when I went away from my Mac. Now, because it fits my lighting, the light brightness or intensity don't seem to change (as much). I really recommend using either one, especially when your eyes are sensitive.
"And a magical flying unicorn pony that ejaculates rainbows." When we actually get a donkey with an ice cream cornetto smooshed onto its head, wings nailed on and it's been fed laxatives and food colouring. So yeah, software requirements documents.
China: A frictionless transition to bitcoin
Context is important. Just killing people who have not harmed you isn't an answer. But if you're talking about shooting back, then an interesting conversation is possible.
One other thing from the GitLab GitHub repo (https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/README.md#i...)

"Digital Ocean 1-Click Application Install Have a new server up in 55 seconds. Digital Ocean uses SSD disks which is great for an IO intensive app as GitLab. Look for GitLab under 'Select Image' => 'Applications' when creating a droplet."
I have bad news for you if you think the packers game up with the idea of a stylized G.
Morality can be involved in strategy to survive. First and foremost, morality is just specific behavioural patterns. Behavioural patterns can be encoded in DNA, e.g you could have a genetic variation that leads you to feel maximally rewarded when you fight back after some slight on your character.

Then you might wonder, "why does/doesn't every member of the species have that variation?". A suitable answer as I have come to understand is, it depends on whether it is evolutionary stable for every one to have the variation or not have it. Plus you can expect some error margins.

For example, while every one can farm, every one can't be pillaging, a society of all pillagers cannot be stable. You can also see that in a society of all farmers, a randomly introduced pillager will have a blast while not necessarily upsetting the balance. But start introducing more pillagers and the stability will break down at some ratio of pillagers to farmers.

Please note that this is not "selecting what is good for the species", that is only a consequence.
Such utter nonsense. It's a news story about news that might be. Provide conclusive evidence and strong correlations, please.
HN needs a downvote button for articles. I think that would solve this quickly.
That's what i was thinking too... I've started making userscripts for a few sites I frequent. It's really useful for forums. Greasemonkey is awesome.

(shameless plug - http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/178736)
This is actually the first report of Cryptolocker where "Windows" was mentioned. I find it strange that most reports of malware I ever read never mention Windows.
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I'm not sure about that. P2P bloom filters were introduced to reduce bandwidth consumption for SPV clients some time ago. I think this feature can potentially leaks information about what transactions you're interested in.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0037
It's news to my mother. Half of the UK and US government are saying it's news to them. The world's press seems to think it qualifies as news.
We never make it to symbol-land in the bt, so I'm assuming it's because we never get into a debug library at all. I will make sure the js is referring to the correct version of the addon though.

My next step is probably going to be to try and figure out how to get every library to build with symbols. Thanks for the help. :D
The browser UX should only show either of:
Green - The channel is secure,
Red - Security error

Which the current system already does. How would you upgrade the UX without exposing the complexities of security to the user?

Also, why isn't there room for two authentication systems? The internet was built around redundancy. Secure systems could utilise both when they want to absolutely sure.
Well, something so dangerous that must be shut down by the government can't be boring in my eyes.

Sad to see you go, Bitcoin needs critics and contrarians.
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>The group earned revenues by offering professional website development

This is the best part of their story. Just because a person does technical work doesn't exclude them from being a moron.
Is that really true?

I believe a global passive adversary can easily use timing attacks to deanonymize tor.
Like A Rolling Stone is most definitely an original Bob Dylan song. Dylan may have been inspired by Muddy Waters at best.
Demystifying General Solicitation
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-Powered-By-Plesk: PleskWin

Does 7.5 still get security support?
"People will think our pen is a penis."

Sorry, I had to.
Twitter unleashes a new design
I was REALLY excited to see other people's hacks too!
Adi Shamir? I am pretty sure he published something :)
That's fine. My point was that for you automated testing is a litmus test that turned you against a successful group of great guys. What I do in those situations is check my presuppositions. Maybe I can learn something.

Did you ask them about their practice? Did you ask how often they had to roll back deployments, or at least take a hit on something automated testing would have caught?
It is also making sure that when the folk under you are abusing their power, they are doing it in a way that you can at least slightly, when looked at on a foggy day from a distance, possibly claim might be legitimate business.
I also have a personalized extension I use for several sites and general browsing.

