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> In a phone interview today, Prince emphasized that he has seen no indication that actual malicious packets are being sent out of Cloudflare’s network from the dozens of booter service Web sites that are using the service. Rather, he said, those booter services are simply the marketing end of these operations.

This is how they justify hosting *booter.com. Personally, I don't see a big distinction. If you weren't hosting the frontend site, there would be no malicious packets going out from other people's networks. These booter sites attack each other all the time, so without DDOS protection they'd take of shutting each other down for us :)
Please post this in /r/BasicIncome on reddit. Its a wonderful post.
This. Software as augmentation or preparation for human interaction, just as books have been (and are still).
This is awesome. We didn't anyone did this before?
I think your statement is more true of CentOS than Ubuntu. Many Ubuntu server installations choose it because it is free and reputedly easy, and pass up CentOS because it doesn't have a lot of selling points that appeal directly to non-Linux users, nor RHEL because it costs money.

Also your comment reminds me of an argument against stealing music on the Internet, lol.
After enough time spent reading hexdumps you get used to it, and then all of a sudden big-endian feels really backwards.
The problem is, the whole part of the article was post-scarcity. You identify that earth resources are scarce. What if they're not? What if all of our energy is renewable? What if we close the loop for mined materials so we recycle in-system and no longer consume additional materials from the earth? If we're wired around scarce resources, we will need to adapt when scarcity no longer occurs.

Today's Atlas would say, "Give me enough energy and mass, and I'll move the universe." With enough energy, anything is possible.
If you are literally having zero fun doing something for a sustained period of time you should probably stop doing that. Startups are hard work but there should be small victories along the way that should be fun. There should be fun in the experience of creating something. There should be fun in sharing what you've built with people. If you're not getting any of that and the environment is completely toxic something is probably wrong.
What the GNU/Linux community encourages is clearly not being useful for making lots of people use PGP.
I'll just leave this here without comment for the open minded:

http://people.iarc.uaf.edu/~sakasofu/pdf/two_natural_compone...
IMHO, the most important thing for an entrepreneur is to mentally decouple his/her self esteem and feelings of self worth from his/her project:

You are not your startup!

A girlfriend told me that a long time ago, but unfortunately I didn't listen to her at the time. It is a common pattern for smart young folks (overachievers) accustomed to positive feedback from the external world to "feed" on external validation. Fuck that! Your value as a human is in your (almost) infinite capacity to grow, adapt, build, and love---not because of the js/py/ru code you can produce or the money you plan to amass.

Beware of bosses, VCs, and project managers who feed your need for external validation. You don't need anyone to tell you you're good.

Basically what I'm saying is hustle, put in the hours, kick ass, but also CHILL. There's no rush to prove anything. Rome wasn't built in a day. Easy does it. There's an old saying that goes "The bitch in haste gives birth to blind pups"[1].

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[1] http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/database/gen_html/a0000...
Absolutely- I agree wholeheartedly. Motivation to learn is the raw material that a good teacher can induce forma student and use to prompt learning. Software can be a part of increasing how often this process happens.
Didn't you just answer your question with the question? There are so many of the same kinds of apps because everybody came up with the same idea.
Just apply a simple rule of thumb to this situation - if someone has a doctorate and insists in being referred to by "Dr." then they're probably not confident in what they're doing. Nearly every place that Roy Spencer is mentioned he is referred to as Dr. Roy Spencer.

The one exception to this is "humorous" situations. For example, when writing trite complaint letters or on a frequent flier memberships.
Roy Spencer's ancestor, Easter Island 1720: "The graphs that show the number of sizable trees on the island going to zero in just a few years are OBVIOUSLY bullshit!"
Excellent point - I think working at a regular job is important to appreciate what you might be getting out of a startup and what kind of expectations you should be having going in.
I'm only referring to this article where they make that claim and a brief google of other news articles where they make the same claim. It's quite possible the journalists have all made factual errors - I can't find the indictment either but I just assumed indictments aren't usually public.
The tell is the angry sarcasm, which releases chemicals of pleasure in the brains of the already-convinced, but turns off anyone else.
I'm curious about what you think is a way to actually get to work on what's fun. I know fun is a personal definition, but as I'm starting to build a product myself and I do find it fun and I'm doing it because I like it being fun, I hear this warnings and it kind of makes me think.

Of course I'm afraid I will fail, but I also don't think working at an office is fun, unless you get to work on a cool project and there's no politics (yeah right..) or something like that. But then if building a product yourself, on your own terms, with your own hands, etc, is not fun, then what is? And I don'mean to be rhetorical or sarcastic. I'm asking seriously.

