skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ditto.

At the end of the day, state actors all have finite resources. If we continuously tell people to not bother with crypto at all, then we are being self-defeating.

Right now targeting those that use crypto is like shooting fish in a barrel. So few people are using crypto regularly, that they are incredibly easy to single out. If everyone used crypto, the amount it would cost state actors to find and further investigate individuals would quickly overwhelm the current resources of those state actors.

Obviously people using these devices need to know they aren't foolproof and only use them for casual secrets that at most implicate, but not provide solid proof of activities considered subversive by a state actor.

Making the cost of dragnet mass surveillance phishing expeditions prohibitively expensive should be goal number one right now in the crypto community. State actors commit the crime of violating everyone's privacy because it is so incredibly easy and cheap to do so.

I don't know how much it currently costs for state intelligence agencies to investigate an individual, but whatever it is now, I would hope the the price were one to two orders of magnitude more expensive than it currently is and be at least in the 7 figure range. If someone really is a terrorist bent on causing lots of damage and killing civilians, it is trivial to justify spending 7 figures on surveilling that individual. The benefit of making it super expensive to surveil everyone, is that these state agencies can no longer casually surveil those it shouldn't be, such as American lawyers doing work protected by attorney client privilege [0].

At the end of the day, although state actors have deep pockets, they are bounded to some degree by market factors like what activities they can legitimately justify given the cost of surveillance and the the amount of talent they have available.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/us/eavesdropping-ensnared-...
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I'd like to see OTR implement some of the groupchat enhancements of this, or at least see a TextSecure implementation for the desktop.
I look forward to the headline:

"The European Union and countries x, y, z agree to stop using the US dollar for all transactions due to spying..."
I think he would consider books as "guided learning."
It's not a probabilities issue. What's being counted is state changes---after 44, the counter knows that the condition has been satisfied. Fairness just guarantees that those state changes will happen.
Where can I read how they do that? Some protocol explanation please!
I have gigabit fiber internet and it doesn't feel all that much faster than my old Comcast 20Mbs connection because the bottleneck isn't my connection, it's the servers I'm asking for content from. For some things it's blazingly fast (downloading updates, torrenting, etc) but for general web surfing the benefit is barely noticeable.

I think that's why fiber adoption is slower than broadband adoption was. There's not much that you can do over a gigabit connection that you can't do over a 20Mbs connection for the average subscriber. Until some killer app that requires a gigabit connection to work starts to become popular, people just aren't going to demand it and adoption will continue to limp along.
The download button does the download seamlessly without any prompting for file name etc.. How is that done?
Misinformation and undereducation makes things worse, to be sure, but that's not really what I was speaking of. My point was that becoming fully informed about anything is a lot of work. Becoming fully informed about everything is impossible.

"You still have subtle media manipulation like sky-news but nothing as blatant as fox-news&hollywood."

That's just silly. There's plenty of drivel in the UK. The Daily Mail easily gives Fox a run for its money, and The Sun is owned by the same guy who owns Fox News. My understanding is that the situation in other countries is roughly similar - some good journalism and a lot of crap - but I am less familiar. Switzerland's history of referenda is indeed comparatively good; I think there's a lot of factors that have contributed to its success.

Finally, even if you think the above factors are the only reason direct democracy works (or would work) beautifully in Europe and horribly in the US, what would you propose to fix them? I contend that "direct democracy" is not much of a remedy.
My guess would be that a translator receives the original text along with Google Translate's (or some other service's) version, and then proofreads it using the original as a reference.
To complete the analogy, even more comically, to enforce the punishment by firm A against netflix, they probably had to make a capital investment in sabotage gear of perhaps 75 cents per month TCO.

Thats kind of how it was in telecom before they gave up on detailed long distance billing. You'd spend 4 cents/min on billing infrastructure which was OK when a LD call from CHC to NYC was $4/minute, not so great when Sams Club was selling LD cards for 5 cents/min.

Never forget that creating false scarcity of a non-scarce good takes a lot of time, effort, and money.
The only people "being beaten up" are the black blocs and rightfully, IMHO. And it's not daily.
I can't install one in my living room either. That's why I tap the internet with a NAT box and a router. With a nuclear reactor and a few billion defense dollars, I could probably rig something up something analogous just about anywhere.
> but the density inside will be very very low

The density is not that low, but the total amount of ultra-hot matter is pretty small. If magnetic confinement is lost, the plasma will expand and cool; there is no sustained fusion without the confinement. The core would probably be wrecked, but that's about it.
Then again, the clock on the wall in the pub might have a hidden microphone, or camera. This site is rather ingenious in where they put microphones/cameras (wall charger?) - supercurcuits.com
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Git log is *so* 2005
Near the end of the article, it said that Ramis was visited recently by Bill Murray, from whom he'd been estranged for years. I wonder what that was all about, given their history together?
Okay, it seems the server is open source? And the protocol supports federation? Could I just run my own server and it will just work™ with users on a different server?

