skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Bible, for example, can be sent down the wire now, over UDP, and doesn't have to be checksummed, because The Bible is in effect, metadata"

this is a nice writeup, but it reads more like a poem or a stream of consciousness type article. yeah, granted the snowden thing affects us all, but blanket encryption? everyday joe users still doesnt understand pgp, and thats easy. neuromancer is a much more advanced society, with cyborgs, and such, so we're a long way away from any dystopia.

i could be wrong
Is anyone else more disturbed at the 4chan-esque style of the author, than the actual ramifications of the "presentation"?

It sounds like international security is being run by 10 year old wannabe anonymous members.

Do the NSA employees really watch presentations such as this?
Netflix CEO Slams Web Companies Over Net Neutrality
> But those who believe US companies can "buy legislation" are welcome to explain how (e.g.) Google, the second-largest corporation in the US by market cap, was not allowed to build a bridge by the Mountain View City Council (http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2013/12/12/council-deadlocks-on...).

A single event doesn't certainly demonstrate anything; a disproportionate amount of "legislation purchasing" happened and is happening - and this is very factual.

If you have a look at what's happening in the sectors... well, all the sectors, but especially the financial, food and military ones, you would have a clear idea of which process are we in.
You can, provided you can convince the judge.
GitHub being DDoS'd
'The Technology Is Out There,' but Satellites Don't Track Jets
This is honestly so pointless and bad for the community, further dividing up mobile technology. Why not just improve on something that already exists like jQM?

"Building native iOS apps in HTML5". You're building them in HTML5, to look like iOS7, not exactly native now is it? This is the same thing as making a theme for jQuery Mobile.

I clicked on this hoping to download something that converts my HTML5 app to native code, but then I clicked this, and immediately had severe performance issues on iOS7, iPhone 5S.

I really hope this does not take off, and if it does, I hope they fix the performance ASAP.

Not even REMOTELY close to native performance, look, or feel.
The big list of two-factor tutorials for sys admins
We've done a lot of tutorials on how to add two-factor authentication to various enterprise remote access solution. Here's the list.
same here. just now.
Alternative to security questions for when there is no email
Was anyone else disappointed when they opened it on their iPhone and it rendered the same page?
Yeah, but I can't do that to my family in the other branches.
You can do this better with Geektool/Nerdtool, that way it'll be an overlay of your actual desktop background (so you can have things other than plain white) and you can of course supply your own quotes.

$ /usr/local/plan9/bin/fortune
Don't look back -- something may be gaining on you. -Satchel Paige.
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So you are looking to purchase users so that you could debug your tracking software on them? Excellent plan.
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GitHub under DDoS attack right now (again...)
This skips over the hard part: managing docker containers. Poking a hole directly to the container is a leaky abstraction. A reverse proxy like HAProxy or Varnish should be sitting in front of the container.

Once you have the reverse proxy setup the next problem that arises is routing to containers based on the domain. Now your HAProxy or Varnish config is going to get bloated and every time you deploy a container the config needs to be modified and reloaded. By this time you might be looking at chef or puppet for automating the config generation.

Chef and puppet are not simple to learn. They have their own set of quirks (like unreliable tooling support on Windows). I'm in the process of conquering this, but I hope one day there will be a simpler way.
Threes! came first.

The chain roughly goes: Threes! was released in February. A near-clone called 1024! came out on iOS at the start of March. 2048 acknowledges the debt to 1024!, and the first commits to the git repository were in the first week of March.

