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No, it's a different attack. The one on Krebs' site was about 200 gbps and lasted 10 minutes, it was done by some kid who wanted to impress a gang or something. The 400 gbps one was against an unnamed site and lasted a couple of days.
For comparison, the asteroid from the extinction level event which killed the dinosaurs was about 5 kilometers in diameter.
If your bill turns out to have one of the IDs that is known to have been given to DB Cooper then indeed they'll want it back.
As it stands, no, the people have no such right. Time Warner is currently under no obligation to server any content that they don't want to.

That's the problem.
>Frequentists take the view that you should fix the parameters and integrate over the data. That is kind of weird to me.

Integrating over the data makes a lot of sense during methods development. If you're the inventor of some algorithm and you want to convince people that they should apply it to their data set, then you'd want to show that it works well on a range of possible data sets.

It also makes some sense during policy development. Over your lifetime, you're going to see a lot of data sets, and having some policy about which statements about those data sets to believe can be useful. This policy doesn't have to be P<0.05. It could be six-sigma (like in physics) or something based on the false discovery rate (like in genomics).

I don't think frequentism is always the right approach, but I do see a place for it.
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They can serve all they want, but the unfortunate fact remains that companies like Time Warner and Comcast are needed to actually provide the network service.

It's like having a gas station in the middle of a desert, with no roads within a 50 mile radius.
Thanks very much Aaron. I took a look at those principles and it was a reassuring list that I might be doing something right :) I'll try and reach out in the next few days once I've had more time to read about indiewebcamp.
Why not? Many European countries don't extradite their own citizens [1]. So you only need to comply with the local laws, which are often much less strict in terms of AML provisions. Of course you wouldn't want to do any international travel as an exchange operator who violates US law, but otherwise you're safe.

[1] Instead, they can sue you locally, even if they crime happened in another country. However, this lawsuit will be according to local laws. So if the crime is only illegal in the other country they can't sue you.
The plane was already escorted by fighters from friendly nations. So long as the Swiss trust that the Italians and French are competent, why bother. That has little to do with 9/11.

Shooting down a loaded Airbus is definitely not preferable and the US has never done that. The right action is as you said to escort it to prevent a 9/11 type attack. In similar situations, the US has done precisely that. The US has escorted jets down.

I don't see how the actions of the Swiss is really all that different from anyone else. The current norm of escorting hijacked airlines with fighters seems appropriate. The only difference here is that the Swiss was willing to rely on the military of friendly nations to do it. It would be a whole other matter if the Swiss told the French to turn back and let the airliner land unescorted.

Are we talking past each other? Or maybe I'm not appreciating the differences you're trying to point out. I'm wary of any attributions to culture, etc. Most of what happened was fairly procedural.
Musl is fairly new, and it's linux-specific, for those reasons I think many have not heard of it.

But it is very good. We use big parts of it in emscripten for example, and it works great - nice new and compact code, permissive MIT license, friendly upstream.
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This is completely, utterly wrong. He had the key to the index of files, not the documents themselves.
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Slightly relevant: the IRA managed to steal ~10% of all Northern Bank banknotes in a single robbery. The bank decided to recall and print new ones: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1480673/New-bank-note...

This would correspond to abandoning a blockchain and moving to a new one in response to a big enough fraud.
True - it's only application insanity preventing a distributed collection of database clients from properly coordinating the proper allocation of postgres connections amongst themselves.

Now true, in the event of a network partition, you lose the ability to open a database connection. But that's a small price to pay, right?
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First, most Netflix content isn't served from AWS, but from their CDNs running on a variety of ISPs (lately, a lot of Cogent).

Second, the VPN trick doesn't really tell you anything except that the end point of the VPN has a better path to Netflix's CDNs than the route your ISP is using. Your ISP doesn't have to act overloaded routes to the content, which they want Netflix to pay to upgrade.
I took "The commission will not seek to immediately reclassify Internet service as a utility. Mr. Wheeler said that the commission will retain the right to do so, however, if its new rules are approved and appear not to be working adequately." to mean that they'll be using the utility-classification as a lingering threat if the ISPs don't follow along.
I personally love Gnome Shell's look and UI. To each their own...
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> Despite such demonstrations, Perlman has been unable to tempt venture capitalists with the technology. “They invariably bring in experts who say it doesn’t really work,” he says. “I am showing them a demo, but they remain convinced that it’s something else.”

