skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No! We aren't talking about every property ever. Not your backyard, not your car and not your water bottles. Valuable properties. Nobody cares about @d7a8df74a98d or www.fe5461d77vvc.com. We're talking about crumbling buildings near a national monument, or in the technology field, m.com or @N. Domain squatting is awful. Is it genuinely that unintuitive to you?!

And if seizing it is too "communist" for you, then enormous taxes should be close enough to socialism.
There are no statistics, but almost everyone use them. Facebook is very popular in Iran. Even there were some debates in parliament and government about not filtering it.
I did not know that but I'm not surprised.
I swear I was also thinking of inventing a JSON-based replacement for the IMAP just last week.
It needs some driver modifications, but they are not huge. It still only supports 3 or so of the most common cards on FreeBSD though.
Do they license their course materials under an open source license? If so, other parties could easily redistribute the material.

If not, I guess we once again feel the pain of universities selling out their knowledge to commercial gatekeepers.
Is there any better way to change someone's mind, to change their fundamental mode of thought, to alter their perceptions and manner of reason than to educate them?

Here's an even better question: if your enemy thinks like you, talks like you, acts like you, shares your values and views the world the way you do, is he your enemy? Can he be your enemy? Why would he be your enemy?

Let's consider a central question.You espouse a belief in freedom, a nation built on liberty. Your enemy denies this, proclaims you a tyrant, and endeavors to make war against you. How do you respond?

One method undercuts your enemy's message, reaffirms your core values, and has the potential to alter and modify your enemy so that he is predisposed to be united with you.

The other affirms his message, strengths his position, and emboldens those who follow him.

This leads to the last question: what is your objective? Is it victory, or something else?

What better path to victory then to alter the mind of your enemy until he is incapable of fighting you?

Our educational assets ought to therefore be shared. To sensor them in the name of security is foolish.
> Here's the very interesting story behind the patents.

> http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/31/why-google-might-be-going-t...

That link is definitely worth a few minutes. Thanks.
I think that's what he alludes to with "hard work" and "not as fast". If you invested huge amounts of capital and campaigning, bought advertisements, setup protests, got on the news, etc. etc. perhaps enough people might notice. Doesn't mean it's effective to write a letter.
Interesting step, but the decisions taken around concurrency seem to assume small-scale, single-user use cases only. I would be the first to admit I haven't given this enough thought yet, but to me it seems that a global lock and MODSEQ make distributed usage etc. very difficult. Isn't this a step backwards?
Do you really need to include racism in your obvious fraud warning?
I almost always use truecrypt to erase my disks completely when I'm re-purposing them or before throwing them away or giving them to someone else.

You never know where they are going to end-up years later.

I just bang randomly on my keyboard when Truecrypt asks for a password and then let it overwrite the drive. It's pretty fast too and works the same way on all platforms.
Make an accounting for being Tired of Life, for lacking the finances for longer lifespans, for cognitive and physical decline... blah blah blah.

Young people always think we want to live longer. Somehow, our minds end up changing by the time we become old people.
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I agree. This has been happening for years and it drives me mad. There are individuals all over the world worth as much as icelands gdp and there are small towns in china with a greater population
Do you mean Godaddy and Paypal should apologize? I don't think twitter did anything wrong yet. They are just looking into what happened.
I wish I could travel back in time to the early 1990 and patent "a method for making profit by buying and/or producing products and selling them at a higher price.... on the internet."
Jb’s story about how he nearly lost his Twitter handle
Government has tried blocking all anti-censorship technologies, so normal PPTP and L2TP VPN services will not work. VPN vendors now offer their own software which I assume uses non-conventional ports and settings to circumvent it. But VPNs are not the only solution. Most people use software like Psiphon or Freegate to access the internet. I don't know about general population, but everyone I know uses some kind of anti-censorship solution.

Facebook is censored in Iran, yet it is very popular. If you want to roughly estimate how many people circumvent censorship on a daily basis, just find out how many Iranians actively use Facebook. I guess it would be possible to find a number with Graph Search.
Memory / Cache subsystems are generally where ARM chips fall down (in terms of throughput), and Intel has several patents on cache hierarchies that AMD is licensed to use.