Once the source code was available, tiny variations became much easier to fork, and we got a cambrian explosion mostly descending from 2048. (There was another 2048 as a parallel development, with significantly different visual style. Not sure where it falls in the timeline.)
There is actually a somewhat similar game on National Public Radio. I forget what it's called though...
Orwell was pointing to a very real phenomenon with "newspeak". For the best examples look to how political leaders talk about military conflicts. Language regarding conflict is very well chosen and quite misleading. Terms like "collateral damage", "area denial weaponry", "enhanced interrogation", "enemy combatants" are not exactly ironic, but they do have true meanings and implications very far from what they superficially sound like. Examples of true ironic "newspeak" can also be readily found. You may have heard leaders talk about various military, police, and spying agencies protecting your "freedom", despite the obvious roles they have in restricting your freedom. Talk about freedom often actually means "freedom to do what we want", which is, of course, the opposite of freedom.

To give a common example, an invasion will often be talked about by the invading power as a "liberation". Yet the act of liberation by a foreign power always ends with that foreign power having significant local political influence and access to natural resources (and may involve permanent occupation).

Or take the "war on terror" for example. Superficially, a "war on terror" should make people LESS afraid. Yet, in practise the politicians engaged in the "war on terror" have actively tried to encourage fear (in order to justify granting extraordinary powers). The irony is so blatant it's right there in the name. Being at war makes people more afraid, so declaring war on terror is automatically ironic. It's like having an orgy to promote abstinence.
Apparently its a DDoS https://status.github.com/
Before any flame war starts, I'd like to say that my comment below is not meant to be offensive.

This type of thing would only happen in the OSX app store. It's interesting what a market will pay for depending on where/who you're selling to.
From their status page: "13:13 UTC We are currently working to mitigate an incoming DDoS attack. We'll provide additional information as it becomes available."
You just hand-waved away the fact that the trust necessary for an independent retailer to accept an "untrusted" credit-card has been aggregated in Visa and MasterCard and codified through tort law and agreements with the aforementioned credit-card companies.

What are you going to do, provide a detailed transaction history to the retailer proving that "your bitcoin transactions always are legit?" Kind of removes the last of the "anonymity" afforded by Bitcoin.
This is so true. I'm preparing my thesis, and my days consist of reading many, many articles.

Since it's about ECG and I'm in Electronics Engineering, the readings spread across multiple journals and publishers(cardiology, signal processing, etc)...Most articles are in the 25 to 35 dollars range. I read a lot of them(I have to). It would be in the thousands of dollars.

The good news is, I have free access through research centre. The bad news: The average quality of articles sucks. As in really sucks.

I just start reading and it's clear the authors just want to increase their index of published articles (there's also the h-index which pissed a lot of academics.).

A lot of my work consists of throwing articles in the bin. It makes me laugh when "researchers" publish an article in a renowned medium where the benefit is incremental. I love it when they do "synthetic"(computer generated) ECG with a nice, big, fat QRS complex with no noise.. Oh wait, no.. They add a "Gaussian" noise and then apply their algorithm and get "100%" detection.

It is just so stupid. I'm working with ECG that's been acquired on real people, in real conditions. The noise is just incredible (power line, breathing, contact, etc). I look at their ECG and I want to burn the digital version of that article.

No content, or worse, poor content. Really light articles. You read them and you feel sick.

Quick, quick, publish ! Anything. Just ship it.

Although there are some articles which you read and you're like "Wow".

Rant over.
Microsoft snoops on blogger's email account. Is yours safe?
Are you interested in Android games?
No. It's a well-known fact that surreality and humour are geographically isolated to the British Isles. Though the French did get a sort of surrealesque surrealism through cultural cross-contamination at one point, though it's clearly inferior to the real article despite their vigorous claims to the contrary.
So uploaded on a appfog http://short-route-demo.ap01.aws.af.cm/
Now you can check.
How A Stupid Experiment In The Armpit Of NYC Launched Refinery29
It might be a good idea to post your privacy policy here, otherwise people will assume you're up to no good.
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>Freedom can't be defined as a freedom from restriction or a Lockean framework of liberty, as Stallman imagines, but rather the freedom to engage creative or productive endeavors without micromanagement from others.

