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Intel guarantees their consumer CPUs for 3 years.

http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/cs-020033.htm
Does it matter? It's not as if The Guardian bought Snowden's information in a bidding race. Snowden trusted Greenwald, who happened to be associated with The Guardian.

A newspaper should be judged on quality. If this leads to more income, all the better.
He actually touched on this towards the end of the presentation. To simplify, he states that Clojure is about data and Scala is about types. When accommodating dynamic data, it's easier to use Clojure because of the ubiquity of Maps as the primary data type and the nice handling if Null values via Clojure's Nil type. In Scala, dynamic data is dealt with using the Option Monad, and this adds layers of complication to your code.
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For the search you should add a dropdown: domain begins with keyword, domain ends with keyword & either
World of Spycraft: NSA, GCHQ hacked WoW and Xbox Live, other games
Didn't know about blitz. Looks good, thanks.
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This seems like an odd way to do music streaming, I feel like you'd be better off dumping MP3 files in a folder and taking advantage of the media streaming support in nginx or Apache or similar.

Or, you can look at psobot's implementation of a streaming music app in forever.fm (http://blog.petersobot.com/introducing-forever-fm). The short version of it is that he uses a Python generator to generate frames, passes them through LAME, and then has Tornado hand out the music one frame at a time.
The accuracy of predicted levels is amazing...
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Well, I guess I got that going for me.
Agreed on the communication side - on my end from an integrity perspective it was important to be completely up front about the situation. Also critical because of possible intellectual property concerns down the road. Note: This could cause problems including a "stop work" guideline from your employer, but I preferred to cause the problems up front so I could handle them effectively and keep things transparent.
Really? How so? I just checked, and there is a class of society called "The Feds", they were the "remnants of the US gov't federal system" and they did maintain they were a separate legal entity. Hows' my reading of the book different from yours?
At the same time, Apple openly allowed Blockchain wallet in Mac App Store. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/blockchain/id688882038
Any time I've seen an article from The Guardian (or Washington Post) in the past 7 months, it's been Snowden related. If the poll was conducted in some other newspaper, maybe the distribution would be different, and there would be more than a meager 2,200 votes.
This happens only in INDIA
List if IT infrastructure monitors
Why did you decide to call it LampNote? Seems pretty hard for someone to guess what the app is about with that name.
There are max 21 million bitcoins.

There are 7 billion people.

So there is 0.003 bitcoin per person.

So if bitcoin will one day become "THE" currency, isn't it more than logical that 1BTC will become worth more than a million dollars or something like that (not that dollars would still exist at that time, but, 1BTC would be worth as much as an average group of 333 people owns)?

Or am I misunderstanding something about currency?
Stores messages for default 2 days, and messages can be replayed. Plus distributed servers.
Absurdly High Valuations
This is just PR. If they wanted changed they would get a lobbyist to make a donation to their campaign. Done.
The courts and executive branches are always (always, always, always) going to side with the power of the government itself-- this is clearly demonstrated throughout history in every totalitarian government.

In our system of government, this situation is guaranteed by the appointment of the ranking members of the judiciary branch by the executive branch. This guarantees loyalty from the judiciary-- loyalty to party lines, which is settled on top of loyalty to the government itself. Next, the executive branch's government agency appointments are vetted by the legislative branch, which is accountable to the corporate branch. The corporate branch can then cycle members via the legislative branch into the government agencies which are then intended to regulate the corporate branch. This allows for high profit margins, which can be used to fund candidacies in the executive and legislative branches, securing their loyalty on top of the already-established loyalty from lobbying.

So you see, everything is perfectly checked and balanced-- against the voters having any political effect via the only legitimate outlet for their demands.
This post is a little light on details. They mention they're not using DNS to distribute the requests, but use a single IP instead - how is that possible?

Also, they boast that it cost only 10$ - for how long was this thing running?
Nice to see you go down this path, but it's probably too simple an insight for anybody to find interesting/useful. (Read, talk to people.)
yea, i clicked on the link from github and thought to myself, there is nothing responsive about this site. this is a bit different. Still not crazy about it.
Slightly offtopic: Her name is Chelsea Manning.
The other comment is not quite right. Suppose I break your iPad without permission. This creates a debt for the cost of replacing it and the incidental losses arising from its absence. If I offer the appropriate number of dollars in repayment, the debt is cancelled, even if the payment is refused.
The best improvement for me on this site was the ability to collapse certain sections. Personally, collapsing the flame bait comment is free section made the site immeasurably better.
Really interesting read, it's a weird feeling to 1) to see a very similar startup in the same space make "evil" choices you turned down and 2) frustratingly see them be more successful than you. I'm working on a startup in Vermont, which has a similar amount of startup acclaim as Huddersfield, competing in a space where there's about 2 million Y-Combinator-backed, ex-Googler, triple Stanford-Harvard-MIT dropout founded Silicon Valley startups with tons of money that want to build something viral that at least pulls a ton of user's data.

