skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly why sync is not a commodity. Dropbox is the very best at what they do, and even they have bugs. So when someone offers to sync your files for less, ask why.
Did you read it all? It talks about the NSA infiltrating companies and backdooring encryption. It's important to publish this.
I started to read Alderman v. US after Forrest said that 4th Amendment rights cannot be vicariously asserted. I'm a little unclear on how this works. Could an investigator warrentlessly burgle the residences of two conspirators A & B, and use evidence found in B's place against A and evidence found in A's place against B, all without violating the fourth amendment? How about email accounts? If so, why don't investigations against known conspirators proceed this way all the time?
You're comparing apples to oranges. Riding multi-day bicycle race is completely different from the running a single marathon event. Some people run marathons every day, for a year (http://edition.cnn.com/2011/SPORT/02/05/marathon.record.enge...). It's hard to argue that that would require no less endurance than Tour de France (or Vuelta).
TREE-META (1968) was SRI's last public metacompiler in a line that began with META II (1963), http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TREE-META

More recently, OMeta (2007) was developed at Alan Kay's VRI, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMeta
>life insurance has never paid out for suicide and doesn't now.

In the USA, life insurance does cover suicide, as long as it is not within 2 years of the issue date.
Twitter allows some degree of theming (color palette, banner, avatar), but I agree that these services definitely force you into a certain standard of representation or communication and it's probably helped them grow. There's something to be said of branding and "omakase".
Every SoC has a different kernel, heavily patched, with drivers specific to the SoC. The SoC vendor has an army of paid programmers developing this software for every SoC they make.

These Soc vendors have to start working on a new kernel long before the chip is released, as they need working software by the time the chip goes to market (to offer the router makers). Broadcom's business depends on this. They will not simply hope some loose-knit group of volunteers will timely produce software which will help them sell their new chips.

And it's not realistic for the open router project to do this much work. It would require cooperation from the SoC vendors, providing free and early access to their kernel driver source and complete documentation for their chips. I don't see this happening.

At best the open router project could release software for hardware which is already a year or two old.

Sorry to be such a pessimist, but the incentives to make this work are just not there for the businesses involved.
I participated in a Google hosted one a while back and it was great fun. There is a great push and pull between trying to be as random as possible while attempting to exploit non-randomness in your opponents.

I ended up going with a 'many demons' solution whereby I had many strategies voting on what the guess should be and I modulated the weight of their votes based on their success. I also used 'sicillian logic' to make meta-strategies that simply voted on a move that would win/lose to the guesses of my other strategies.

One thing I always wanted to try was to cheat. Flood the submissions with bots that would attempt a pseudo-random-looking handshake. If it failed the bots would act randomly. But if it succeeded they would perform a pre-determined pseudo-random pattern that my one true bot would exploit to boost its rating.
That's not a refutation, it's a contradiction. The evidence offered is not sufficient to actually prove the assertions. In particular, those crash frequencies need to be normalized against the reduced capacity in order to be a meaningful comparison. If narrowing the road decreases crashes because fewer people are using the road, you don't have a safer road, just less road, and you may have merely shifted the crashes to alternative routes. On the other hand, if narrowing the lanes makes people drive more carefully without significantly constricting flow, that's a real result that deserves to be stated clearly.
Go-promise: A library implement futrue and promise in Go
I have heard this view, but is it actually supported by the data? That is, do comebacks happen with any significant frequency in high-level DotA?

For example, in all of the finals of the recent International, there was a leader at 10m who won the game. I'm not going to go through all the games and check, but I'd guess we'd find this to be true the vast majority of the time in professional DotA games, as it is in League games.

Not to make too sweeping of a generalization, but I expect it is inherent in games with an economy and relatively low random factors. On top of the normal expectation that who gains a lead is likely to be more skilled, economies that allow you to build additional strength via the dominance conferred by your current strength reinforce existing leads.
How do I play YouTube videos in the terminal?
Innovators Abroad
It is really damaging, but that's from a perspective that, as a superpower, they were benefiting from control and domination. The same perspective implies that the target was being damaged by these actions. Targets that are not always adversaries. Targets that could contribute if not being controlled, dominated, and damaged.

It's not easy to see, but damaging others denies them the contributions they could bring, ultimately damaging themselves.
Yup.

Plenty of leaks before on infiltrating companies and backdooring encryption. Was there anything in particular?

Edit: Nothing in particular then I guess... :(
> OK. I'm not associated with the service, but as I'm in tough spot in my business, I'm looking for some advice.

> $10 for advice seems quite cheap.