How is "freedom to engage creative or productive endeavors without micromanagement from others" not a "freedom from restriction"? Is the implication here that using the GPL is tantamount to "micromanagement from others"? Because I don't really see it.

>one need not worry so much about people misappropriating things because in the end they cannot out-compete what is free and open. Yeah, SunOS forked from BSD. How is it doing these days compared to the open source versions?

That's not the example I would pick. How about Apple forking FreeBSD?

>The question, rather literally is who has a right to tell you what license your works go under

I'm not sure what this has to do with GPL vs BSD. Nobody has the right to force you to use a particular license. Ideally, nobody gets to change the license of code you wrote either, just because they changed a variable name. It is this particular guarantee that the GPL provides and BSD doesn't.
> The truly rare, difficult and world-changing is the realization (production, enactment, what have you) of a really great idea, and the luck of that realization occurring in the right context.

Nonetheless that doesn't make the idea itself worth little (let alone nothing). By analogy, land is normally little use unless you put a building or infrastructure on it or start farming or mining it. And it's seriously expensive and difficult to do those things. But that doesn't make the value of land low. Land isn't just valuable, it's expensive in the most literal and straightforward you-pay-money-for-it sense, sometimes staggeringly so.
The GIF tag the Internet deserves
2048 (web) is based on 1024 (iOS), which is an (unashamed?) "free" clone of Threes! (iOS)

http://thoughtfulplay.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/a-short-game-...

Threes! has such great personality. It's so much more than 2048, and it's well worth the buck or so it costs. I hope it's had an uptick since the 2048 craze.
GitHub down, DDoS attack
Exactly. Fix your problematic democracies before attacking other ones or, worse yet, intervening (think: Egypt).
Here are two app marketplaces:

https://flippa.com/

https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/home
I think you can define the IP address assigned to a container via something like `-p 127.18.0.10:80:80`, if that helps with your HAProxy config (but that assumes your host machine isn't changing as well).

Definitely an interesting issue. Have you seen etcd from CoreOS? Useful for service discovery.
I didn't notice until after you mentioned it. That said, at first I thought the letter was from SparkFun so maybe I'm not very awake today!
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I think you might be missing the point of tests. Its not "ease of test maintenance" that's driving architecture; its testing that elucidates bad design. The fundamental problem in the rails community is that instead of evolving architecture, we've added tooling to decrease the pain (e.g. guard/spork, zeus/spring, et al) rather than fix the way we write code that makes testing easy (easier?) and (more) painless.
Sorry for the bad explanation but I mean to say that when we travel through road it does not necessary that distance form A-B and B-A will be same and you can check my app on http://short-route-demo.ap01.aws.af.cm/
I have only one instance on heroku and it was crashed, so now finally uploaded to appfog
He is now driving the Android Studio development, right?
We are mainly interested in general purpose apps, but games would be ok as well.
Well, dividing the world in them and us is certainly not a very good beginning of a conversation :-|

But aside, the problem is not in the individual problem theirselves.

The problem is that an excessive deregulation is a part of a large process of demolition of the human rights of the great majority of the population.

Paradoxically, such huge problem is difficult to notice, because it requires vision.

In a world where there would be an excess of human rights and slow economy, deregulation would be fine. In such world, I would agree to liberalize the taxing and housing.

We're on the opposite side, though. So keeping deregulating is going to make the disaster we're already in even worse.
This is getting ridiculous. There are so many sites to attack, why Github?
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Wondering who is continuously DDoSign GitHub last time...
Excellent points, and why is the resulting picture larger than the original source image?

Sounds like more BS from this company (I don't have a ton of experience with their products but have followed their promotional materials quite frequently.)
It's encouraging to the rest of us Houston startups to see your progress!
Of all the sites I frequently visit/use, GitHub is by far the one to get DDoS the most often. Anyone has any insights on why?
Maybe some "corporations" are getting "harmed" because there is so much free code around, and they don't like that. I don't know...
This is one of the axioms of the show, and it's utter nonsense. It doesn't stand up to rational analysis. Political "power" is incredibly ephemeral and brittle - just look at Chris Christie.
>settling credit card payments ... may take several days, even weeks.

