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"high speed" can be swapped out for "high quality" in this context.

Spotty connectivity, packet loss, frequent disconnects - all things that come with shoddy internet infrastructure. High speed generally means higher quality.

And let's not forget that even just for work the internet is not only used to send plaintext emails. We video chat, we work with crappy bandwidth-hungry web apps, and those are just the smaller of the hungrier things we can do. At my work I have to download tens of gigabytes of foreign data every few days.

And as someone who works at home and manages a work-entertainment schedule to keep sane, it's pretty pathetic to see people try to squeeze out an "Admit it! You just want a faster netflix!" from others. So what if they do? If you compare internet access to access to drinking water, then high speed internet access is drinking water that doesn't taste like piss. Just because you can live off it doesn't mean it's pleasant.
Let's assume that is all true, the "journalist" not contacting the professor before publishing that article seems quite unprofessional.

I mean aren't real journalists meant to check sources and get both sides of a story (or outside of America anyway)?
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Huh? In the long run, having the maps is trivially easy. Roads aren't naturally occurring. If they can be helpful (which seems certain, since human navigators also rely heavily on having the area they're driving through memorized), why wouldn't we use them?
... very interesting idea; can't wait to get the iPhone/Android apps with push notifications! :-)
I can understand the political barriers to socialized healthcare in the US, for starters it would require a federal tax.

However, I am not buying the scale argument. What exactly makes it hard to scale? The only argument I've heard is that managing all doctors and hospitals, but that is trying to control everything, something that never works when you try to scale out, and isn't necessary either.

If anything the scale enables you to build large and very specialized hospitals that only deal with one particular aspect, e.g. cancer, and do some serious research as well.
Are you seriously arguing to which extent Sweden is not actually racist enough to base its investments into internet technology on merit rather than skin color? What?
And that's one of the reasons if you're not a security expert and stumble upon someone's security problems, you do nothing (at least in US).
Economics education can shift people in a selfish direction?
> aren't real journalists meant to check sources and get both sides of a story

No, they are meant to sell as much ads as possible.
I tried to extend Komodo IDE back when I used it heavily. I had no knowledge of Firefox internals then.

The biggest problem I had with this was the lack of documentation and a sane development environment. Working in an embedded environment makes debugging (and exploratory programming) much harder: you can't just `print` your way through APIs and things. You can't use `pdb`, much less graphical debuggers. This makes developing such extensions painful: you need to learn a whole lot of APIs at once and memorize them before writing even one line of code.

Emacs is better on both accounts. The "self-documenting" part means that there are rich docstrings for every single function you'd want to invoke and that you have many supporting tools for discovering APIs (like apropos). There's a Messages buffer which functions as a stdout, where you can dump whatever you need to see at any point. You can also immediately see the source of any function, even if it's implemented in C. And you have a graphical debugger for Elisp if you need it.

Emacs is a really nice development platform for Elisp and accidentally for other languages. Things like Komodo are great for normal development, but much harder to develop for. That's my impression, anyway.
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Thanks for your feedbacks!
In fact, I developed this tool just to get some help in my everyday work, because I'm used to connect to several SSH at the same time of my customers (My Terminal => Bridge SSH => Target SSH), and it can become a little bit confused with SCP command..! This kind of tool helped me a lot, and I choose to share it with other DevOps/SysAdmin.

@beeskneecaps: I never thought about the link to destroy immediately the file, I'll put it tomorrow, thanks :)

I'm the author, @dizzda on twitter, you'll get additional informations about me.

About the security, i'll be honest, it was just to see if the concept can be interesting for other people, the only security (yet) is that the file will be auto-deleted in 4 hours.
Files are hosted on a private dedicated server. So yeah, you can always take care to encrypt yourself your file before send it there.

If many people are interested to use this tool in a more professionnal-way, I can take some time to think about it...
Anyway, it's just a real pleasure to hear your feedbacks guys! Please do not hesitate!

Cheers,
dizda.
First, a 50% commission rate seems a bit high if that does not even include serving costs.

The biggest question is will they sell the ad space for you and allow you to serve the ads yourself? Even still, this only reduces your serving costs while you still would be paying the commission, which to me seems like the higher of the two costs.

To answer your question about handling the serving of ads yourself, there are several options out there. Probably one of the best known for a managed solution is OpenX (http://openx.com). On the other hand there is Revive Adserver (http://revive-adserver.com) which is self-hosted and is actually the open source version of OpenX.

