skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But, in reality, OpenSSL had only one full-time developer and three “core” volunteer programmers in Europe, and operated on a budget of $2,000 in annual donations. This, despite the fact that OpenSSL is used to encrypt the majority of the world’s web servers and widely used by technology companies such as Amazon and Cisco.

There's an interesting statement from our times.
> And while that infrastructure is indeed common and so in a sense a monopoly at that level, there are also multiple cable companies and mobile networks with completely independent infrastructure all the way down. There have even been a couple of impressive success stories where installing high speed broadband infrastructure was too expensive or risky in a certain geographic area for any of the big commercial providers to take it on but the local community devised their own solution, sometimes even finishing up with a better connection than what most of us get in big cities.

This is what I'm advocating for. A public last mile that any service provider can use.
Well... I'm pragmatically there's things I'm going to agree with and things I'm going to disagree with for every. single. administration. So the choices are either working within the context of the system that exists today, or anarchy. Working within the context of the system includes reinforcing the things that can positively affect people's lives (healthcare) and fighting things that can negative affect them (spying). Fighting "the system" as a whole is paramount to advocating anarchy.
I think "I assume X" is pretty clear and honest to the fact I'm making an assumption. I don't understand the need to aggressively emphase it.

In a civilized discourse, if you disagree with my assumption because you know better, you should provide information as to why I'm wrong. And I'll be delighted to obtain this new knowledge.

Otherwise, what's the point of your intervention?
For scientific purposes, could you buy a VPN service for a month and see if that makes it work better? Because then it's just super evil anti-net neutrality on Verizon's part and not actual congestion.
> Doesn't support Visual Studio 2013

That's a really tiny issue which just requires including another header.

https://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=531
These "altruistic" individuals seem to have increased the job base by ~70% without a large negative impact on salaries, which is still well, well above the national average, and still affords a very comfortable lifestyle.

In other words, these "altruistic" individuals have vastly grown the number of people who can earn a comfortable life without large negative impact on the rest.

So between these guys and yourself, who is altruistic, and who is "altruistic" with scare quotes? Who is creating greater good for more people, and who is watching out for themselves?
I am not completely sure without checking the specification but still pretty confident that progressive JPEGs are not made up of several images at different resolution but just have the low frequency component first. And images with text are neither the common use case for images nor the intended use case for progressive JPEGs.
"Hart closes the book in the present, delineating the ominous consequences of the decline of Christendom in a culture that is built upon its moral and spiritual values."

It seems that he doesn't claim in this book that religions monopoly isn't diminishing but rather reaffirms this fact at the same time expressing his opinion that it's bad.
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I've got nothing more to add to the fantastic advice given here, but can I just say a huge congrats on your weight loss! Keep it up!
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It's not exactly proven and would be very hard to prove. That said, nearly everyone thinks electronic markets are better than the alternative. Any electronic market will open itself to algorithmic trading, so what most people are actually worried about are unintended consequences of changes to the current system.

That and for most people who actually understand the mechanics what is going on, the current system seems way better for the vast majority of people than the one it replaced, so we have little reason to change.
It's not just Netflix, it's also YouTube (http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/), and Level3 (http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/observations-inte...) and you can be sure those aren't the exception.

Instead of fulfilling their obligations to provide advertised bandwidth to their paying customers (who only pay them in order to access the content provided by someone else), the last-mile providers are using their customers as hostages while they negotiate ransom from the content providers. While they also report record profits (sending their customer's payments back to stockholders instead of into the network), because the economics of their business are compelling on both the consumer side (low expectations, minimal support costs, essentially no competition) and on the technology side (network technologies increase capacity-per-$ as fast or faster than traffic grows).

Oh, also, 99% of the last-mile providers operate a sanctioned monopoly that has let them build and grow their networks with essentially guaranteed income from rate-payers and essentially no competition. Hence adding Internet is relatively low-cost and highly-profitable, but apparently not profitable enough.
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When we were acquired the stack wasn't too much of a concern. What was a potential issue was open-source libraries that did not have the appropriate licensing.
This is a two way street. Verizon customers are demanding content from Netflix. Peering agreements are based on a mutual benefit, in that both sides will use relatively the same amount of bandwidth. Now the bandwidth usage is lopsided towards Netflix, and Verizon is stating this is no longer a mutually beneficial relationship.
I also think the ticketing system is great, but it looks like Next is adopting service charges from the traditional ticketing industry. It's a bummer to see such a non-customer friendly practice like that tacked on to an innovative idea.
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(side-reply as direct reply is either in cool-down or limited due to depth)

Interesting, I hadn't really looked into 802.11alphabetsoup in terms of ad-hoc vs infrastructure -- wasn't aware the ap was a bottleneck. The natural next question is if there are any standard secure forms for ad-hoc networking?