Then it's not an adequate demo?
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Any chance you could farm out the software to lab in a nationality with MUCH MUCH looser copyright laws, and a court system that would be problematic for outside law suits?
Given the United States' track record when it comes to pushing out the boundaries of its extraterritorial jurisdiction, it would not surprise me if such exchanges were to encounter difficulties in finding a bank that was willing to provide them with banking facilities.

Also, it would be inadvisable for the staff of such exchanges to travel to (or transit through) the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carruthers#Arrest_during_...
As the documents were produced by the government, they are unequivocally in the public domain. You can't be called out for copying them under copyright law. There is, however, the other pile of laws governing the handling of classified documents.

In the US, the system is stupid enough that once The Guardian has published a Top Secret document to the entire world, and someone visits their website with a non-classified computer, the security guys go just as crazy trying to clean up the leak from the affected machine as they would with a top secret file that somehow made it onto that machine from the secure network. To avoid this, the network guys add the Guardian website to the web filter rules. As a result, the only people in the world not allowed to read about the leak are the people cleared by the government as trustworthy enough to keep its secrets. Irony.

The system really is that stupid. It always has been. The problem now is that the humans running the system have lost the ability to act in a manner most other people would consider reasonable.

They stopped and searched someone at the airport who was carrying contraband information, after all.
Partly true, as usually there are no monetary consequences.
Does anyone who is concerned about the NSA issues seriously think that encryption (in the way it's implemented here) would be any help?
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So, Facebook has it figured out because it uses displayed names? If only I didn't have to log in using my email, which suffers the same problems of usernames.
I don't follow. Care to expand?
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Doesn't seem that page includes the 500GB package yet (or anything even close)
Anybody familiar with wireless comms know what this actually does and what the innovation is?

Is this distributed beamforming?
> HP probably believes that people will be sticking with older hardware much longer

I really hope this is the case, and that a sustainable update model means I can reasonably expect multi-decade lifetimes for utility grade systems. My main concerns would be lock-in, and process changes that artificially create a need for continuous updates.
Just to be clear, this approach is awesome and completely correct. However, it's important to remember that this policy isn't stable. It's liable to change with the FCC chairman. Should the next administration choose to regulate ISPs more loosely, these gains will be reversed.

The only solution is for Congress to pass these regulations and enshrine net neutrality as a fundamental principle of internet regulation.
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If you can't be found we might as well have already won the war, no?
Why do most of these "cloud database" offerings, seem to be built on MySQL ?
RDS, Rackspace and Google all are MySQL first - only Heroku seems to be Postgres.

Does Mysql lend itself innately to scalability at Amazon/Google scale that is hard to do with Postgres ?
If internet service were a luxury product, I'd agree. However, an internet connection is every bit as important as having a phone (land or cell) these days.

Assuming we completely de-regulate, you'd still have municipal governments striking these anti-competitive monopoly deals. In fact, there'd be no barrier to it at all, since we're de-regulated in this case.

Don't like Comcast? Better not move to City A, because they "own" it, even though some of the fiber was paid for by the residents.
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It's Snowden, not Snowdon. At least spell the man's name properly.
Unless the intelligent Velociraptors had a "World War 3" that featured a massive, targeted asteroid strike near what's now Mexico, I think there's geological evidence for non-intelligent causes for a lot of these. (Or, building on this article, did the Trilobite People trigger the massive Siberian lava flows that ended the Permian?)

Still a fascinating question, mind you! (But honestly, I'm dubious that anything humanity could do today would lead to a Permian-scale mass extinction. That one was remarkable.)
This seems like madness to me. It's "PHP", so it inherits everything that's bad about that language. But it's also incompatible with PHP, so you don't even get the power of being able to reuse the world's existing PHP code and expertise.

* PH7 is case-sensitive unlike the standard PHP engine
* Unlike the zend engine which passes arrays by copy, PH7 pass arrays by reference exactly like PHP5 does with objects (class instances).

I'm not saying the extensions and changes they've made aren't for the better, but they mean this language is effectively not PHP. And, if you're going to use a language that's not PHP, why not use one that's significantly cleaner and simpler?
it's misleading regardless because prices is plural in "Bitcoin Exchange Prices"
Right, so you gave "cowboy coding" a different name, then.

"Not surprisingly, others understand their code. It integrates well with the code base."

Actually, that IS surprising. You are literally saying that if sic some engineer on a problem and tell them to think really hard before they commit anything, they'll get it right.

