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Please read the full report before commenting!

The full report is interesting and much broader than this article makes it sound. The introduction makes clear that this is interim advice, offered after a rapid look at the situation, and that the advice might change. (I agree that forcing people to disclose their real identity to ise a service is a very bad idea).

They could have wanted a bunch of new laws, but have said clearly that those laws are not needed. They have pointed out that a few laws refer to "newspapers" and some small adjustments should be made to include online sources too.

The report mentions a few cases where companies operate in a country but don't wish to obey the laws of that country - they mention Twitter in France refusing to divulge the identity of posters making anti-semitic posts (even when given validly formed court orders).

> 80. Those rules can be admirable: Facebook has a real name culture, a set of community standards (e.g. regarding nudity), enables people to control their own privacy, and enables the reporting of abuse;[32] Twitter have rules against threats of violence, targeted harassment and similar issues. Other operators are less responsible. Irrespective of the responsibility of the website operators, the behaviour with which we are concerned is criminal.

Gentle pet peeve here but Facebook is a poor example: You can't show a woman breast feeding but you can show a woman having her head cut off?

One thing the submitted article doesn't mention is how much time the police spend dealing with online stuff. Frontline officers may be spending half their time on online stuff. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04795tx
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I've never seen someone so butthurt to get downvoted...
Maybe because SF is denser?
> No part of that phrase matches reality.

It's true. When exception handling was added to PHP, RAII was absolutely factored into the design. This is why it didn't get a finally clause to start with -- it's unnecessary.

> Which is irrelevant because once again what PHP has is not RAII it's reference counting

http://www.hackcraft.net/raii/

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

If you have reference counting or stack allocated objects than you can do RAII. You seem to be confused as what these terms mean -- they are not contradictory, they are complimentary. Ref counting allows RAII.
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> By definition sabre-rattling means aggressive displays of power.

Which Argentina, particularly by way of its Navy, has been engaging throughout the 2010s over the Falkland Islands.

> Argentina in democracy has continued to assert their sovereign rights over the Malvinas Islands via diplomatic means.

Among other things, enforcing a de facto blockade using naval forces to prevent innocent passage of civilian vessels is -- as well as arguably a violation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea -- clear saber rattling, not "diplomatic means".

> You are fully entitled to believe the claim is invalid or wrong, but this that not make it sabre-rattling.

You are fully entitled to believe that the claim is valid or right, but that doesn't change the fact that the Kirchener government has been, for years, engaging in, alongside diplomatic efforts, saber rattling in regards to the Falkland Islands.
I don't understand what you wrote about "deferred array copying".

When I ran your code I got "PHP Notice: Undefined offset: 1"

If I removed that line then I got "2 3" which seemed wrong to me since those two variables should have been aliases to the same thing. But copying the values instead of the reference seems slower, not faster.
The Panasonic 18650B cell has the highest energy to weight ratio of any commercially available lithium-ion cell. This is by far the biggest factor. It's also the cell used by many solar car teams for the same reason.
A question for the more knowledgeable: I remember reading that OpenVMS was not ported to i386 (and later) because the CPU didn't have sufficient support. Can somebody elaborate on what exactly CPU features OpenVMS needs?
It really helps, I used to learn Markov Chain Theory in graduate school, but either I was not paying attention, or the tutor did not really intended to get things better-explained, I never truely care about its real life application.

But this tutorial, both visually attractive and expained with real life examples, make me want to re-learn this topic. Just quote one passage:

[if you made a Markov chain model of a baby's behavior, you might include "playing," "eating", "sleeping," and "crying" as states, which together with other behaviors could form a 'state space': a list of all possible states.]

Thanks for sharing!
I don't know much about Mitro but most Password software don't store your passwords as plaintext on your computer. They also don't make it easy to generate random password under certain criteria.

Personally, I'd trust Mozilla with at most my bookmarks/settings/tabs. Keep your security safer with people dedicated to just it. Doubt that's an endorsement for Mitro, though. At least for now.
This is a terrible article. It's cherry-picking some bad calls. Note that it's not giving examples like the experts who said "if we smash these atoms, there'll be a big kaboom" or similar. Experts giving correct or near-correct advice is the norm.