So it's technically possible that AMD could build ARM chips that are a lot more competitive (FLOPS-wise) with Intel than other manufacturers can.
You dont really want to buy a 25W SoC and then blow a load more power on the networking. It might be expected you use 802.3ap.
I believe he read the article.
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Cognitive dissonance isn't much of a problem. The problem is lack of education. You have to know about the ridiculous things the US does in order to experience cognitive dissonance.
The attacker was hired and once he finished the job he had no reason to be mean to the guy or not help him to improve his security. Maybe he even is a security expert that was in need of a bit extra cash and picked up this job.
Very very common, I can say +90% of students already use them in our university. others universities may not be any different.
> if your enemy thinks like you, talks like you, acts like you, shares your values and views the world the way you do, is he your enemy? Can he be your enemy? Why would he be your enemy?

Sure. Previous to the 20th century, most wars were fought over control over resources, land, and prestige.
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>If someone is 'the protector of freedom'

>'the protector of freedom' is someone that doesn't boycott Syria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Not my argument, what are you even arguing against?

If I were you, I'd question myself why I create strawmen, am I interested in the truth, or am I guided by misplaced nationalism?
Well most of their courses are free (as in free beer) while they have recently been expanding their "paying only" courses catalog.
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http://hintjens.com/blog:16
> The one thing it would lack in the end is native performance.

I'm gonna wait before I make a judgement on that one. Certainly at the moment HTML/JS solutions lack performance, but who knows what Chrome/OS/fancy pants integration Google will come up with eventually.
Or we could drop little stuffed drone dolls, so kids could grow up with their very own pet drone and not be scared by them. Pretty soon the kids will have nothing but endearing things to say about their friends in the sky.

"My pet drone watches over me as I sleep..."
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Well, to be pedantic, most Django projects have a WSGI file, which is the single entry point of the application.

(The WSGI file is part of your application code, but it typically just calls django.core.wsgi.get_wsgi_application(), which returns an instance of django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler, which is the entry point into the Django routing/despatch framework)
Note that the compat mode may mean that you are miscounting IE8 users in IE7 compat mode as IE7 if you are doing a naive user-agent detection (I only mention it because I did and started blocking IE8 users!)

Both will emit "MSIE 7.0" in the user-agent, but IE8 will have Trident/4 while IE7 lacks any such token. MSIE 11 does away with "MSIE" in the user-agent altogether.

There's a X-UA-Compatible header (and meta variable) you can emit to ask for no compat checks.
Thanks for your feedback and judgement. It's somehow coherent to what I thought evaluating it. While everything appears to be nice and well thought I kept asking myself: Will learning all that stuff (as well as Spring & other Java bloat) be really worth it? And if it is: Who develops in Grails anyway, will I find developers for my neat little Web 2.0 Apps?

So I will have a closer look at Sinatra / Spark which really seem a great approach to develop small-medium web apps. Previously I had my doubts about their capabilities (it appears too simple), but seeing the traction those technologies have might convince me otherwise.
> Sanctions which are directly targeted against weapons are pretty obvious -- don't sell chemical weapons to middle-eastern dictators with a history of gassing parts of their own population (oops, Iraq and Libya...).

Interesting, wasn't the US an ally of Iraq in the past, and completely closed their eyes on the gassing of Iranian populations during the Iraq-Iran war, as well as the gassing of Kurds living in Iraq ? Should the US sanction themselves? :)
Doesn't using Medium also coutn as accoutn activity?
I helped change a law in Italy despite not having a lot of money or "knowing anyone". Myself and others worked on it on and off for about two years before getting a foot in the right door.

http://www.governo.it/Notizie/Presidenza/dettaglio.asp?d=690...

We're not really satisfied with the new law, but it is a small step in the right direction, and we continue to work to improve things:

http://srlfacile.org/

It's kind of a minor issue, and low hanging fruit, but still, I'm proud of it.

You are right on about writing letters. Go ahead and do it, but know that it's not enough.

Look at the civil rights movement in the US. I'm glad they didn't just decide that, having written a letter or two, and not having seen any change, that it was impossible and to give up.
The first digit of a credit card number identifies the type of company the issuer is, e.g. 1 is an airline, 3 is a travel agency, 4 and 5 are credit card companies, 7 is an oil company. The final digit is a checksum. Two things about this baffle me: 1) that websites feel the need to have a dropdown to identify what sort of card you have instead of just figuring it out and 2) why they need to ping it off the issuer's servers to detect you've entered an invalid number e.g. a typo.
Yes and they are really likely to also have expensive subscriptions to a US magazine for nursing HR departments.