Do you really think you'll get a real sound advice for 10$ dollars?you're kidding yourself.

On the other hand,the guy should really sell some book on how to rip off people of 10$ dollars without doing anything valuable,because it seems there are potential clients here.

If you're desperate about your business,consult a lawyer or a financial adviser.Yes it's expensive,but better spend 10 minutes with someone that has serious credentials than losing 10 bucks from a scammer.
"subverting controls that inhibit free consensual activity between adults is virtuous."

It depends entirely on what that consensual activity is. If the activity is selling stolen credit card numbers, then it's facilitating theft and doesn't seem virtuous at all, since it's harming a third party. If it's exchanging kiddie porn, again it's harming a third party. If its selling malware, then it's a free exchange with the intent of violating others privacy or otherwise harming them, which does't seem virtuous at all to me. But those were all services that Ulricht not only knowingly facilitated, but worked to specifically facilitate. While I don't agree with the US drug laws, assuming he was responsible for the Silk Road, Ulricht was choosing to facilitate many sorts of exchanges that while consensual between the parties involved in the exchange, were exchanged motivated by profiting off the harm of other parties who weren't consensually involved, but were either victims of crimes or were victimized by the use of the product of the transaction.

"The indictment reads like a product of zeal and overreach, not a dispassionate document outlining a person's conduct and how it clearly violates plain language."

I dunno, they laid out a pretty clear case of what the law was and how it was broken in my reading. He was pretty clearly violating various criminal conspiracy laws that were written to deal with just the kind of thing he was doing.
I am not Zuck and won't pretend like I know what he meant by rejecting that million dollar check but if it was me, I would take it to mean I live modestly, that million dollar doesn't do much to impact me.

That said, money should not be the focus. There is a difference between focusing on money as the reason vs money is the byproduct of what you care about doing. In this regard I can relate.
"Well... next time will be macaroni and cheese"
Reminds me of the clever strategy that won a prisoner's dilemma contest.

http://archive.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/10/6531...
So, someone with short-term amnesia cannot be considered conscious?
Thank you for the encouragement : )

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you run into problems with the content.
I remember Nathan Marz saying that Storm is the most active project on Github about a year ago. ;)
Tools for Creating Screen or Online Presentations
So....

Yes, it seems likely that drugs have been a factor in the increased speed of distance runners. Sadly, the testing procedures for athletics are notably worse that for cycling (especially in the offseason).

However running does have one critical difference compared to cycling that gives a small glimmer of possibility that some runners might be clean and competitive with dirty runner.

In running, "running economy"[1] is a huge factor in performance, and is quite variable and can be improved with training[2]. In cycling there isn't really a similar factor (except for a cyclists weight): the ceiling of non-doped performance over a 40+ minute timeframe seems to top out at around 6.4 Watts/kg, and that can be projected directly onto a given climb to calculate the best possible time. Yes, tactical factors, weather and measurement errors make that seem more precise than it is in practice but the point is that there does seem to be a genuine ceiling on output.

In running that ceiling hasn't been found. Running economy is measured by putting runners in a closed-system and measuring speed vs energy usage. Elite runners generally are more efficient than non-elite, but no one really knows why.

However, it has been proven that running economy can be improved by training with runners who are faster than you[!].

Two points here: some runners might be clean and be beating dirty runners through better economy (which they might have obtained by training next to doped runners), and secondly it might be possible to find methods to improve economy dramatically.

(Road cyclist, sometimes runner, eternal optimist here)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_economy

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15233599
Well at least he's got a high IQ =P
I am finding it hard to escape the conclusion that consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe that manifests in localized systems that feed back on themselves. I have seen convincing evidence that consciousness is illusory based on experiments where it can be induced to make testably wrong feelings. But then you are right back to what it means that there's anything to perceive something even incorrectly, or the idea of an illusion without a thing having the illusion. I suppose this requires some sort of leap of language and understanding of the world, and I'm not clear you could do anything useful with that knowledge since it's impossible to experience anything as a human except subjectively. Arguing against consciousness seems to me like a religious person arguing that something had to create the universe or it wouldn't exist, to a scientist. The scientist can just say "I don't have to entertain explanations for why it shouldn't be here because the fact of its existence settles at least that much." this isn't an argument against studying consciousness or limiting theories about it, but it's not something that can be declared nonexistent.
I thought there were many robust open source solutions out there and what made dropbox the winner was not that it is able to reliably sync, but that they made it easy to install and sync.
What about FedEx?
Anyone into running will tell you their favorite days are overcast, cool, and even a little drizzle doesn't hurt. Hell, my favorite time to run is the winter.
The sync heavy lifting in Dropbox is handled by librsync, or at least was at one point. librsync is very mature open source software, and this bug pertains to a particular interaction between the Dropbox GUI and a feature (selective sync) which they have somewhat tacked on to the core library. Long story short, you don't necessarily have to be Dropbox or employ a couple hundred software engineers to get inotify + rsync working well.
I say: go for it.