One caveat of running your own server though will be that you are responsible for your own inventory on the site. You can always fill any remaining inventory with Google Adsense or similar though. Long-story short, I would say unless you have substantial traffic to your site and are making significant money through ads on your site it is most likely not worth the hassle. If, on the other hand, your site has high enough traffic and your current ads are well targeted and have a high action rate for the advertiser you may be able to start selling your own ad space or find a better ad provider with better terms.
This is considered :)
Except waiting 4 days really wont help you against chargebacks.
Oh, re. reliability, I turn mine on every morning, and off when I leave each night. I wouldn't leave it on overnight. One of the other guys has his on a timer, I believe.
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Actually it's 5GB, but it can be more if you seems that can be useful for everyone.
Advertising FB authentication and then telling me in the Android app how I need to copy big strings from a webpage.

Bad UX ;)
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I can't quite see why this type of thing is so in favour at the moment. I also find it slightly disquieting (although admittedly that's got a lot to do with episode 2 of Black Mirror - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Black_Mirror_episodes ).

It just seems like an unnecessary abstraction of willpower - if one already doesn't have the willpower to (for example) limit one's drinking, what is a cutesy game going to bring to the table? I mean, what's to stop me adding "smoke five cigs" or "drink an extra beer" to the list of habits in this particular example?
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Hey - thanks for the answer.

We do receive approximately 1M pageviews a month - with usually 2-3 ads per page.

The company who does the selling now has a sales funnel that we cannot match. Close relationships to big companies to whom they sell very relevant campaigns.

This said, we make approximately $2/3,000 per month with advertising.

I believe it's really small. They say it's because half of the pageviews are on mobile so many of their ads don't show.

Even this considered, I am growing tired of having that revenue amount as my only benchmark. I have been asking for detailed reporting for months and have not received any...

Regarding the choice - why no DFP? It seems to be the easiest one.
Politics is all about the money. Obviously administration is worse at scale too, but it comes down to political will in having the money to do it.

The way you keep a political union together without having it break apart is by limiting the amount of things the members of the union have to share. If you start taxing rich states and funnelling the money over to poor states, you give people a reason to want to break out of the union. Ultimately people only stay if they're getting a good deal.

Taxpayers in New York will definitely be happy if their money goes into the military, as having a New York rather than a US military wouldn't work. But to have all their money go into universal healthcare in Idaho would just piss them off, because people in Idaho can pay for that themselves. That's why healthcare is largely a state matter in the US - you'll find some states have great healthcare, others don't.

I'm not saying the US can't do it better (they clearly can), I'm just saying comparisons with other countries are useless because they don't take into account the unique political realities of the United States.
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Based on your original comment I had the impression our views rather diverge but maybe I got you wrong. Anyway, HN isn't really the place to discuss such matters.
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Do you mean that as good or bad? Controversy can cut either way.
I agree that Denmark don't scale. But that doesn't mean that the current system we have in the US is good or that the insurance based version is by any metrics the best possible solution for the US. You could also think in states instead.

If you look at it from a purely financial point of view the problem of the US system is that when given the choice, younger people don't insure themselves because they are healthy and so don't participate in financing those who are sick by costing the system less.

As they grow older and get sicker they end up paying insane prices unless they are paid by employees and even there the quality of the insurance varies and you still have some really absurd pre-existing conditions rules etc. If you don't have an employer to back you up you are basically screwed.

Obama Care is an attempt at solving this issue. It's not single payer but it's closer and hopefully it will help improving the healthcare system for millions of those without either healthcare or proper healthcare.

Now in my mind there is a middle ground where you pay most of your healthcare yourself (the checkups, the sinus infection etc) but you don't end up in endless debt because you become sick, your kid gets born to early and have to stay at a neonathal facility, for a longer period of time and don't have the right insurance.

And having been through the system I must say that if people think it's less beucratic than say they Danish system (which is much more social in its approach) then they would be mistaken. The sheer number of interests involved in any single episode creates complexity way beyond what seems reasonable.

So agree it's not possible to take a small nation and apply what they do, but it is possible to look at the current system and realize that the healthcare system in the US is def not a feature but rather a system with plenty of room for improvement.
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Microsoft also pushed VBScript in the browser. They've finally dropped support for it in IE 11: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/dn384057%28v=vs.8...
Such a bunch of bullshit hand wavy name calling tripe. I'd respond with eloquence but it's completely undeserved in this case. And to think you call others trolls. That in itself is humorous.
I don't see a problem with printing plumbing. Just switch from concrete to PVC for the tubes.