Are you basically presenting me with an option next to xmpp/otr?
Hi, I'm q's creator, Harel Ben-Attia.

The Linux toolset is really great, and I use it extensively. The whole idea of the tool is not to replace any of the existing tools, but to extend the toolset to concepts which treat text as data. In a way, it's a metatool which provides an easy and familiar way to add more data processing concepts to the linux toolset. There are many cases where I use 'wc -l' in order to count rows in a file, but if i need to count the rows of only the ones which have a specific column which is larger than the value X, or get the sum of some column per group, then q is a simple and readable way to do it properly, without any need for "tricks".

My rationale for creating it is also explained in the README of the github project.

Any more comments are most welcome.

Harel
Yeah, let's actually break the global economy, because NSA.
Linked article is not very sensible. It purposely conflates the dollar's role as a reserve currency and its role as the numeraire in international oil transactions. The first is a decision any central bank can make, and most keep a number of currencies on hand, though dollars predominate. The other is a decision made by OPEC in the 1970's which they have not seen fit to revisit, and frankly not something Iraq could do unilaterally.

Beyond that, the idea that there is any action Iraq could have taken which would have caused the dollar to fall in value 40-50% is ludicrous at its face. The economy of Iraq compared to that of the United States is tiny. The dollar reserves held by Iraq are tiny. And frankly while the oil production of Iraq is not tiny, Saudi Arabia could make up the difference without breaking a sweat. (Saudi Arabia produces well below capacity to manage the price.)

Finally, I don't think that a decline in the dollar of 50% would have quite the effect described in the article. As the largest external holder of dollar denominated debt, China would smart, but even more than the paper loss on there debt, their exports would no longer be competitive in the US, and they would lose their leading customer. (Which is why China would not let it happen...) On the other hand, American manufacturing and natural resources would once again more become competitive as real wages and costs fell. Such a decline in the currency would lead to a real decline in quality of life no doubt, but its quite possible, that rather than a recession, you'd see very low unemployment.
As far as I can tell Telegram doesn’t have end-to-end encrypted group chat. This looks really good!
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There is.

http://www.geek.com/games/flappy-bird-is-now-playable-in-min...
Just because it doesn't have the ,1 doesn't mean it's written in BASIC; it could still be written in machine language with a BASIC stub that executes the actual code (which is loaded into the BASIC memory area but isn't necessarily BASIC) when you type RUN.
I don't have direct experience with the state of the internet in the U.S., but isn't it terrible in large, metropolitan cities as well? I'm really just using the anecdata I've been reading on HN.

Furthermore, afaik many small towns even in eastern europe(while making great strides, no particularly huge cities) boast 100 mbit connections.

Assuming both of those statements are true, It doesn't seem to me like the economies of scale argument is valid here.

EDIT: 100 mbit/$20, 500 mbit/$30, checked my ISP.
> Or just converting gas to liquid?

Bingo.

Liquid helium is extremely cold, and hence not the easiest thing to transport. If you need liquid He, you need to make your own, from regular He gas.
Where are these numbers coming from? This seems completely divergent from the statistics here:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
What are you talking about? Monopolies ARE capitalism run rampant.
$400M seems like a steal for Oracle. DMP's are finally becoming much more accessible to advertisers, agencies & publishers. We're only beginning to touch the surface for audience modeling capabilities and taking these learnings across multiple channels for direct targeting.
There are lots of links in the words there.

A likely candidate is the link from "TextSecure V2 protocol".
Thanks for posting this; I wished when writing the article that I had plain React benchmarks to run.

However when I profiled your benchmark it seems like it is invoking React's event loop more than I would expect (and more than the React/Om benchmark does) -- do you have any idea why this would be? It seems like for this to be apples to apples, it shouldn't be invoking React's update logic (ie. re-rendering everything) until the end of the benchmark. Perhaps this difference is because of requestAnimationFrame?