I would be interested to hear more of your takeaways, like what you would do differently and if you think you do have a shot at going against those well-funded giants.
Clojure has core.contracts now, which can be used to get some of the same correctness guarantees you can get from a strong type system.

https://github.com/clojure/core.contracts
Are startups pivoting too early?
This article's author must be confused. There's just no chance that the NSA decides the best way to monitor WoW is to actually put people in the game and use whatever in-game tools there are for interacting with players.

You're telling me the NSA can monitor Google and FB through side channels, but somehow Blizzard's Battle.net security stumps them?

This is the equivalent of the NSA trying to monitor Facebook by sending friend requests to suspected terrorists and posting on their wall.
I get the impression that Pollak uses whatever the task calls for -- even if its Java -- rather than being a language tribalist that is attached to one language and dumps it for another if he gets upset with the tribe of the first. Which is, really, one of the reasons he is able to provide good perspective on languages -- he uses a variety of them for real work.
Looks great. One feature that would be appealing to me is real-time price updates when the change and in indication of whether the price increased or decreased.
Yes, the Pentium 4 had such instructions; but it turns out it they are mostly useless as a modern dynamic branch predictor can
a) quickly learn any branch and adapt quickly
b) use simple metaheuristics like a loop detector or BTFN(backwards taken forward not taken) essentially backward paths are more likely to be taken
c) adaptively change the branch prediction based on the status of previous branching

any static prediction will do worse in case A on any branch which changes and will do much worse in C case while always doing worse in the B case if the branch occurs in a loop. It doesn't matter how 'smart' the static predictions are and whether they come from some guided optimization or otherwise; static predictions are worse in the vast majority of cases.

So when he talks about how he is going to build branch prediction into the ISA and load it asynchronously from memory this simply isn't going to improve performance. I might also point out that the claim that context switching hurts branch prediction performance results from the changed behavior of the branches in a new context and not from the processor not being able to reuse old predictions.

I think the Mill design isn't feasible and this is a good example of one problem: a massive new hardware investment of a cpu unit that caches and manipulates predictions in main memory while adding complexity to the internal pipeline that ends up performs demonstrably(in most cases) worse.
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ahhh, the crushing of creativity by the US Government.. America will end up in the dark ages at this pace.. gotta love government stealing everything they can get their hands on.
it is when they drip feed the world for sales instead of publishing the information freely in one lump and separately writing articles.

the whole situation stinks tbh. despite the damage to NSA and GCHQ a number of other unsavoury elements in government are really benefiting from this...
Why do you feel badly for those people? Even if they were sold a bill of goods at the outset, and they thought they were doing what was right for "the greater good," what about now? Once the authenticity of the leaks was verified, why didn't they leave immediately? Fuck them. Every last one of them still there is a bad apple.
Yeah, you're assuming each of 7 billion people will even have a share of one bitcoin. About half of the 7 billion people today live on less than $2.50 a day, and I don't see how extreme wealth inequality could get anything but worse with bitcoin.
Yeah but by and whole the talk was more about cons of Scala than pros. If your going to describe a language in terms of another you should list what both are good and bad for. It was a very biased talk that makes it sound like Clojure fixes just about everything, in reality Clojure works well in a band of problems that Scala is not well suited for.

This talk is actually better than most but in general when people compare two languages they bash one and praise the other excessively. I'd like to see an end to that trend and for speakers to start saying what a tool is meant for and what its not meant for.
This looks really cool! Would love to see where it goes. This looks like a step towards the future, to me! Nice.
Feelings vs Facts
I'll concede that getting rid of the NSA regardless of threats is within the realm of possibility. But it's very unlikely. Maybe more unlikely than world peace.
Have you tried to resize browser window?
Brief background: Locket provides advertising on your Android lockscreen. User gets a penny for every time he sees an ad on the lockscreen.

My question: Why should Locket pivot due to people trying to "scam the system"? It's like Paypal in the early days giving up because too many people are trying to hack the system.
Except, those sorta feel a bit worryingly realistic too, these days.
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It doesn't really looks like the goal is measure financial performance. I think it's kind of an interesting idea considering how odd the valuation process can be for a company that has no revenue but tons of growth.
I think the biggest problem I am reading here is the author making a bunch of assumptions about what the app does or doesn't do without even trying it out at all.
Mapping College Rapists with SHA2 & Tor
Yes! I particularly liked:

"So you worked on the first ever computer in the U.S.?"