One clear example of where 'dreamers' fail and 'experts' succeed is ponzi schemes. They're very appealing to dreamers, but experts are aware of the fundamental problems with those kind of schemes.
I agree with this. I like the idea of the nomad list as a very quick high level and ranking system, but there are a lot of qualitative factors that I take into account when I move somewhere. I've found blog posts to be really helpful, but they're such a pain to find. It'd be nice if someone curated them.
So now tumblr is spreading to attack brilliant dead old physicists. I guess feminsts just can't get over the idea that some people like to have sex or that some people will use their considerable brain power to figure out how to get more sex.
Or you can go to "account brokers" who sell accounts for something like $20/1000. Reliability of those accounts varies per broker but some I understand to be quite good (never bought any myself).

Hang out on any blackhat SEO forum (or more illegal carding shops, etc. I would imagine) and you'll see plenty of guys peddling this service.

Incidentally, the youtube method you're describing has been automated many times. My first real PHP project was a script that found popular videos on non-youtube sites, downloaded them, watermarked them with my blog URL, and uploaded them to youtube. That resulted in a fair amount of direct traffic.

If you trawl around youtube these days you'll see plenty of watermarked videos that are clearly not original content. But as long as nobody is claiming copyright -- which nobody is doing for cat videos -- Google doesn't give a shit. Honestly, uploading non-original videos to Youtube only helps their numbers.

I think a common misconception is that companies care about fake/"spam" user accounts on their services. But what incentive do they actually have to ban them? In the world of venture capital, user numbers are an incredibly important metric, so as long as they aren't actively diluting the service for other users, companies have an incentive to allow them to propagate and pad their stats.

Take Snapchat for example. Looking at my friend request page, I have dozens of obviously spam accounts asking to be my friends. Is Snapchat including these accounts in their user numbers? Almost definitely. In fact, they probably even count as "active users" because they are "sharing photos" so often!

One has to wonder how many popular services have been built on VC money given to them on the presumption of accurate user statistics, when in reality 20-30% of accounts could be shills. Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook... There are tons of fake users on all of them, and yet these companies make relatively little effort to exclude them from stats (except, of course, when reporting monetization per user).
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I really, really love KeePass2AndroidOffline. The app itself needs no permissions except the ability to read a file from the phone's local storage. Using OwnCloud's app and the "keep a file up to date" feature, I have my KeePass file synced to my various computers and my phone. Plus, KP2A has the "type this password for me" keyboard instead of relying on copy/paste. I didn't realize until I read the docs for another project, the clipboard is an API that can be hooked by other apps to see what's on the clipboard. It makes obvious sense but I never thought about it.
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What about "48. Telecommunications equipment and telephone sales"?
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This isn't reddit where sensationalizing your submission titles is encouraged. Submitters on HN should not be abusing the submission title to gain a privileged place in the discussion (i.e. editorials at the top of the page, unable to be affected by voting in the comments).

If you have an opinion on a submission, submit a comment to it.
Honestly we are already seeing a lot of that - including "ideas" like men can't be raped, you can't be racists towards white people, etc.

Don't ever start reading their blogs if you have any faith left in humanity.

For example I fear what will happen when the author of this blog (http://movethefuckoverbro.tumblr.com/) grows up.

reddits tumblrinaction is collecting plenty of posts from these blogs and making fun of them, which takes much of the sting away.
The main thing is economy of scale.

Fibre that has rolled out in Australia by the Government owned NBN Co averaged around $2300 per premises (for the access nework - you'd need to add on a bit for the transit backhaul and interconnection point with providers). We have a ridiculously high cost of labour too so I'm sure it can be done cheaper. So while it would cost millions, it's actually not that much when you spread it out across enough people. 2000 subscribers would probably be enough to get around that ballpark if most people were up for it.
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> So why don't you innovate instead of copying something that already exists?

The fact is that the two are not only not mutually exclusive, they're interdependent. Nothing is ever 100% entirely new. Every innovation builds on what came before.

The problem is not that people won't innovate. People are innovating. The problem is that someone has invented a new traction control system which they can't sell because someone else was granted a patent on the wheel. In 2011. And your solution is for the actual innovator to reinvent the wheel.
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>"as a girl, I want my roommate to be a girl" is just as sexist as "as a white, I want my roommate to be white" is racist

Depends. Roommates as sharing a room or roommates as sharing an apartment?
What I use it for: my own personal projects where I don't care about security. What I don't use it for: work.

Even if I can configure it down to two clicks it still comes with the cost of having to worry about maintaining a VPS.
I have a different explanation for the hexadecimal addresses.

I get maybe 30 a day, from numerous sources, and they actually turn out to be legitimate message-IDs which were generated by my host when replying to public mailing-lists.

I think some kind of automated spider decided they were mail addresses.
Yeah, I was very surprised to see Athens, GA in the top 5. I was not even aware that they had a substantial public transit system and I lived in GA for ~15 years.
well, you know, apart from those who actually work for facebook. or zynga.