Dive into it fulltime. Do not take outside money.

From my experience, risk takers have the better life. On average. That doesn't mean you could not end up fucked. But that's the whole point of risk taking.

And for outside money - I have been screwed so often and so hard by business partners. Maybe it's just a personal thing. But if I had to give my young self an advice from the future, it would be: Don't entangle with others.

Oh, and I think you completely overdramatize this. Don't pretend you are preparing a flight to the moon. Just make a real minimal viable product in a month or two. And see if people use it. I have seen people with dedication going from not being able to program to having a working thing generating money in less then 2 months. Its all about going into it with 100% full force. If you tinker with a project on the side, my bet is that it will fail.
Yes, it is similar in spirit to IPython.

We have been developing pigshell off and on since ~2012, and I was unaware of IPython notebooks until ~6 months ago. When I'd last used IPython, it didn't have any of the notebook stuff. So it was a bit of a jar to see that they had been there, done that, got the T-shirt, published the book, etc. etc. :)

Pigshell can run in the browser with zero installation, and has a low barrier for casual usage. "Notebooks" aka gists can be shared without requiring a backend. The focus of pigshell is more around providing file adapters for web/cloud data stores.

That said - more power to IPython! I love the conversational, exploratory, CLI style of interacting with a computing environment. The more ecosystems of this sort, the better.
Are you saying it's retribution for participating in the global cyber intelligence war?

Everybody is hacking everybody. Every major country has a cyberintelligence arm. The NSA is just one actor of dozens.
Hi Todd,

Except in the case of MR 2100 nodes the entire dataset fit in memory :)
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. My point was, flying is safer and avoiding flying leads to more deaths from traffic accidents, which are way more common. The coworker is more likely to have her entire family killed getting to Disney by car than by plane, especially from ebola.

People don't always make rational decisions, and sometimes that can cost a dear price.
I visited San Diego (I was living in the UK at the time, and found it impossible to get anywhere. I was routinely told that only poor people caught the bus (and it could be dangerous), and there were no pavements anywhere to walk on. I walked to the nearest burger place for lunch every day, a hellish 1-mile jaunt through rubbish-strewn wasteland getting beeped at every time I tried to cross a road.

In contrast, every European and Australian city I've lived in has catered for pedestrians and cyclists to the extent that it's at least possible to walk or bike anywhere you need to go (even if it would take hours in these huge Aussie cities).

I still wonder at it. How do Americans feel about living in such a shitty environment?
>The Fourth Amendment doesn't require that investigators get a warrant to look at information that you've already handed over to a third party. //

You're right, if they ask that third party to see it. But if they don't ask, they hack in, then they're breaking the USC that protects against unauthorised access to computer systems [18 USC 1030?].

The third party usually will have a legal requirement not to divulge your info without a warrant (except perhaps under conditions threatening national security). I'm not sure on this for USA, most countries have laws protecting personal information; your contract binds the company to not disclose information but a warrant supersedes that ... but presumably there's not a general regulation forcing companies to disclose information to authorities who merely request it as opposed to getting a warrant. That would be most undemocratic.

Thus under rule of law, despite the Fourth not applying, the FBI would still need to get a warrant before either hacking in or making the company disclose the information, no?

Like, they can open your mailbox as the postal service own it, but if it's locked then they'd need to get the key/authorisation from the owner (or they'd break the law, breaking and entering or bypassing security or somesuch). If the owner says "no" then they'd need a warrant (legally speaking) to force the owner to open the box and take your post out. If they just break in and take the post it's not a Fourth Amendment violation against you, AFAICT, but it's still unlawful.