Electric wires might be a bit tricky to "print". But I can imagine a machine that inserts the wires into the right places...

One day, you'll print a house with curtains and wooden floor included.
You're welcome. I will be in the look out for your next iteration and see how I can help.
Stating that the formula is still a secret after all these years, isn't google-compatible.

http://oozinggoo.com/howto.html
Reading through this, it seemed like a pretty clear-cut case where Bowne had done things right from start to finish. And then I got to this:

"Apparently, committing libel is a common thing for them, and they are comfotable completely ignoring the protests of their victims."

I understand that he's likely under tremendous stress as a result of the allegations that LSU has made, but I'm a bit concerned that in his expression of shock and outrage he has turned to making what appear to be potentially libelous statements of his own.

I hope that his goal of having the accusations withdrawn is not hindered by this momentary slip into hyperbole.
Clearly the article was wrong, but the reporter could only go off of what the hospital told him or her, and that does not seem to have included the professor's contact information. Rather, I'm guessing the message that got out of the IT department was "we got hacked by a professor", which then likely mutated via the rumor mill into the details about a class demonstration.

If anything, I think this shows the hospital gave the professor a lot more benefit of the doubt than I would have expected.

The professor did himself no favors with his email:

I am Sam Bowne, an instructor at City College
San Francisco, and I found two security problems
on your server with a Google search.

Your FTP server has been compromised, and some
files named "w0000000t" were added to it.

If I'm the IT administrator who receives this message, then after reading the first two sentences, I've already jumped to the conclusion that this professor is the individual who compromised my server! "Hi, I found security issues with your server, and now it's compromised!"

Sure, once you've read the intro by the professor, the meaning is clear, but think of yourself as a sysadmin getting this email, without the context of "I just found this, I had nothing to do with it" in your brain, and how are you going to react? Once the idea that the sender of this email is a hacker who broke into your server has entered your mind, it's going to be very hard to interpret it differently. Given that, the guy got treated pretty nicely by the story and the hospital in the end.
Given that Mathmos is in the UK, which is still part of the EU, at least last time I checked, how would they still be in business if bulbs suitable for lava-lamps were banned?

http://www.mathmos.com/astro-lava-lamp-bulb.html

There was an EU law on incandescent bulbs, but it only applies to general purpose lighting bulbs without reflectors, not special purpose bulbs, heat lamps, industrial or automotive.
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In my case, I going through several SSH (My Terminal => Bridge SSH => Target SSH) to get for example a backup. It's just easier for me to get the file back with curl.io instead of using something like SCP in this kind of situation.
Some terminal emulators support in-band file transfers using zmodem. SecureCRT does this.

iTerm: http://grack.com/blog/2011/10/26/automatic-file-transfer-in-...
Sam, if you're reading this, you need to find the newspapers' ombudsman. You'll probably get better results from him/her than the CEO, since their job is specifically to address these issues and in a decent organization will be given the autonomy to do so (no guarantees here!).

It's not clear to be that LSU is responsible for anything more than shitty security. It's possible that they told the newspaper lies, but it's also possible that they told them the truth and that the newspaper misreported. I think reporting them for a HIPAA retaliation may have been premature, unless you know more about this situation than you wrote on your site (as opposed to reporting a HIPAA violation, which this clearly is).

But best of luck going after the newspapers. I'm getting sick of these "journalists" making up lies about the central figures in their stories without bothering to even check with them first to get their side of the story.

EDIT: Aaand, apparently, neither publication has an ombudsman, which tells you a lot already. Not a big surprise with SCMagazine, which is some kind of trade magazine, but it's too bad that even a small-circulation newspaper like the News Star wouldn't have one.
Sorry - edited my post to make clearer the fact that I'm not saying the US's healthcare system is good. I just think that comparisons with other countries are futile. My comment was intended to be a general one about the way politics works in the US.
Does anyone know how this dispatcher is different from WPF dispatcher? Maybe that's the way to sell it.
That is helpful, thanks, but I cannot guess what you mean by "working in an embedded environment".
Your first sentence echoes the sorry state of affairs regarding what passes for journalism these days. Getting all angles of the story and doing fact checking is absolutely the responsibility of the journalist. The author had the professors name - all it takes is 5 minutes of research to get contact information to follow up correctly. The journalist really has no excuse in this matter.
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You may also be interested in an open source library I wrote called EventAPI https://github.com/benaston/event-api
Think there's any significance in the title echoing Bill Gates' book?