I remember when we all had to create fake facebook accounts about 5 yrs ago when zynga tried to 'acqui-hire' our company just so we could see what farmville was like.

thankfully that didn't happen.
Shutdown my facebook a/c a few months back. Could you send to me directly please? Same username as HN
Yes, things are different elsewhere.
I agree with Taipei. I lived there a few years ago, and I loved it. I'm contemplating going back there for a short stint. The one annoying thing, I remember, was that it was relatively annoying to find cheap short term housing (especially if you can't read Chinese).
HP OpenVMS site http://h71000.www7.hp.com maybe the starting point to further explore it. Also, they have a hobbyist license available for free. I haven't been involved with VMS since 2000 so not sure where such people hang out.

I started my career as Fortran developer on OpenVMS for process control systems and process simulations in early 90s. OpenVMS was the choice platform for most mission critical/ life critical operations and for manufacturing process simulations then.

We ran a few pair of OpenVMS nodes in cluster to operate multimillion dollar petrochemical production facility. The share-everything clustering was cool. I don't think I have seen that since.

Actually OpenVMS helped me make transition from petrochemical to technology in 2000. A tech company was trying to find someone with prior experience in OpenVMS to support customers using their optical storage library management software on OpenVMS/Alpha. That's when I transitioned from controls to data storage.
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"History is littered with the failed predictions of experts."

Which are vastly outnumbered by the failed predictions of dreamers. It's just that no-one expects the dreamers to be right, so all their failures are conveniently ignored.
They are among us and they call themselves Hungarians.

That has to go on a t-shirt.

edit - looking at it this story gets even better. I have heard about the Fermi paradox loads of times, I can't believe I had never heard of the martians before - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_%28group%29

"The galaxy of scientific minds, that worked on the liberation of nuclear power, were really visitors from Mars. They found it difficult to speak English without an alien accent, which would give them away, and therefore they chose to pretend to be Hungarian, whose inability to speak any language but Hungarian without a foreign accent is well known. It would be hard to check the above statement, because Hungary is so far away." - Fritz Houtermans
Average lifespan of a link is 100 days?

This Firefox extension links to Google, Yahoo, Internet Archive and a few other caches, when a 404 is encountered, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag...

Chrome equivalent, but I haven't tested it, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-cache/coblegoi...
Radical feminism? I take it you didn't bother reading the rest of the article: The irony thus seems to be that, just like Feynman was fond of generating cherry picked anecdotes about himself, we seem to be fond of generating skewed, cherry picked anecdotes about him that accuse him of sexism.

The article ends with a couple of paragraphs talking about the author having a more complete, complex, and nuanced understanding of the person that is Feynman, rather than the myth. If having a more nuanced understanding of things is a 'cancerous infection of popular culture', then count me out.
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I just checked the arstechnica one and all items there were also tagged as negative.
If I have understood correctly, the original Foundation (first 4+1 short stories) were themselves inspired by a mammoth tome, The Rise and Fall of Roman Empire.

I would love to know where the idea of mathematically calculable sociological movements came from. (History playing itself out in cycles was certainly not a new idea.) I do know that the stories have inspired a number of economists, and the modern age, big-data driven behavioural modeling does have a certain familiar vibe to it...
I agree that this would be a nice feature if it wouldn't be too much trouble.

I have a million HN bookmarks (and add a dozen more every day) and a "save" method would be very convenient.

Many times I'll drag the "X comments" link to my bookmarks when there is a post that links anywhere (most posts) and the title for those bookmarks are "X comments" which is useless.

+1 for the Save/Bookmark feature!
You don't necessarily need to use it though.

(I wrap around route53 at http://dns-api.com/ and don't yet support any kind of GeoDNS, or health-checks. They're not things users seem to want.)
> Here, we have an example of a company that is knowingly copying something that exists

No we aren't. Not sure how you got that idea. The patents in question are for small and obvious methods that is required for the larger product.

What you are saying is sort of like saying that somebody who invented the motor car is just copying something that already exists if someone else had a patent for the ball bearing.

Innovation requires building on things that already exist. It would be delusional to think anything is completely original and thought of from scratch.
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So what are the features that OpenVMS has that others do not have? (Just curious)
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I guarantee something you do today will require some COBOL to be run on your behalf.
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There is a disturbing number of comments in this thread that have been made without reading the article in full. The article concludes that Feynman wasn't particularly sexist for his time, and there's evidence that he was more egalitarian than usual.