With a lot of comments along the same lines as how hard it is because in the end it's business, what does it mean to build a product for fun, but where the business part is either not the most important part, or even present at all?

Would that be like building a product and giving it away, so it's actually only for fun?
Energy production is the main 'human contribution' (I think?).

Are you really saying, that the Energy industry is a starving baby?

They are the richest companies in the world, they can easily afford ALL of the changes that have been suggested, but it isn't about 'affordability' it is about profitablity.

Making things more efficient, and encouraging more self/clean power generation runs contrary to Energy companies profit motive, so of course they will resist it and even run marketing to say that the world will be worse off if it is more efficient and "cleaner".

And as a collective we have and continue to be stupid enough to buy into their narrative.
Author here. Thanks for the kind words. Udacity's pivot is a shot across the bow for Startups that can't figure out the difference between teaching and media. Their coaches are a good start- step in the right direction. If they had perfected that with academics they might not have had to pivot.
Even in math, this isn't really the case. THere are numerous reasons a student might arrive at an incorrect answer. I've seen systems that provide specific feedback on certain anticipated errors, but tailoring the remediation to individual students is just as hard as teaching the material successfully in the first place. It's often not just a case of "oh, I did this one step wrong", but a deeper issue of misunderstanding the abstraction. We haven't mastered bridging that gap with real-life teachers and tutors, let alone automated software.
Surely, that can't be true
How do you measure the uncertainty in predictive models? From my physics I remember that measurements have uncertainty. And then you propagate the uncertainty into derived values with differential equations. But how do you ascertain the uncertainty in a computer model? Did the original graphs actually have error bars?
Sorry you've been harassed like that. I agree that I would have a hard time dealing with that kind of situation.

I think having a strong web presence myself means that the work of any would-be trolls would struggle to make it onto the front page -- though I do ask that would-be trolls reading this not try to prove me wrong, thank you. :)
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Since commenters have already mentioned Tor, Freenet, Twister, and Tim Berners-Lee's idea of re-decentralizing the web: https://github.com/redecentralize/alternative-internet
It could be but that would be an awfully cynical view. Sometimes it is okay to give people the benefit of the doubt.

I am interested to hear more about what you have heard about. Doing what you're suggesting seems like a fool's errand.
Most DDoS attacks send the majority of their traffic from unsuspecting and unwilling hosts. Hopefully, as these patterns become more and more well known the weaknesses that allow that to happen will be increasingly less common.
Roy Spencer is a delusional f*c$wit.

I don't say that lightly. I tried having long conversations with climate fake sceptics, and they are totally refractory to reality and its measurement.
with electronic voiting the wrong question is often asked...

"How can we build a fraud proof system"

While it is a nice ideal, it is not realistic...

The real question should be

"How can we build a system that has less fraud than todays system"

That is far more achievable, today no one really knows how rampant voter fraud is, if at all, due to the nature of the outmoded, non-accountable system the trust is placed with corruptible humans at the polling places, I personally believe that fraud is rampant.
You can easily make music in software. Download Cockos Reaper and add some free VST synths. Its MIDI editing features aren't superb, but they'll do the job.
Just to be sure that one of them isn't corrupted.
"Security
Please use at your own risk."

So you predicted what their documentation says on the homepage?
Happiness is a precondition, not a goal
This looks really great, and I had fun playing around with it.

One small thing that stuck out: there isn't any way to make a newline. You have to make an entirely new comment. Or is there some shortcut key I'm missing? On a lot of text editors, it's Shift + Enter.
Oh, no. Both of us already knew the truth. The anecdotes are just for color.
True in the broadest sense I suppose. I'm personally fine with driving a stake into the ground at "the consensus opinion of scientific experts".

That's a different type of bias than driving the stake into a specific conclusion because the other stake moves. Frequently.

To be fair, I think this only because it agrees with my pro-reason bias.
Fun fact: if you are running tor and you see the tor exit node and your IP you are doing it wrong! You are leaking DNS requests. Tor goes to great lengths informing you that something is wrong in the logs. This is not thanks to edns, it is thanks to your inability to use the software correctly. Please see:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Preventing...
> life’s too short to wear hot pants.

Yes and now get back into your comfort zone.

Sorry, to be harsh but I just couldn't figure out why you left whom--YC, your startup, your cofounders? And what's all about this Moleskine? Happy about any clue or tl;dr
I assumed it was that the masterminds were going to be done over Google hangouts but I could be wrong.
It would be redundant to include error bars. Each path should be representing a random draw from the space of possible futures.
Sure, but ONLY for premium users. Important distinction as everyone I know who uses this application, uses the free version.
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The session ID serves as a key for a server key-value storage which holds the "session data". It carries absolutely no authentication info, unless implemented in the client code (like an IP check).