It would seem that shared-secret should be easy enough (but probably with the same/similar security issues as other shared-media networks in addition to the possibility of guessing the key). Some form of certificate authentication, or kerberos like shared-secret-trusted-mediator should be possible? But having a look around, I can't seem to find any - certainly not any that could be expected to work with standard OSs and devices...?

I suppose one could simply use an unsecured ad-hoc network + vpn for routing? Still I don't know of any VPN-styles that would allow broadcast traffic over such a mesh network?

[edit: It would appear the olpc projects has done some work in this area: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mesh_Security

ed2, also: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mesh_Network_Details

And: https://github.com/cozybit/open80211s/wiki/HOWTO
]
And one odd thing I noticed with these conferences is that some of the speakers are serial - meaning they do conference after a conference, which makes me wonder if that's a full time job - if so, are they not practicing what they preach?

This is a good question.
Red flag for me.

You have been doing this for a decade...and still consider yourself junior?
I really dig this feature and would love to see it extended to AI files as well!
Except that the progressive image is delivering ~1000 _fewer_ bytes than the original (if my quick skim of the numbers is correct) - now I'm guessing that's because the original isn't particularly well optimised to start with, but I don't thing progressive jpegs in general add much to the payload size. It doesn't "transmit worthless information", it's more like it "re-orders the way it sends the information, so that even at only 10 or 20% loaded you get some very strong hints about the content."
At the risk of diving too deep into a semantic discussion...

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

"Last Mile" is a common telco industry term. It's not about framing, it's the correct term for the connection. It does not connote any specific value to the connection relative to others, nor is it derogatory. It's simply saying where in the network the connection lives. A "last mile" connection is not an inter-network connection, it's a specific link within the network that your ISP has built from the rest of their network to you, the individual customer.
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I understand your concern, but how about just a similarly controlled space in Boulder? There are a few to choose from, each with adequate equipment and personnel.
Because I am based in the EU.
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well in fairness I had a bit of experience in software design -- ancient but relevant. We are redoing the entirety of the site now... keeping the good, improving the rest.
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The government isn't one thing. It might be worth doing some reading on systems thinking, for instance some of the writing by Donella Meadows. People inhabit a government system and they either set boundaries for themselves, or have those boundaries asserted onto them; boundaries between their area of influence and other areas of the system they consider out of bounds. If they didn't, no one would be able to focus and get things done.

People often think that the failings of a system are chiefly because of the motivations of the actors in the system. But what's more accurate is that the failings are often because of the structure of the system, and the inhabitants often don't feel they have the ability to change the structure.

The least effective way to change the behavior of a system is to twiddle the various buttons and knobs that each inhabitant has ready access to. The most effective way to change the behavior of a system is to change the overall goal of the system, which would necessitate a complete restructuring.

So that's why it is easy to believe that various NSA wrongdoings aren't entirely because of nefarious motivations (although that is probably part of it), and very much driven by system structure (log and analyze data) that simply weren't "checked" as their technological tools and abilities increased over time. What many of us have failed to realize is that our own personal security has been a form of security-through-obscurity in the past. We can put personal data up on a website and not tell anyone, and before search spiders, it might have stayed private. But we can't expect such a website to stay private these days, because of how technology has increased. It's the same with our private data, and how our browsing habits can be mined to create freakishly accurate personal profiles. There was never any privacy protection there to begin with other than obscurity, and we just convinced ourselves it was there by believing in social mores that hadn't been challenged until technology increased too much.

Meanwhile, the health system was about constructing an entirely new structure/system for health insurance, benefits, and penalties.

So... I wouldn't say it is a matter of compartmentalizing. It's more a matter of appreciating that the government is a huge collection of disparate systems and motivations, and that there can be simultaneous breakdowns and successes.
> act to make the question of suing the NYT, WaPo, etc. not as easy as you make it sound

No, not "suing" the NYT, WashPost, etc. The Espionage Act is armed with felony criminal sanctions. The nuclear option would be for FedGov to indict the news organization, do no-knock raids on the homes of their reporters and editors involved in the story, seize computers (ala GCHQ), etc. The reason FedGov has not is left as an exercise to the reader.

But more broadly, you're attributing views to me I do not hold. I wrote about the Espionage Act at some length here -- this may set you straight (I don't have time or the inclination to do it here):
http://www.cnet.com/news/wikileaks-could-be-vulnerable-to-es...
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OpenBSD did not want to be on the list of distros to be notified[0].