A lot of people are bailing on the article when they hit their trigger words - sad, because one of the fundamental points of the article is that the author is happier because he now has a more subtle, nuanced understanding of the issue at hand. Which is something that the commentors who stopped reading at their trigger words have clearly missed out on.
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Great material!
> we should already have seen by now in the "closed boxes moving around as if by magic" category

I agree if it's true such phenomena must be quite likely. But maybe not in the amperage range that we witness here on earth. There are places in the universe that see amperages 10 billion times higher than what we see here. Perhaps you might see some box-ish things moving out there as if by magic.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-06/strongest-c...
The real fun comes when you can turn remote admin back on remotely.

Oh, god, I wish I was joking.
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If you are moving from developer to manager at very young age, like after 2-3 year in starting of your career phase. Is it good? or should leave the job to find another challenged job which provides challenging technical work.
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Sum types with compiler-enforced exhaustive pattern matching feel like a massive win and are the main thing I'd love to import in to traditional procedural programming. Switch statements and their ad hoc nature pale in comparison.
I've never used it but I read a lot of accounts of superb clustering capabilities. You can have clusters spanning several OS releases on different hardware platforms.
Which is exactly the problem. RTG needs Pu-238, and can't use weapons-grade plutonium, which is mainly Pu-239.
OT but what's up with the font? It's very hard to highlight.
Who is he? An expert?
Nah. But apparently the author is -- or at least is quoting someone who is.
What a stunningly successful PR exercise. The Atlantic will cover it and explicitly mention that its a PR campaign -- essentially, news coverage of PR.
What was your usage patterns with lastpass? For my use cases it works extremely well.
People universally discriminate based on beauty. Studies have shown that even babies do. It really sucks, but the answer is yes. Instagram discriminates.

The real question is whether the discrimination is algorithmic. It seems entirely plausible that several users flagged her photo and that's why it was removed. Then she got disabled for spending half an hour flagging similar photos of people with attractive bodies. Since those photos weren't widely flagged, the system identified her behavior as abuse.

Or it's possible that a human made the call. Either way, I suspect a human will see this soon and the error will be fixed (for this one blogger).
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I formed the opposite opinion. To form a pipeline on unix this is more natural to me:

cat somefile | somecommand

But in DCL on VMS:

PIPE cat somefile | somecommand

That's small beer compared to the way file paths are specified. It's been too long since i last used a VMS cluster so i can't remember the syntax off hand, but it's pretty clunky.
nope it pretty much looks like a dildo.
Thanks for the analogy, but this is missing the point - this thread is about the opposite - real, verifiable, experience.
Yes, and part of that is the area used. The SF-Oakland area used for aggregation contains 3.3M people. The LA area contains 12.3M.
I've been looking for an affordable Adobe Illustrator version for quite a while. I really hope this app will fill the gap that Adobe neglected (why is there a Photoshop Elements and no Illustrator Elements?)

As others have noted, tools like Pixelmater, Sketch and Inkscape each have their own problems, making them an unsuitable Illustrator replacement.
Probably politically incorrect and certainly not a valid sample but in my experience, most fraudulent callers at least have a strong Indian accent and try some sort of Microsoft support scam:

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/11/malwarebytes

The time difference would explain the prevalence of night owls and other factors often used in fraud detection. Only on my direct office phone number, I receive 5-10 such calls a week.
Do we have something like this in SF Bay Area?
I really don't understand why they feel they need to develop their own full firmware rather than contribute to another project like OpenWRT or CeroWRT? Anyone involved care to tell us why?
Just out of interest, what would happen if US courts say they must hand over information, and European courts say they must not?
Ireland is in fact just a bit pissed off, though:

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/micros...
tl;dr -- people are generally bad at predicting the future, but some get lucky.
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I'm dubious. A soldier in a war zone spends 98% or more of his time exclusively in the company of his fellow soldiers, whom he most certainly cannot kill or assault without facing extremely dire punishment. Even when he is in combat, he is only there under very strict orders and does not have very much freedom to do anything other than follow them.
I doubt how much the data can used as an overall generalization. They should analyse the pattern and go little more deeper.

And what is exact meaning of fraudulent user here ?
It is sometimes claimed that x86 cannot support VMS because VMS makes use of four CPU protection rings, despite the fact that x86 has four protection rings...
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The email properties they describe are simply a proxy for the age of account.

Fraud will be highly correlated with freshly created disposable email addresses, it would be rather unlikely that fraudsters would use a thousand accounts that have been active since 1999.

The shown webmail domains, and the numbers in account name simply are correlated with more recent accounts.
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