But there is a trusted 3rd party (the issuing bank) that gives an instant reply as to whether the purchaser's account has enough funds (or credit) to make the purchase, and assumes much of the risk if they are wrong and the purchaser is uncollectible.

Maybe they don't need to take 2-5% of each transaction to provide this service, but it does seem like a pure, anonymous bitcoin transaction can not provide this service to a retailer.
As someone who has used several cross-platform frameworks (Titanium, Cordova/PhoneGap, investigating Xamarin), I have a question about going "full native": how do you handle shared core code? Our app has an engine that drives the business logic, and the cross-platform frameworks have been useful because we don't have to deal with modifying the core codebase for different platforms [0]. Is it possible to create platform-agnostic libraries that can be shared?

[0] Despite the many claims of "cross-platform UIs," we have many cases in our UI layer of doing different things on different platforms.
Any pages marked as "Public" are accessible without a login. As soon as you put any restrictions on the audience, it makes everyone log in to check them against the list.
My dog can also spot food on the cement sidewalk from far away, too far to be just the smell.
I was just thinking that given osx desktop background already has a feature to cycle through a directory of images, if you have imagemagick and curl then to do something that generates backgrounds from online MOTD services could be done in one line of bash.
Mark stated that the missing coins were most likely lost due to transaction malleability. I don't know why he would risk lying for no good reason.
Unfortunately, PHP has replaced VB6 in this way (not in other ways though!).
Is this the only one or we have some other sites like YCombinator?
I just wanna know, is this the only site or we have some other sites like ycombinator, just for sports news, science news or technology news? Thanks :)
More like "job security" reasons as they have less control over webapps than apps.
Seems like a waste of time for however is DDoSign.
Well if your competitor used GitHub for (source control|issue tracking|deploying from a GitHub repository) you could DDoS GitHub (bit of colatoral here and there) for some illegitimate advantage.
We don't sell any information to anyone, nor we collect data that can uniquely identify any user. We are interested in users' actions, time on screens and so on. This is why we wouldn't prefer games. But as I said, games would be ok as well if we cannot find other apps.
Hard to specifically pinpoint, but clearly someone or a group of individuals that don't want to see GitHub succeed.
> So far as admin SSH, once you reach a certain size you generally stop letting admins ssh in from random places and require VPNs (often with crypto tokens), if only because it gives you a easy chokepoint to disable access when you fire people. From what I've seen those most likely to use direct SSH or telnet are small companies (including regional/emerging telcos) that have a handful of people actually running things.

And, as we know, the NSA is actively collecting IPSec handshakes and has (at least in some cases, I'd love to see more info on this) the capability to crack session keys:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/03/12/vpn-v...
I would really like Android to switch over to Musl and drop Bionic, and eventually also drop SurfaceFlinger for Wayland and use an upstream kernel. I can dream...
Any kind of industry with old enough computers that still run Win XP. And there are quite a lot of them.
I think what he means is that early adopters are disproportionally rewarded if additional people use the currency, since mining gets exponentially harder.
They have had some bad press lately....
most "western" countries

Can anyone suggest a country, where there is relatively less corruption?
Except I am pretty sure we are all against blackmail too, so I don't see how this point applies at all.
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Could this be in any way related to Julie Ann Horvath's treatment at the company?
On the other hand, technical founders can make the idea work, but can't get people to use it, which makes it just as worthless (with a lot of wasted time and added stress, to boot). An "ideas guy" who can actually sell those ideas is pretty valuable.
Sadly Geocities is no more.
My company is in the process of moving from our own SVN server to using GitHub. Is this a bad idea in light of all these DDoS attacks recently?
Accidents happen. How would this be any different if a taxi driver killed them and tried to skate responsibility?
sympathy for the devil.

as already stated, the economic impacts were larger than the money owed, and the abstract impacts are untold and likely substantial.

the 'too big to fail' paradigm was novel, and a clear abuse of their position. Most of us are upset at the fact that corporations literally held the idea of 'global financial well-being' hostage.