It's no conspiracy due to LibreSSL, but maybe rather Theo's ignorance.

[0] http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=139906348230995&w=2
From the article:

Backend/Aggregator agnostic (includes multiple log transports)
Supports any Syslog-based log manager
Loggly, Splunk, Logstash, Rsyslog/Syslog-ng
ZeroMQ
NSQ transport – used internally at AutoRef.com
Generic UDP/TCP
And soon: AMQP and Redis (and later: Scribe? Fluentd?)

It deals with the specific problem of collecting the logs from the applications on your servers and shipping them to an aggregator (of which there are already many, e.x. Loggly, Splunk, Logstash)
Not surprised at all. Most businesses these days dream up any excuse they can to email you within the confines of the law.

Gotta maximize that traction to further synergize revenue streams.
The failure more is very different. On log partition disk full log writes will fail, which you favourite logging library might decide to ignore. A misbehaving FUSE daemon can hang applications that write files and assume it's a local disk.

A smart logger can have a writer thread and a buffer and decide to drop log lines if the logger is too slow. But LoggerFS is meant to be a drop in solution for legacy code, so the concern is perfectly valid.
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How many logging frameworks don't already support syslog?
Will trade security assessment for one meal.
> the carriers really want competition so they will encourage other phones when they can.

I've yet to meet any carrier who wants competition, for anything. Their ideal world would be that they would decide which phone the customer can have, what limited service the customer can buy, and how much it is, and take-it-or-leave it. That's how AT&T worked, and every major carrier today is a spin-off from AT&T and still thinks pretty much the same way.
Maybe. Anecdote is of course not entirely useful, but I know a former employer I worked at tried to find some local staff in the EU (NL) for one of our datacenter locations. After speaking with a local attorney about the requirements, instead we simply rented an apartment and cycled US-based techs through on 3 month intervals. It was far easier than dealing with hiring a full time local to do the same job even after including rent, airfare, and a company vehicle.

Less regulation and that would have been at least one, probably two, decent mid-range salary jobs for local IT folks fresh out of school.
It's going to be funny when we reach the end of this social road and we're all back on myspace essentially. Customizable personalized spaces where we share music, videos, and pictures of food.

Tom Anderson is my hero. The guy lives on a new beach every week while Zuckerberg is working 24/7 to rebuild myspace.
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There's only one conference I've found to break this mold, and sadly, they shut it down. It was called LessConf, and it was the only conference experience that left me inspired and happy with the money I spent.

The anecdote I share is that it was the only conference I'd attended where people weren't looking over your shoulder for someone 'more important' to talk too.

Bring it back you bastards, and I'll volunteer to help.
I posted a five-part response on Twitter to Marc A, which he just retweeted (it doesn't mean he agrees with me, of course, but at least is a signal that he read it):

https://twitter.com/declanm/

I think @pmarca is right in that many technologists suspected the scope of #NSA surveillance pre-Snowden (I’ve made the same point). 1/5

And @pmarca is also correct that early #PRISM reporting was spectacularly wrong (despite my efforts at the time to correct the facts) 2/5

But original documents matter, especially for legal challenges to warrantless bulk surveillance of Americans’ phone records. 3/5 @pmarca

And Snowden’s acts don’t amount to treason, which is the one crime defined in Constitution. Don't fit definition. Shouldn’t. 4/5 @pmarca

Snowden DID violate the #Espionage Act’s prohibition on “publish[ing]” classified SIGINT docs. But so did hundreds of reporters. 5/5 @pmarca

Not only reporters. All you folks on Twitter linking to leaked NSA SIGINT docs are violating Espionage Act ("makes available..."). 18USC798
I'm going to guess they didn't. Most nationwide surveys generally indicate that "no religion" outnumbers all the other minority religions combined, so if they had the maps would presumably have been a lot more boring.
The telcos are publicly traded, but not publicly owned in the sense of being government-owned and regulated. And that's one of the bigger problems here - the last-mile physical infrastructure should probably be publicly owned.
That was exactly what caught my eye about this piece -- it's really informative seeing how a completely different industry addresses issues, even when using similar data-driven techniques.
One important dynamic is that contracting, due to its slippery nature, attracts the kind of people whose skill is siphoning money away from government while minimizing what they deliver.

Think about it: Even contracted physical construction gets screwed up in large scale government projects, and building good contracts about software development is much harder that contracts about physical construction.