Idiot.
well, http://plaintextoffenders.com exists - someone should make creditcardoffenders.com .
I never get that. Why do you make this distinction. Either patents is a good system for all goods or it isn't. What does it make a good system for everything else execpt pharmacy and software?

Dont't get me wrong, I am for abolishing all patents. Even if, say 80% of the patent were unimbigiously justified, the bureaucracy and costs it introduces are tremendous.

I would loved to know the percentage to the total budget of the legal departments of companies like MS, Google and Apple
they can use Bitcoin
if you take someone else's money, you work for them. and if you work for free, you're a fucking fool.
Use https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7141532 instead.
Is it possible to write a script to scan all the internet (or at least the popular websites) and determine which ones are blocked?

If you can find or make a list of websites you want to scan, you can script it. The biggest problem is doing it in a way that doesn't bring you to the attention of those doing the blocking.

1. Where can I find a list of all domain names, top 1000, top 100000?

Alexa's "top 1,000,000" list (~10.2 MB download) is at http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip

2. Is it possible to conclusively determine censorship from headers only or do I have to load the whole page and compare HTML code with a sample? Bandwidth is very expensive here.

It depends on the method used to block you from visiting a website.

If DNS-based blocking is used, you can use very small DNS lookups to identify whether or not a website is blocked — all of the hostnames of blocked websites will probably resolve to the same IP address. (You can check this with "nslookup www.website.com" in Windows or "host www.website.com" on Linux, OS X, etc.) If this method works, it's probably the best way — DNS requests are less likely to be logged than HTTP requests, and DNS requests and responses are small.

If the blocking uses a transparent proxy instead of forged DNS records, you could use HTTP HEAD requests and match against the "Server" header in the reply:

Server: Apache/2.2.12 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.12 OpenSSL/0.9.7d mod_wsgi/3.2 mod_perl/1.29 PHP/4.4.1

The software listed in that "Server" header is terribly old, and I doubt you'll find any other web server on the Internet with that exact combination of software versions. So that could be a way to identify the server serving the "website blocked" page without downloading entire pages, but it might draw attention to you if you do it for thousands of websites.
That is an extremely interesting philosophy. So how does this work? If I don't like somebody and shoots him, I can challenge the notion of manslaughter/murder in court?
Personally I do not understand the hard grudge against Cuba. My girl friend met a car mechanic from Cuba temporarily living our country who really struggled to make a living and trying to ship home some money for their family. Yes communism is shit bad, that doesn't mean we should shield them from our culture and knowledge. I think opening up our culture to these countries as much as possible makes for the maximum possibility of influencing the local people to want change.

The other countries on that list I'm more skeptical too especially when they are not fully peaceful as knowledge can be miss used.
Been there too. Here is the lesson to learn:
If you got funded and have to pay invoices, employees (including yourself), never hope for more investment. Shrink and - if necessary - finally close your business before (!!!!) you run out of money. This is true for startups, businesses, household budget, pocket money, girlfriends (hrmmm), etc.

Startup is a high risk, the statistical odds are against you. Investors know that. If they see you fail, they will not tell you, they will simply stop to invest (and may be think, you will go on to save their a...). Hope that you may find new investment means, you did not start looking early enough to know the odds.

I (we) were at the same position in 2001 when the internet bubble burst. I am happy to report, that our business needed heavy investment (like yours did) and it became clear to us, that there will be no more investment for internet business in the foreseeable future. So we did shut down with money on the bank, paid our debts, bought out our gadgets from the company and divided the money that we paid for the gadgets among the shareholders (us :o).
Both of us founders saw the startup as a business not as our baby. So we were able to look at it from a kind of outside perspective. This was not the reason why it failed, though, but it lifted us at eye level with the investors.

The way we handled it allowed us to book it as a very interesting experience. We were immediately able to look forward.

But, here is the positive side: You got investments (a lot even), you survived for 2 years, which is great. Now get together with your co-founders in a nice place, drink a bottle or two of good wine and analyze your mistakes.