"Yes."

"And how did you know so much about computers back then?"

"I didn't. It was the first one."
I didn't say slavery was accepted by everyone, I said it was normal and that only not it's shocking. I guess I should have said it's only shocking now to most people.

But that is besides the point. I don't want to debate about slavery, and that is not the point of the article, I used slavery only as a contrast to exemplify how people agree or disagree with something, then debate, then come to some agreement.
Explain this
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4ixxFhvY2k
vs this please
- http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/dianne-feinstein-sets-recor...

How does that work? I'm in her district, afaik software engineers vote against her.
In the UK, we have loads of broadband companies who sell service through BT phonelines. (catch: you have to pay BT for line rental, which at £13/month isn't too bad, and you do get a phone number for that.) This acts very much like the "municipal fiber network" proposed in the article - all your customer service is with who you pay your bill to, and they set your download limits and any throttling (and there are more expensive options[1] that offer larger, well-defined limits and promise not to throttle.)

Fibre connections seem to be either BT or Virgin running their own (separate) infrastructure all over the place, and you can get cable broadband if you actually want cable TV.

Personally I've stuck with ADSL2+ since, in London, that's good enough. When I move out next year, we'll see which hardware can get me the best speeds.

[1] http://idnet.net
There was no way for them to win. Individually even companies as big as this can't take on the US government and expect to win and collective action between a group like this pre Snowden would have likely either been illegal or shot down by the "aiding terrorists" action.

Someone had to leak before this became feasible.
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Theoretically right, but once you have bitcoin becoming mainstream currency, there will be different forks/alt coins that are also equally good and digital currency will be widespread instead of just bitcoin. Just a guess..
No, because you missed "by the people, for the people" and the voting part.

Do you genuinely fail to see the difference or is that comment just for the sake of that (weak) argument ?
I've given this a little thought at least: http://erikaugust.com/blog/thought-on-bitcoin
I'd love to see this article for web developers as well. The new iOS version is reducing the gap between native and web apps in many ways.
The scare stories in the press seem to be going the other way - accusing the SNP of planning to allow mass immigration post Independence:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/444422/Prepare-the-border-p...
There was. I remember signing a petition as a kid in a school in a country across the world from SA.
Tech. Review has a hype problem across all its range of coverage.
What should Snowden have done? Filed a complaint with the grievance committee, and then gone about his merry way? Don't be naive, even these bombshells are not enough to shake most people out of their stupors.

> I'll note that Americans my age and older (well above the modal or median age of HN participants) have multiple sources of information through which to form opinions on this issue, and don't rely solely on governmental statements or influence from political leaders to make up our minds on these issues.

What is your point?
If reporters understood the law of conservation of energy they'll be more skeptical of energy solution claims, regardless of which form it takes.
Are you saying this isn't an investment opportunity, or that structural problems with the capital markets will mean that this investment opportunity will be ignored?
In Kafka, topics are (partitioned) streams of messages. Consumers of a topic keep track of their "cursor" in that stream.

EDIT: should add that morkbot had a great link too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6874607
http://www.quora.com/RabbitMQ/RabbitMQ-vs-Kafka-which-one-fo...
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I was running the engineering group of a VC backed firm when the side project a couple of my people were working on nights & weekends got some great press coverage. By the time it hit TC the Engineers' names were there along with a quote about how their work was supported by their "day job" ... Our VCs took notice and our boilerplate employee PIIA was trotted out to claim rights to the side project. The project was completely unrelated to our line of business BTW...but it didn't matter as the VCs smelled IP value in the press exposure.

I fought the good fight against some silly assertions such as "They could not have built this in so little time without overlapping working hours" but lost the battle when the VCs pointed to the timestamps of some support/feedback comments posted by one of my Engineers on the project's website. He had written those and posted during working hours while sitting in the office of said "day job"

Project squashed, all the IP was rolled up and shelved. It was a bad day.

TL;DR these clauses are typically not enforced because your side project is typically viewed as worthless. If on the other hand your project is seen as a source of value... tread carefully.
Most important question not answered: were the Alliance or Horde?
The harder the problem, the worse it's going to be to calculate it on the fly.
IMO, market cannot be predicted by just drawing lines. So, there's some kind of outstanding luck or magic.
("If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?")