Reading out the SID is possible e.g. with injecting a JavaScript that reads document.cookie value.
Link bait for CDN services
There's a language where `{} + {}` does something useful? Or is the complaint that it should `TypeError`?
I knew a brilliant math professor who was a skeptic based on his statistical analysis, but did not have any interest in trying to influence policy there.
I would think the most fun thing to do would be to join a startup that's doing something that gets you excited, that already has an awesome team, that's already validated the product and the market. At that point it's still a lot of work but at least you know what you're getting into, there's less banging your head against the wall, and you're just helping to make the rocket ship go.
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I'd rather the floor be much higher than just slightly above gunpoint. Like you mentioned, there are some people who don't care, and that's sad. Chances are that a voluntarily-working group of people have the floor much higher than "slightly above gunpoint".

Also, you appear to be logged into a 4-day-old throwaway account. Is that intentional?
You're right. We chose not to allow hand-wrapped paragraphs because the newlines have no effect on the resulting rendered HTML. In some cases, it will allow newlines (lists, blockquotes).
I've read it. I have a copy of the PDF on my hard drive.

I called out Meetup's policy explicitly as a privacy problem, and I'm not arguing for reduced overall privacy over any aspect of someone's life they decide they'd prefer to keep private.

What exactly did you mean for me to learn from reading that paper?
Xubuntu is just a set of packages for Ubuntu. I use Ubuntu LTS and one of the first things I do on a new install is sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop .

Now, if you're on RHEL then Xubuntu would be a bit of a leap, but just installing xfce on Ubuntu is going to be a lot more painful than installing xubuntu-desktop which has a little more functionality out of the box.
I'm 36, and that's definitely been true for me as well. I feel like the next 18 years will be much more productive, and have a far greater impact, than the previous 18.
Agreed that lectures need to die.
But also keep in mind that the name in question is a known alias of someone they are watching for. That means that any expectation you have of an ethnolinguistic connection to the individual goes out the window as well, since the individual has total control over it.
Ask HN: Stripe switching to two-day transfers
Setup a strip account got this email:

We're excited to let you know that we've sped up how quickly you'll receive your money with Stripe.

It used to be the case that there was a seven day delay between when you charged a customer and when funds arrived in your bank account. We've reduced that delay so you'll be paid just two days later.

If you'd like to be switched back to your original seven-day transfer cycle for any reason, please let us know! We are more than happy to answer any questions you may have about this change.

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Anyone know anything about this? Would love to get this setup on my other Stripe accounts.
I use bittorrent sync to keep sublime text synced across my machines, works amazingly well.
Flappy Bird will be the biggest merchandise for free in 2014. There will be more Flappy Bird teddies than Angry Birds and nobody needs to be paid.
It is nice to see such innocence in this day and age. Regardless of whether or not we can manage to do anything about the problem, the fear people have is the vast amounts of power and wealth we are transferring to select groups of people based on political considerations, rather than market forces. Maybe we can select the perfect "leaders" to do this job justly. Prudence would dictate that you should imagine your political opposites coming into this position. So the worst case scenario is that we enrich a small minority, who are likely to stir up untold strife and suffering in wielding their unearned power. And we still don't solve the problems.
At a guess, some searching of the kid's handle will probably lead to a Facebook page or something else that links back to his real identity, and something else related led to the father.
The fundamental problem with any post-scarcity economy is that it presumes a world in which resources aren't fundamentally constrained. It's been argued that this is in fact one of the limitations of orthodox / neoclassical economics, in that it assumes that unlimited growth it possible.

That's a view that's championed, interestingly, by both the far Left (Marxist and Socialist economists) and the Right (business lobbies, various cornucopian ideologues, putatively much of the Koch-backed propogandasphere, and their Libertarian sycophants). Curious bedfellows.

I've only recently run across an essay of Garrett Hardin's (of "Tragedy of the Commons" and "Lifeboat Ethics", with whom I've long been acquainted), "The Feast of Malthus" (http://www.garretthardinsociety.org/articles_pdf/feast_of_ma...) which explores this idea further. He notes specifically:

I think that a single overarching view accounts for these and many other invectives put forward by Marxists and liberals during the past century and a half: this is the tightly held denial of limits in the supply of terrestrial resources. Friedrich Engels, Marx's collaborator and financial supporter, asserted baldly that "The productivity of the land can be infinitely increased by the application of capital, labour and science."

Much of the essay continues on to discuss population. The upshot being: you can accept unconstrained consumption (but limits on population), or unrestricted procreation, with severe restrictions on individual consumption.

There is no universal freedom.
Seems to be standard for the majority of the internet population, not just trolls.