Sorry to say this now that it is late for you. But next time ...
New York Times fails to redact NSA spy agent's name
(I didn't know that). That's fine, but there are just SO many other companies that provide the same service...
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Unlike in the US, where the government doesn't spy on the citizens, everybody has free access to education, free universal healthcare, guaranteed housing and... oh wait.
Does a US citizen need the government’s permission to return to the US?
Not just that - a young America ignored foreign authors copyright in publishing. Film making took off in Southern California in order to escape the Edison company's protection of its film patents.

Intellectual property protection became important to America once it had leapfrogged other nations by ignoring their rights. Which is what makes the current stance on international intellectual property a little hypocritical, especially when it comes to generic drugs in third world countries.
You can change things, but sometimes it's better to walk around the brick wall or climb over it, instead of having a conversation with the wall asking it to please move out of the way for you.

[Edit: Can't reply to message below so I'll clarify here - my intent was that instead of arguing with politicians, they could consider options that wouldn't even involve politicians. Coursera could close their US business and move to a country that does not have the same restrictions. Doing so may also help persuade US politicians that their policies are having the reverse impact of what they want.]
Sounds good. Look forward to hearing from you.
I don't know about it, by personal experience I think americans have good education.

I'd hazard to say that the median american experiences a media echo chamber.

That's not special, all countries I lived in do that. But they usually don't delve too deep in doublespeak.
Coursera advising and/or helping sanctioned individuals sounds like the kind of thing that would blow up in their faces and make the overall situation worse, not better.
These stories are starting to scare me...

I've already started using 1Password but I'm now considering closed some accounts and calling some of these services to ensure they never give out my information for password resets and such... Scary stuff...
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> P.S. Please stop using Google Code.

Why?
Might piss off the attacker pretty bad, though. Not saying that's wrong, just that resulting shenanigans might be a little asymmetric.
This isn't very nice thing to do... Deny education to people who don't have any power to do changes in their country. Let's keep them stupid, now they will know how to play with us. Great attitude.
What if your next in-person meeting was like a conference call...
The icloud guy also was (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-hona...).
Anyone know when it's going to be released for all developers?
I'd like to start playing around with this as soon as possible.
I still have an old ThinkPad with a 500MHz Pentium III and 128Mb of RAM in it. It has FreeBSD on it (4.4).

It still feels really fast if you don't use X.
If he was trying to shake down someone who had a legitimate claim to it, yeah. Otherwise he's just a speculator, not a squatter. Or an opportunist maybe.
Most of the userbase.
On the flip side, just a short while ago, I tried writing a package that handles a cluster of remote peers[1]. Want to know what I learned?

I'm having flashbacks to the last level of the Stripe CTF :) Have you tried it? It's a little late now but it's still up I think. It has discussion of distributed consensus and distributed logs (related to your solution above) and links to a few interesting articles/implementations, including one in Go (go-raft). Quite educational if you're a beginner at that sort of thing (as I am) - you might find it interesting.
It’s worth setting up two-factor authentication on any service that supports it: Google, Facebook and Github spring to mind.
Well that's fine as no one should be browsing the web on one of those.
Disclaimer: I work for Coursera as a Software Engineer.

We have already lifted restrictions for Syrians as the OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) has a general license for educational content (Syria General License No. 11A) issued. We are working with the State Department and OFAC for licenses or exemptions for the other affected countries and we hope to get the remaining blocks lifted soon.

More info at http://blog.coursera.org/post/74891215298/update-on-course-a...
Apache ignores access control when using FastCGI
Clock speed is only relevant when comparing the same CPU.

I have been having this argument since the 1980s in the school playground when kids with Spectrums would claim their 4Mhz Z80s were faster than 2Mhz 6502s...
Disclaimer: I work for Coursera as a Software Engineer.

We have already lifted restrictions for Syrians as the OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) has a general license for educational content (Syria General License No. 11A) issued. We are working with the State Department and OFAC for licenses or exemptions for the other affected countries and we hope to get the remaining blocks lifted soon.
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> Young people always think we want to live longer. Somehow, our minds end up changing by the time we become old people.

No they don't. Old people might say they wish they'd died younger, but their actions show otherwise.