I wonder that of myself all the time. I don't have any medical problems other than the tragedy of living inside my own fucked up head.

I find the cheap ways of getting rich untenable (abusing users, SEO affiliate ad crap, stealing personal information, facebook viral shitfests), and the hard ways are too much for my unconnected self to tackle alone (remaking credit card processing, remaking flight finding, anything requiring network effects to get off the ground).

But, for now, I'm not homeless and I have a view of Manhattan from my window. It could be worse.
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There are many DSP system that have this (also, lots of attention to prefetching the right stuff). Compilers can pretend to get it right for you, or you just dive into tha sssembly if you want to save money and buy a slower CPU.
> They rely on the static scheduling ...

Or run-time profiling.
1000 students volunteer in the largest social network tracking experiment
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I think it does a pretty good job of bringing the identity of the paper edition to the web. The spacing seems a bit tight but the typography is decent.
Get rid of timeouts! This is an immense PITA.
Instead of moderation in all things, it tries to be extreme in many opposing directions. This doesn't work as well.

I remember when they loved all kinds of patents without question except for one regular columnist that once had an article titled "Patents Kill." It would be a lot better if they were a little more suspicious of patents while not bothering at all to employ that guy.
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How they are able to route forth and back >10M packets with a single IP?
You can use * in a search to fine tune the results. Also, the length parameter in the URL is editable.
Out of curiosity, have you heard of anyone being blacklisted? That does worry me quite a bit.
I wonder about the financial impact on gaming companies once users get creeped out by this. Nice job, NSA.
I never really understand the challenges of web scalability - the hard problem I see is bandwidth. Distributing work, other than the lag in communication maybe? Being clever about bandwidth usage in some special ways?

Why isn't it just bandwidth limited? throwing data around aside from crossing the network layer is extremely fast and easy... surely distributing the load is even a secondary problem to being efficient with the bandwidth, since efficient load distribution seems also like it should be network bandwidth (not, e.g. clock cycle, memory, disk access...) limited.

1 million anythings a second is a pretty low number in many computing environments - this is much less than (about two orders of magnitude) the pixel throughput on the monitor you are reading this on, as a trivial example.
Can't wait for Apple to start demanding 30% of all Bitcoin transactions performed on their platform.
If you want competition, stop letting local governments make "deals" with the ISP's to bring such and such Internet or service to that area. Almost always that ensures the company will get a monopoly in that area.

It's precisely for this reason why I'm against states making deals with ISP's even if it means bringing gigabit fiber to their areas. Will it still be fast enough 10-15 years later? Because you can bet they aren't going to upgrade it anymore after they get their local monopoly. I'm sure 1-10 Mbps seemed super-fast 10 years ago, too, when they made the first deals from which they got their current monopolies.
My first C++ book, 'A Computer Science Tapestry', had a page dedicated to her that has stuck with me since I read it in highschool.

Grace Hopper "was a proponent of innovative thinking and kept a clock on her desk that ran counterclockwise to show that things could be done differently. Although very proud of her career in the Navy, Hopper had little tolerance for bureaucracies, saying:

It’s better to show that something can be done and apologize for not asking permission, than to try to persuade the powers that be at the beginning.”
"Computer performance is characterized by the amount of useful work accomplished by a computer system compared to the time and resources used." --wikipedia

Is there a different definition I'm missing? I think, a car can be "fast" and take too much fuel, but (in my book) a programming language cannot be "great for performance" while being bad at resource usage.
> "Still not crazy about it."

It worked very well from here. Went down to 100px wide and whole site fit in neatly.

edit: fixed wrong quoted sentence.
The inline "reply" link doesn't show up until a while after a comment has been posted; but you can simply use the permalink for the comment, there you will always find a reply box.
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It would be trivial to brute force the alleged perpetrator's names, simply by running SHA2 on all students. This is not helped by adding a unique salt, because then no matching can be done between incidents.

I applaud the ideas and ideals, and I believe this has the potential to be a Good Thing(tm). I'd really like to see clever and knowledgeable people get together to make this happen, and the ideas outlined here are at least a start.
Congratulations to the Kafka team! Their work is always extremely impressive.
That's an actual leaking strategy: if you slowly release those documents, it will be talked about more, and more will be written about it. It also give more time to journalist to analyse it, and debate those documents, as it's not a simple to analyse...
He hasn't said how this would be relevant to the Mill.
Can you explain what this notation is: p^\mu = m u^\mu

What's the backslash, is that m times u or μ, is that exponentiation, which are vectors and which are scalars?
In the UK? Im surprised he got that many.