Further, as Tycho points out:

> What this article describes I would simply call 'bullying' or anonymous bullying or in extreme cases harassment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7242130

Trolling is about provoking your enemy into revealing himself. It's not just walking up to someone and saying something rude or stupid. But that's about the most the majority of people can handle.
I'm totally with you on the prerequisite-graph approach for learning. I've been thinking for quite some time about how to best achieve this...

Assume the graph of concepts (nodes) and the prerequisites are known (edges)[1]. The system would also have to know (or infer) the current knowledge state of the student. Once this is in place though, you'd be able to type:

apt-get learn mechanics

and the system will "download" all the prerequisites:

functions quadratic-equation calculus calculus mechanics ...

To achieve this will require a lot of work: collect existing content, produce new content, organize, create graph (probably need multiple levels: concepts,topics,subjects), create website, etc.

There is also an issue with language and level of explanation. You can't use the same language for 6th graders and 1st-year students. So there will be a need for multiple explanations of the same concept.

email me if you want to continue discussion... i've got to go back to work now...

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[1] e.g. http://minireference.com/miniref/lib/tpl/miniref/landings/im...
The only solution to negligent teachers is visibility into these behaviors. This also seems like a way that the conditions could be improved: showing them off.
>companion of a fairy named Chang

Now it even sounds more like a dildo name.
Suppose that it's significantly greater than predicted? Are you willing to bet your future happiness, and the health and wealth of the rest of humanity, that it isn't?
I left this (very small point) on Jonathan's blog but think it worth noting here too:

Taking the new Moleskine from the shelf and removing it from its plastic wrap, I turned to the first blank page and picked up my pen.

Good luck on the next steps. One small suggestion, however: consider a Rhodia Webnotebook next time (I wrote about it here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/product-review-rhod...). It's more durable than Moleskines and the paper is consistently better. I use a pocket-size notebook but there are A4 versions too.
phaser? http://phaser.io/
I wish that climate-deniers and flat earthers were flagged off the front page of HN as fast as any discussion of sexism in the tech community is.
From my read, it came down to founders issues, which is a big reason why startups fail, or at the very least have breakups. It's something I know very well.

At the end, when things suck (and they will totally suck), and you have to drive hard, you gotta know that the people who are with you, are those you can be with the next 8-10 years.
The 400 gbps attack on Cloudflare was supposedly launched by this group.

https://twitter.com/DerpTrolling
The motive that came through to me was a sense of a loss of voice, i.e. he didn't feel like he had an equal say now that they had accepted money from investors. I.e. unrealistic expectations.
I assume for this reason you also have become religious to avoid a small probability of burning in hell for an infinite amount of time? (See pascals wager.)
I have a very uncommon last name and relatively uncommon first name. Still, there are three people on the internet with my name. We're all within two years of each other in age. One even lives in the state I grew up in. Put us all together and there's not a demographic we can't offend in some way.
I'd be surprised if any first time startup founder has all their expectations met.
"Egos are going to clash"

I feel the best way working with others on a startup is to stop focusing on being right, or trying to prove yourself to others, and just focus on product-market fit, revenue, growth, etc. If you're going to be made a fool, but the product succeeds, then so be it.
I know it's failed everywhere else in the world, but maybe Socialism/Communism will work for us!
Not sure how that works. Wouldn't it simply amp up the attacks? It also doesn't address the root causes: DDoS attacks happen because they can. People do these things for social reasons more than profit, when they're easy.
How does this post have 60 points?
This is an argument from convenience. Its like blaming the drug dealers for wall street's cocaine problems. Notwithstanding that issue, you have the opportunity cost of focus and attention on something. Which means you likely have remidiable inefficiency in other areas. It is that which kills...like taking your eye off the road and having a car accident. Again, that has nothing to do with the (oil,power,auto) companies or whether or not you dirve a prius, a tesla, or an F-150.
Except his complaint was about openness. So exerting control through GPL would be open, but exerting control outside of GPL is not, even if you exert less control and over less people?
So, it was an individual who dropped out of a YC team? Or was it an entire YC team which dropped out? The former is common (although often pushed...); the latter only heard of once personally, except for the one famous "YC retraction (storenvy)". (someone in YC S11 had an idea for a payment system, got in, realized it wasn't viable, so dropped out before the beginning of the program; honestly probably should have stayed in and explored things in Bitcoin, etc., but that's with the luxury of hindsight).

I don't think founding a startup is ever "easy", but it's incredibly fun for a lot of people.
How about cheap and prosperity-inducing energy policies? Like weatherproofing, energy efficiency appliance standards, energy efficiency building codes, fuel efficiency auto standards, etc., etc.?
Just binding.pry works for me in rspec. Does that not work for you?