Maybe you got lucky and that's working out with the hires you have so far, or maybe your scale is still small enough that new features can be developed in isolation without becoming incomprehensible. But I wouldn't pretend this is a successful process.
I think what he's trying to say is "we're all gonna die!!!!"
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Interesting, Meizu makes some pretty beautiful hardware. I got one of the MX3 on the cheap to play around with. I only wish they would stop using Samsung crappy Exynos SoC
Curious to get the hacker perspective on this topic...have you tried this method with your products? Tried something else that worked well? Let's chat :-)
starbucks relies on providing the user a quick fix of doamine when they feel stressed or unfocused, which keeps them coming back.

versace and cadillac rely on providing their customers a feeling of superiority and social status. cadillacs are arguably better engineered than other brands, but versace is clearly all about status.

i think it's a reasonable comparison, but as others have said, this is what most companies do anyhow.
Maybe

But they said that of the iPhone as well.

There's always going to be skeptical people, even if your demo is perfect and your product is a machine that turns "crap into gold"

The ratio of rejections to acceptances unfortunately is very high even for a great product (and it's possibly very low for bad products as well)
Well, all organisms have the right to try to live, so it might not be a bad idea to pay off the angry peasants.
The point is not that they can avoid using Time Warner's infrastructure, it's that Time Warner will eventually stop offering content if nobody wants to view it. Then they will have no more incentive to throttle third party content.

I'm not suggesting that this will work, I'm disputing that the people don't have any power. People almost always have some influence over their situation. That doesn't mean they have a magic bullet, but there is almost always hope.
I'm sure the victims will be pissed right off
> Do you knock on your door and demand your private keys?

Pretty much. If you're storing your bitcoin with something like Coinbase, they could also knock on Coinbase's door.

> How can they do that if you've broken no laws?

Buying stolen artwork is not a crime if you don't know it's stolen. But the government can still seize the stolen artwork and return it to its original rightful owner. The only recourse you have is to go after the person who sold you the stolen artwork -- which may not be very feasible for you to do in the case of semi-anonymous bitcoin transactions.

> How do they even know you have them in the first place?

If you use a third-party service like Coinbase, they could just ask them. If you're using your own wallet, they'd have to rely on good-old fashioned deduction -- e.g. if the previous holder of the coins has an accounting log showing payment to you in bitcoins, that's probably enough to infer that you have or did have possession. It might be enough to shift the burden of proof so that you have to show that you don't have possession of the bitcoins.
Why? It's also the cheapest (in CPU utilization).
The encryption that has been proposed does nothing to address the NSA issues.

Amazon has a similar feature on S3 - they will encrypt your data on upload, and automatically decrypt it when you read it [1]. From a security perspective, this appears to be useless [2].

I suppose it might be useful if you're at an organisation with a rule saying "all data must be encrypted at rest" where the rule cannot be changed, but does not have to be implemented in an effective or useful manner.

[1] http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/10/new-amazon-s3-server-side...
[2] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/8765/what-does-a...
the data is often transferred between google datacenters, as the DB is "transient"... that transfer is probably also encrypted, but the NSA may already have those links compromised... encrypting the data and the transport can't hurt...
Sort of. The sense that's being used here is a corporatism that means 'act with the level of commitment implied by owning something even though you have none of the rights benefits or responsibilities' - i.e. It is a form of doublethink required by the corporate hierarchy.

It is quite reasonable to ask 'why should I act as if I own think, when actually I do not?'
1) I don't think he meant that it was being served off of AWS, just that was his VPN example. Any in the US should do.

2) VPNs add latency and are still limited by the bandwidth of your connection. Given that Netflix has a decent CDN, in theory your VPN-box shouldn't have all that much better a path to a Netflix server than you do. So, assuming that the paths to netflix are mostly equal, a fast VPN-Netflix experience vs a crappy local connection one would imply the ISP is to blame (for whatever reason malicious or not).
Actually they are experimenting with goal line technology at the world cup eg did that ball go over the line or not.

There is a lot of doggy stuff going on with football betting in the far east - which makes your comment " If you take from a league the ability to set-up games " is a little worrying.
That's not really how it works. The sender does the splitting, but he has to send the change somewhere, and customarily it's sent to a new address. The receiver doesn't even have to be online, you don't get your change from them, so the only way you'd get blacklisted coins in change is if you already had some blacklisted coins in the inputs you were using to begin with.
Ask HN: Do you pay for any weekly newsletters?
I remember there was a time when paid newsletters were in vogue - about 2/3 years ago. At the time there were also a couple of platforms that let you set them up quickly and easily.

I was interested in these at the time.

But the seasons change - and they have seemed to fallen off my radar. I want to get the communities' opinion and experience quickly.