I have appreciated Anandtech a great deal over the years; the coverage of AMD's rise to the top with hammer was especially gripping. Thanks and best wishes, Anand.
Not sure why this is downvoted. Reporting a security problem, particularly a significant one, puts you at high risk for unjust prosecution and imprisonment.

Unless lives are at stake due to the security lapse, it's pretty clear to me that the only reasonable response is to go "oh, that's interesting" and then close your browser window and never tell a soul.
Hm, not really. That's just you being pedantic. When you've been a victim of someone else's incompetence you assume that he is an incompetent because, the only reason you know of his existence is because of his incompetence.

Given the fact that many of us believe that the two magazines do not really care about what happened, as much as they prefer getting clicks - a view which is supported by the course of action this story took - it's not a far-fetched claim at all. Especially for a man in his position.

NOTE: They didn't took any action even when notified. The only way for them to remove the article would a letter from a lawyer (or at least that's what I'm getting).
Healthcare is administered regionally, by the NHS trusts, in the UK.

Also, Germany is a federal country of 80+ million people, that's surely a better comparison than Denmark.
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I'm not sure why people inform organizations about vulnerabilities. All what they will get from informing them is to get shock when they slap you on the face and call the police for the alleged hack!

it is better to sell the vulnerability in the underground forums
What are the most impressive Big Data stories you read?
I'm trying to collect the most impressive stories of applications of Big Data for a presentation for non-geeks. I'm looking for something that people can relate to and that it's not impressive from the technical side.
For example:

Target predicting pregnant women: - http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/

Facebook predicting your partner: - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/14/facebook-relationship-study_n_4784291.html

UPS predicting avoiding turning left will save time and money - http://www.businessinsider.com/save-money-gas-avoid-left-turns-2012-3

Do you have any other success stories? Maybe related to healthcare, finance, science?
Neither his position nor his circumstances provide factual backing for the claim that "committing libel is a common thing for them" or that "they are comfotable completely ignoring the protests of their victims".

Being a victim of their incompetence does not give him free license to imagine ways he things that they are incompetent and then express them as fact.

They have not yet taken any action. It's just as likely that they haven't seen his tweet.

They are certainly in the wrong here. But his jab at their moral standing weakens his position, and given the state of business <-> individual relations when it comes to disclosing security vulnerabilities, he wants his position to be as strong as possible in case they do turn out to be malicious and attempt to make the case that he violated their security.
I thought session restore for tmux was awesome, and then I got to know that tmux has a plugin manager and fuzzy history search! brunosutic, you made my day.
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No it is not. Reasonable accessible wind, solar, tidal an geothermal power is many times the global requirements.
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This is a symptom of an unfortunately very common reaction to system security. Unless businesses are actively encouraging bug hunting, almost unbelievably they will act with a lot of hostility to exposure of weaknesses in their systems and will often shoot the messenger with extreme prejudice, even if they receive the information privately.

There are countless examples of people getting burned rather than rewarded or even thanked for bringing to attention some sort of flaw. My advice is do not bother. There is almost no upside for you and likely very significant downsides.
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Thanks for the feedback, indeed I didn't want to use momentjs to overload the speed of the site, but I didn't notice for that mistake, thanks I appreciate :-)
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Go diving. I had about 2 months off in the summer, so I was a dive bum. Was weird going back to work, wearing shoes etc. working for money instead of fills and beer...
or just the wind blown in another direction, so that the fallout happend over the Japanese homeland and not the sea.
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Depends on your background. For me Chapter 28 about "Model Comparison and Occam's Razor" in MacKay's book was an eye-opener regarding the usefulness of Bayesian methods.

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.html

This book is good if you are interested in information theory and machine learning, but it assumes a basic math and probability background.
> If I know the complete wave function of the system, then knowing the wave function at a future point in time is trivial. Just apply the time evolution operator.

But wouldn't the regular measurement cause a collapse onto a randomly-chosen eigenstate of the measured operator? That is, if we have a PRNG based on a regularly measuring the lava lamp, then to predict the state after N steps, we not only have the issue of the randomly chosen N-th measurement but also have to take into account the random results of the N-1 previous measurements, which can potentially evolve into entirely new directions.

Overall, it's difficult to place a lava lamp over human time scales, as both are far from the usual quantum/classical limits: We know that even in thousands of years’ time, Earth will still revolve mostly deterministically (in the classical sense) around the sun. Similarly, electrons will hardly ever behave deterministically. Lava lamps and a couple of years are oddly in between.