For viewing news.ycombinator.com on my larger monitor, I have it add 25% left and right margins. I also have it enlarge the article titles regardless of screen size so I don't have to zoom every time.

If you already know JavaScript, then it's really convenient and easy to pick up.
Note that Adi Shamir is the S in RSA (i.e. he's a co-inventor and it's named partly after him)
The issue with money laundering in the real world isn't the technical difficulty. It's easy as pie to launder cash if you ignore the laws surrounding it.

I'd imagine that if Bitcon becomes prevalent, governments would ask you to "voluntarily" declare your "salary" wallet. And then if they spotted any sort of suspicious laundering-like activity happening from that wallet, they would very quickly obtain warrants and show up at your door asking for an explanation.
Wow, your last comment struck a chord in me. And it also reminded me of this incredible quote of A. N. Whitehead, the prominent mathematician:

"Pitiless indeed are the processes of Time and Creative Thought and Logic; they respect the convenience of none, nor the love of things held sacred. Yet their work is the increasing glory of a world, - the production of psychic light, - the growth of knowledge, - the advancement of understanding, - the enlargement of human life, - the emancipation of Man."

How about that?
Edward Snowden pic coming to D.C. buses
To the extent that humams can see the extent to which other humans have morality, genuinely having morality is a very important survial strategy. Cooperation is important in hunter gatherer bands but unlike with farmers it's fairly straightforward for people who feel imposed-upon to sneak off and start their own band. Being seen to be immoral is a good way to end up dead, either killed or from dieing along the next time you become injured or sick.
> Wow I'm surprised game development is still like that.

Some of the problems are fundamental. We're forced to use certain compressed and signed packaging schemes which aren't sanely delta compressable. We distribute in self contained blobs because not everyone has older versions lying around, or will not have a worthwhile pipe when they get to where they need to install things and will further sneakernet on their end. Even if we did assume sane deltas are possible, simple information density puts a lower bound on patch size based on how much content changed, and even that theoretical lower bound can frequently be too much and take too long for relatively "beefy" pipes. Heck, even with fiber, people will still be saving these things out to USB drives for good reason.

> 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.

That helps if the bottleneck is the server. Our perforce machines are beefy enough that our bottlenecks are frequently the client and the LAN pipe, neither of which will be helped by BitTorrent style networking. Work from home would be 100% pipe bottlenecked, as the work pipe is able to saturate it quite easily. FTP is still bottlenecked by either the developer's or the publisher's pipe, and wouldn't be helped by p2p either.

> I'm not up to date, but I'm pretty sure you can do better than Perforce's delta compression.

There's always room for incremental improvements... but not enough to beat out fiber.

> You actually want to avoid single-file compression in the repository so you can take advantage of the differential compression.

Not always possible due to format requirements. Windows 8 .appx packages, for example, are basically self contained signed .zips containing an application and all it's resources. Want to provide three builds? You just compressed and signed three different entire copies of all your built resources. For bonus points, those were .zip ed again. Insanity! But software cannot magically solve the social problems that let such designs reach the marketplace.

And since things break unless you use the exact "correct" certificate for signing, any script that generated the .appx from one set of resources would require distributing the actual private key which is a non starter...
In simple terms yes, however the dynamics of the Bitcoin market are a little different at the moment. Many people have paper wealth in Bitcoins that can't be easily converted into another currency. So would be better to just purchase services with Bitcoin rather than converting to and from other currencies.
And that is why to this day I always carry a stick of butter in my purse

That sounds a like a reference, but I don't know it. Could you explain?
Article says they "will publish a paper Sunday."
the whole event was sh- none of the employees knew solid information to tell the hackers, sign-in deadlines were extended, etc etc. good lord, even the food at the hackathon was appalling; i'm not a picky eater but i wouldn't even give that food to a homeless person outside.
"static blogging" is what people did before wordpress, drupal, et al existed...
WHAT DID I DO WRONG?? ONLY 4 DOWNLOADS
I created an app for Blackberry Z10 powered by BBM,
and its the one and only that can do that!!
Still I do not have traction!!
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