(1) Do you pay for any weekly/monthly newsletters?

(2) Have you run any yourself?

(3) Have you had any success either way?
Yeah that was pretty nice to see.

My first thought on seeing this project was wondering how hard it would be to hook up to nginx, or similar. I don't really "do" PHP, so I'd probably not attempt it myself, but I get the feeling from having written nginx modules in the past that this doesn't look too hard - the PH7 API seems decent enough.
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If an example can illustrate a difference between two formal methodologies, the example should be as simple as possible, right? It doesn't paint one as superior to the other, but simply highlights the different methods by which they assign probabilities to events. If you make the example more complicated, the difference becomes less clear.
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The first part might be true for the Aliens/Elvis Alive/Illuminati kind of conspiracy theories.

But conspiracies happen all the time, and expecting them is not a "theory", it's a fact of politics and government, since before there was Machiavelli.

Everytime a government decision is taken behind closed doors for things that affect politics/the public/etc, it's a conspiracy.

It can be as simple as a few party heads deciding on who to push for the presidency (outside official party prodecures). Or a company paying a politician to pass some favorable law.

Or some public prosecutor trying to get some black kid thrown in jail, because he is convinced it's guilty, and not hesitating to supress witness and withold evidence (as has happened thousands of times).

Or it can be the head of FBI secretly keeping tabs on politicians and blackmailing them or giving tidbits to the press for those he didn't like. Like this Hoover guy.

It can be the President of the United States ordering people to break in the headquarters of the opposition party or eavesdrop on them. You know, like this Nixon guy.

It's idiotic to think conspiracies do not exist, or that "counter-culture convictions regarding the so-called "Establishment" were somehow proven wrong.

If anything, the whole Snowden affair proves otherwise. As if we needed such a thing.

People living in countries with actual heated political history, even places like Spain or Italy, know all about state conspiracies, including murder of dissidents (tons of them taken to court and proved from later, freeer, governments). Case in point:

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

It's only apolitical people living work-to-home and back everyday lives, and only getting their information from mainstream news that can claim that conspiracies don't exist. Open a history book -- preferably one that's not about the Civil War but modern history, and you'll find aplenty.
The article also stated that all of the code is peer reviewed and QA'd. So it's not really cowboy coding.
Just guessing but maybe cause MySQL is(was?) more popular? the PHP and Java crowd is popular for using MySQL
If you don't find a bank account you could always operate a P2P-style exchange like bitmarket used to: The exchange acts as an escrow for the Bitcoins, but the fiat transaction happens directly between market participants. Once the fiat arrives at the receiver the coins are released. In case there are any disagreements the exchange can ask both sides for proofs. This won't prevent 100% of fraud, but seems to have worked well for bitmarket.

The reason why those P2P-style exchanges aren't common in the United States is because it's hard to directly transfer money between two people. With SEPA transactions in Europe you can directly transfer money to any recipient, usually for free (or at a very low cost).
Just for a bit of perspective, Alex St. John is the "Father of DirectX", and created the first video game company that streamed games over a web browser.
It's interesting to note that it took 30,000 - 50,000 years for the humans to develop this extremely complex society and ecosystem. Perhaps so short that when if we were destroyed this very day nothing would remain, say from nuclear war. All of our buildings would decay and there would be very little remnant in the fossil record.

That reminds me of something:

> The [Science of Discworld] also features a fictional crab civilization and the dinosaurs (both of which are wiped out by comets/asteroids colliding with the earth), before jumping ahead to when an advanced civilization (presumably humans) has evacuated the earth due to an impending natural disaster.

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

Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if (for example) the field of astrobiology is thinking about what could be used as indirect proof of intelligent lifeforms tampering with an ecosystem. Also, while you are obviously are aware of this, I think it's worth emphasizing that all mass extinctions showing a similar pattern is not a proof agency.
Documents produced by the government in the UK are protected by Crown Copyright and are emphatically not as a matter of course in the Public Domain.
There are a few interesting choices in your comment that make it appear to be an Astroturf:

1. You state that it is "your experience" that "all" recent Netflix slowness is a result of peering contract disputes. Unless you are a network operations engineer at one of these companies how could you have this experience?

2. You link to the WSJ, which is not a credible source when discussing big media companies.

That said, you may well be a real person, in which case I would recommend changing your wording on commonly astroturfed topics.
I think I remember that episode.

I suppose "aliens" are a much more attractive explanation than "government-funded wartime R&D centers plus post-war prosperity plus Cold War arms race equals massive scientific advancement"