In-house development simply doesn't have the kind of indirection where the bloodsuckers can get in.
Are you sure they shut it down? It seems like there's a LessConf happening in Savannah, GA Aug 22-24 2014.

http://lessconf.lesseverything.com
Really cool to see the Baha'i faith mentioned in something like this, and I was really surprised to see South Carolina as the epicenter. For those interested, our House of Worship in the US is located in Illinois: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1'%C3%AD_House_of_Worsh...
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Another little secret is the first priority of those speakers who are telling you their startup story and giving you advice is to impress you, not actually give you any useful advice.

Whatever stories of their startup they tell you are whitewashed, and any "juicy" details they tell you are exactly the type of wants they want to tell you because it will reflect some particular quality they want it to. There is nothing wrong with this, that is their incentive. But obviously for you this is a giant waste of time, and kudos for figuring it out.
Simplify and get to the point. Here's a template: http://cl.ly/Vvjx.
Actually, it was both content and quality. They used to advertise that a cable signal was clearer than one from an antenna and stood up to weather, etc.
I imagine recording a discussion is particularly stifling when it pertains to government contracted work. In government it's all about how blame should be assigned and not about moving forward productively.
in the sense that it is utterly wrong, I suppose so...

in reality, openssl appears to be a $1mm+/year for-profit fips consulting business [1] that appears to not care much about security, letting serious security issues sit in their bug tracker for years on end

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBbhXBDmwU#t=559
> There do remain times when JSON is a better fit than something like Protocol Buffers, including situations where:

> * You need or want data to be human readable

When things "don't work" don't you always want this feature? Over a long lifetime, this could really reduce your debugging costs. Perhaps protocol buffers has a "human readable mode". If not, it seems like a risk to use it.
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Service charge is literally the charge for restaurant service -- instead of a 'tip'. It's not a charge for the tickets.

We do that because of Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) makes tipping difficult if you charge ahead... or if you want to share revenue with cooks.
Even if you don't release it until after a successful open enrollment, please record video! And please, during Q&A, remind the speakers to repeat the question so it's captured on audio! Or capture the audio from the active audience microphone!
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I believe that the solution is forcibly separate infrastructure from service. The same company that provides the infrastructure should not be the same company that provides the service to the customer.

There are several nations around the world where this is the case. It reduces the barriers to entry for ISPs, creating an environment where there are dozens of ISPs to choose from with differing levels of customer service and pricing plans.

The primary problem with Comcast and Verizon is that they can leverage their customer base as a negotiation tactic rather than solely on the state of the network.
By the way, on the offchance you're not aware of it: the single most compelling things on your resume are both buried behind "more details..."

The following suggests substantial technical competence at multiple levels, which is both above the level which you self-identify as and is not hinted to elsewhere in the resume:

Features of CRM: Shopping Cart, API for Bookscouter etc to pull in quotes, Sort and Filter orders using AngularJS, Sort and Filter Files assigned to Buyers(payroll, etc..), Drag and drop files, and assign files to buyers using inline editing.

Api's used: Amazon Product API for book data, UPS Shipping API for shipping labels.

Cache/Sessions: Redis.

Server Stack: 2 App Servers w/ content duplicated via GlusterFS and served up via nodebalancers. 1 Central Storage Server for Redis, File Uploads, Analytics(Piwik), Mysql(Master). All reads come from a local mysql slave, w/ writes going to the master. Nginx + php5-fpm php5.4 + APC + Varnish.

The following contains specific examples of business value which you've created with your SEO/marketing skills, as opposed to the body of the resume, which says "Managed many wordpress installations, and seo marketing campaigns for multiple sites.":

Achieved 1st rank in google for keyword 'final expense'. Made all technical decisions and handled everything relating to the web properties.

That's an unfortunate way to phrase that accomplishment, since many people do not work in insurance and don't realize that what you really accomplished was:

"Created a system which produced insurance leads, adding hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue per $TIME_INTERVAL. The system operated at zero marginal cost per acquisition, a substantial improvement over the industry standard of spending 30% of gross revenue on acquisition."
I just hope they grow up. I can't read anything anymore, and it's entirely due to use of grey over black.
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I actually wrote exactly the same thing years ago (2007), even had the same name :)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/loggerfs/
Actually, this is not what is happening here. A negative interest rate for central bank deposits means that instead of the central bank paying money to commercial banks, commercial banks are now paying the central bank. So if anything, this is taking money out of the system.

Overall, it's unlikely to change much at all.
I cannot imagine a scenario that any of the points of criticism mentioned pose a real problem. UX problems arise when things are ugly, when they get in your way, when they surprise you more than they should or when they limit the accessibility, which is clearly not the case here. It's irrelevant bike shedding because OSX is 'sexy' enough anyway; there is not enough to gain that could justify the energy people put into it.

http://xkcd.com/1015/
Very cool. Taking a look and signed up for the Eventbrite above.