I don't understand this comment:

> I don't think requestAnimationFrame has a lot to do with it, and immutability only slightly more; I think the real performance gain is in having an application data policy tailored to make the most of React's behavior.

As I mentioned in my article, "Benchmark 2" is a no-op on the DOM. So literally all React should be doing is calling render() before the benchmark (which returns basically nothing), letting the entire benchmark run, then calling render() again (in which it again returns basically nothing).

In other words, I don't see what the "application data policy" has to do with making React efficient in this case; all we're asking React to do here is calculate a no-op diff and then do nothing.
This man was a legend! He wrote/directed/produced/started in some of the most icon comedy films every (love me some Stripes). Its strange that he was able to slip under the radar. I think he liked it that way.

Harold seemed like a great guy. Always smiling. Always willing to give the funny lines to everyone else.

I hope he gets the coverage that he deserves. He truly was one of the greats!

I know this sounds a bit selfish of me, but I kinda wish there was a third Ghostbusters movie (ya ya ya, the game was the "3rd" movie). It would've been great to see him in a suit again and to be praised for the amazing films he brought to us.

R.I.P. Mr. Ramis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igfRYtwpQyU
How does this compare with Hemlis https://heml.is
This has been my experience as well.
Many tabs = MacBook is burning like a second sun.
Sometimes I restart Chrome and it's better. So maybe some of it is caused by leaky scripts on pages etc. but it's very annoying.
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I understand. I just do not believe that could happen. Especially in a country that the internet provider just need to delivery 10% of the internet speed contracted.
Agreed.

That said, this whole episode might serve as an interesting case in relation to many Libertarian talking points, such as the relative merits of many regulations covering savings & loan organizations in most countries.
and the railroad network before that, etc

And don't forget: The telegraph industry! Neal Stephenson writes about it in "Mother Earth, Mother Board:" http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html , which is fascinating and worth reading.

On one side there are irritated customers wondering why their service is so poor and why their bills are so high

One other "don't forget": a lot of people who pay attention are unhappy about franchise agreements and telco efforts to prohibit local utility fiber deployments by outlawing them at the state level (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7271044). Local municipalities that say, "Fuck it, we're going to roll our own" often find themselves forbidden because of successful lobbying at the state level.
There was some animosity as a result of Groundhog day I think. Creative difference I believe.
> Programming is also a skill, but it’s not at all intuitive or tangible. Without guided learning, it’s impossible to even get started.

I have to disagree. Especially with web programming, it's surprisingly easy to get started. I know plenty of people who started out by just copying and pasting bits of html they found through 'view source'. Even when I had a basic grasp of html (through the "guided" learning of a 5-page tutorial), my first javascript was trying to change a counter on a snippet I'd copied from somewhere else on the web.

I realize that "you need a mentor" is a profitable piece of advice for a site that sells web development tutoring, but it's blatantly incorrect.
From a description of the show :

> "The dark comedy that will reportedly focus on a group of programmers in East Palo Alto"

Slightly OT, but are startups setting up shop in EPA now?
So if that is the case, when I read the Netflix openconnect page at [1], the list of ISPs there do NOT engage in free peering? I was assuming they were because of the second sentence on that page: "ISPs can do this either by free peering...".

Also, another tangent: I'm wondering what happens when Netflix installs one of their cache servers at an ISP data center. If 10 customers want to stream House of Cards and that's 10GB of data, I'm assuming Netflix has to end up paying somewhere for 10GB of upload bandwidth.

But if the Netflix cache server was in a nearby ISP data center, would Netflix only pay for 1GB of bandwidth (to upload to their servers), and not pay for 10GB of bandwidth as the customers hit the cache server? I'm assuming that the ISP makes some of it back by charging Netflix to place their servers locally, but it's still cheaper then paying to stream all the bandwidth.

If an ISP were completely focused on maximizing it's profit and not on what Netflix quality was to it's customer, does the ISP have any incentive to install Netflix cache server?

Thanks again for clearing up these questions!

[1]https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect
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"Only now do we have a world in which an instructor can give some bit of instruction, get a question from a student about something, and simply click "edit" to go back and fix whatever weakness in the original instruction the student's question reveals almost as quickly as they could answer the question in the first place."