"Save us, if not only to save yourselves." is not anything that any corporation should ever or ever be able to say, especially to the government of an entire nation.
(black hat) hackers like to get people's attention, gain notoriety. Especially of their peers.
I'm actually switching away from Verizon for my cell phone service this weekend precisely because of their role in destroying net neutrality. I expect T-Mobile to be slightly worse, or at least no better, in terms of service-per-dollar but at least my conscience will be clear. Who knows, maybe it'll even be better!
I'm gonna guess people are just assholes. It's quite the target, considering the number of companies that rely on them for their day to day operations. They can do a lot of disruption/damage with it.
Maybe there's a perception that since Github is mostly "free", there's less likelihood of prosecution? Maybe Github is most visible site that isn't heavily fortified against DDoS? Is there a common DDoS toolkit out there, and Github is in the example.conf?
Honestly if I had the eleventy squillion bytes/s bandwidth of a large DDoS behind me and I wanted to DDoS GitHub ... I'd DDoS the status page too (just for shits and giggs).

But on a serious note, is DDoS'ing a server that serves mostly static content way too hard? I imagine taking out one of GitHub's ways of communicating what's going on is appealing.
As I said earlier, we don't sell or give any information to anyone, nor we collect data that can uniquely identify any user. All data (time on screen, geo, time, locale) is used internally as part of our analytics app.
Who would make a political statement in some obscure internet page that .01% of users use, about a 50 year old war?
If anything this is just a minor annoyance to users. If whoever is responsible gets a kick out of DDoS'ing a site like GitHub for no rhyme or reason they really should find better things to do with their time, i.e. they are losers.
Then we're back to money == power, which is a premise the show argues against.
I had a similar experience. ACA Gold Coverage through Healthcare.gov was 50% the cost of hopping on my wife's existing company health plan, 30% cheaper than COBRA, and 80% cheaper than outside quotes. I was actually shocked at how affordable it was.
Seems like if it were irritating enough to people, lack of upvoting might naturally take care of the issue.
IOS 7.1 jailbroken but only on the iPhone 4
By and large, I prefer to live in a world with taxi and hotel regulation

Why, exactly?
We tried some other marketplaces, but the quality of apps there is not very high. We would prefer an app that solves a real problem.
I don't know, it's happened frequently in the past as well.
Sure, they are "more democratic than most of the rest of the world". And maybe it is also true that it "got more democratic over the past decades". But if you want to assess the state of something from a more universal and neutral perspective you should define a clear criteria and then assess how well these are satisfied.

If you define democracy as something where every citizen can participate equally you can easily come to the conclusion that all these countries in fact are not democracies because clearly these governments often do things that the population does not want. You can verify this easily by looking at some poll results. As soon as there are lobbyists who influence the elected representatives, there is an inequality in the power between different interest groups. This leads to less democratic societies. In our current societies not every citizen can participate equally, therefore these are not democracies. Compare it to a mathematical definition of equality... You cannot say 0.9 is equal to 1 just because it is almost equal. In a direct democracy everyone has almost equal possibilities to participate... In a representative democracy this "almost" get's a little weaker. In a representative democracy with powerful lobbyist groups this "almost" becomes even more weak so that you cannot even call it equal anymore.

So I completely agree when people look at current democracies from an idealistic point of view and say that they are not really democracies. My personal opinion is that a much more ideal democratic society is actually possible with the advances in IT. Direct democratic participation could be possible using end-to-end auditable voting systems with cryptographic methods.
What happened to the Hubot command to redirect the attack to the contracted provider? Surely they can handle it.