To the best of my knowledge as a participant there are no MOOCs running internal processes anything like this. More likely in my experience is you get a wiki of errors for when its rerun again in a year with the same videos. Much like my film-strip example. "Advance to the next powerpoint slide at the beep" and then the record starts skipping.
It takes far less motivation or willpower to do manual labor than mental labor. I had multiple manual labor jobs before becoming a developer and I could do my work on the factory line even if I was tired, unhappy, apathetic, distracted or preoccupied. I find it far harder to code under those conditions.
Whisper Systems' headquarters is located in San Francisco, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_Systems

Doesn't that make them susceptible to a search warrant forcing them to give up the private keys (or equivalent) to TextSecure, ala Lavabit?
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>You're doing a pretty good job at sophistry, but since you happened to use the word "right", I'd point out that decisions don't affect rights.

Why?

You're stating this as an axiom. Indeed, you're taking the very concept of human rights itself as an axiom, and that's why everything follows so cleanly for you.

But step out of the box. There is no reason for everyone to believe that. Most people through history did not believe in it. Many of them would have equally rational arguments to the contrary. Your very concept of "rights" as something fundamental is a deeply held Western social norm and "collective agreement." Because 9/10 people collectively agree that we have rights, our rights are protected and enforced.

If they did not agree, your idea of rights would be regarded as a fine bit of eccentricity and people would kill you as a sacrifice to the god Asdkjhf and feel that it was not only right and just but necessary. In other words, your rights would be completely meaningless. They are not an objective construct you can hold up as a shield against all wrongs.

Morality is an entirely different argument. But within the commonly held philosophical framework, a (democratic) government cannot be compared to a mafia because the government represents the will of the people while the mafia does not. But this argument can never convince you, because you have taken the axiom of individual rights to the extreme while not taking other axioms.
Ah, that's clever. Thanks for the info.
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I'd really like to try their new app, but they only distribute it through Google Play. That excludes an awful lot of their potential users, especially those who most care about privacy.
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> Stop it, this makes Joyent look stupid, you're better than this.

How does it make joyent look stupid? Dtrace is miles ahead of Systemtap, especially when it comes to installation because dtrace is generally embraced where it's being used as a default installation which systemtap is not and I don't have to make a monkey dance if I upgrade the kernel.

On a system with dtrace like OS X tracing tools like dtruss are basically just wrappers around dtrace. It's very natural to the platform.
The writer is suggesting that the "FCC can mandate right-of-way rules similar to those granted Google Fiber to all credible competitors".

He isn't saying that the "free market" will fix things by itself. He observes that there isn't a free market in providing internet access because the incumbents control things like telephone poles (to hang optical cable on) and municipalities are so addicted to the kickbacks they get from cable franchisees that they won't let anyone else in. The magic of the invisible hand only works if there is actual competition. Those supply and demand curve charts only describe reality if there aren't monopolists.

His claim is that if the FCC mandated right of way to anyone wanting to hook homes up then a company like Google would already be serving many more homes as incumbents wouldn't be able to block them as AT&T is doing in Austin.

This is true, but I'm not convinced that it is the right way to get proper competition here. Is the solution really to have 5 companies each run optical fiber down a street? Better would be for one company to run super-fast tubes, and then sell the bandwidth in bulk to ISPs. Maybe that is the business model that would emerge, but maybe not.
Hemlis is XMPP+GnuPG based, so (according to TextSecure developers - but most agree) bad for asynchronous communication (XMPP) and without perfect forward secrecy (GnuPG).
They are kind of right. These phones are worthless in the US market or any high end market due to lack of Google Play. And that's where the profit margins are. Samsung is really the only player with enough vertical integration and scale to profit on the low end devices. Nokia is one of the very few vendors who can provide a competent maps app without Google Maps, but they are still producing a failure here due to not kissing Google's ring.
We are also interested in a TextSecure implementation for the desktop!

Right now the protocol includes multi-device support, so the foundation is there for developing desktop and tablet apps that work seamlessly in conjunction with your phone. Our first desktop implementation is likely going to be a browser extension, feel free to jump in and get involved with that if you'd like.
I'm pretty sure Whisper Systems never get any private keys, because the private keys are only stored on the end user devices.
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You almost nailed it. It is pretty much like that but there is more than one person editing. It is a chain of editors that work in sequence.
Does anyone else see the inherent issue and irony in trying to monitor and protect an extremely long undersea cable across the Atlantic?
So you encrypt everything with line rate hardware on both sides.
Does anyone else get a 403 when trying to access the Google Takeout link?
I do not know if i expressed myself badly, or if you could not understand that i'm criticizing the government, not the people.
Hey Ahaz I wanted to reply to your question on this link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7176039
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Legal intercept legislation would likely require them to patch customer systems to allow the reporting of the key.