IMO the evidence should still be used but the fact of the evidence being obtained means that if submitted by the state it's also evidence that a person working for the state committed a crime. Rule of law means that person should be tried as should any co-conspirators. But this last para is just my idea of democratic responsibility and not how things are.
damn, can I send you my $10? That's at least a $5 joke in any housing market.
Great idea - I'm excited to try it out! FYI - the project name is a slang term for french kissing in Australia and New Zealand, if you weren't aware. Not that I think you should change it - but thought you should know :)
No idea why you're being downvoted. Having high-altitude adaptations certainly helps:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_adaptation_in_hu...
So the argument goes something like this:
Because my brain models things imperfectly it follows that my model of my self awareness is imperfect therefore doesn't exist.
What?
And then the title suggests there is evidence for this, but doesn't present any.
Zero Knowledge:The Absolutely Awesomest, Bad-assest Thing You'll Use
This talking point needs to be squashed immediately:

I think that you have right to privacy but that doesn't mean that you have the right to anonymity

It almost sounds reasonable, like a compromise of sorts. And that is deeply troubling.
Because of this. It's likely the NSA is actively subverting American companies.

"The most controversial revelation in Sentry Eagle might be a fleeting reference to the NSA infiltrating clandestine agents into “commercial entities.” The briefing document states that among Sentry Eagle’s most closely guarded components are “facts related to NSA personnel (under cover), operational meetings, specific operations, specific technology, specific locations and covert communications related to SIGINT enabling with specific commercial entities (A/B/C).”

It is not clear whether these “commercial entities” are American or foreign or both. Generally the placeholder “(A/B/C)” is used in the briefing document to refer to American companies, though on one occasion it refers to both American and foreign companies. Foreign companies are referred to with the placeholder “(M/N/O).” The NSA refused to provide any clarification to The Intercept."
There's no doubt that some particularly bad routers out there are vulnerable to RCE by default (usually because they have remote management enabled by default and have an authentication bypass issue or some other dumb flaw on the login page), but it's definitely FUD to speculate that someone can wipe "all the routers on the Internet".

Most routers are incredibly insecure, but a good portion of those vulnerabilities can only be triggered if you share a LAN with the router or have and can widely deploy a XSS/CSRF exploit.
Playing with the Hacker News API Using Guzzle
The scope of their consciousness might be impaired, but they would still be somewhat conscious.

However, if you literally cannot remember anything the moment you look away from it, then yes, I would argue that constitutes unconsciousness. Without an internal state to influence your actions, all you're left with is reflexes.
'Citizenfour' Reveals Existence of Second NSA Whistleblower
Right. But that's not new information. Prior Snowden leaks (and leaks by others) have showed conclusively that the NSA targets and infiltrates American corporations and also partners heavily with them.
I really don't like the typography. In one page you'll find serif, sans-serif, all-caps, bolded, italicized, black links, blue buttons, green buttons, barely visible gray links.. it's a mess. Every revision they make to the home page (top stories) feed seems like a step backward in readability.

The content is usually good but it's still annoying that Quora impedes you from sharing it with others that aren't also on Quora.
Fake Meat and Digital Mimicry
see also: http://srp.stanford.edu/
Can the FBI issue subpoenas in the USA, don't they need the court to do that?

My reading of the Cybercrime Convention they claimed to use (see my other post) means that if they needed to get a subpoena then they would need to get one before the Convention could be applied to compel the Swedish authorities to perform the search on their behalf.

They don't appear to have got a warrant, a subpoena nor any judicial oversight before ordering the initial search and seizure - that appears to break the Convention. Perhaps that's why there's a footnote saying they may have asked the Swedes just for comity's sake, it's so hard to remember!

What I'd really want to see to prove their position is the captured packets from their initial probing of the publicly available homepage that include the IP addresses. That would show suggest they were telling the truth [eg when matched with other peoples captures that the FBI don't yet have access to]. I'm going to go ahead and assume that they don't have that data. IMO if they can't produce that data it demonstrates the personnel in court are either completely incompetent in their positions as investigators and should be fired immediately or they are flat out lying; something tells me they're largely competent.
Even if people are not suicidal, they are incredibly bad at determining what is actually safe vs what they feel is safe. Very famously 93% of American drivers reported themselves above average in driving ability - math tells us that is impossible. How many times have you heard someome say they can drive just fine drunk? You've got people terrified of a hypothetical terrorist attack, yet will think nothing of texting and driving.

Yet you can somehow concluded that "if I'm not hearing about it (on the news no less!) it doesn't exist?"
The Constitution applies to the government, it is a white list (to use a racist term, ;) to say what the government CAN do. Not that we follow it any more. The government doesn't _allow_ us to do things, it is quite the opposite.
Additional info from Dropbox support:

We received several reports from users who used a Dropbox feature called Selective Sync and couldn’t locate certain files they’d saved in Dropbox.
When we took a closer look, we discovered that older versions of the Dropbox client had introduced an issue affecting a small number of users whose Dropbox application shut down or restarted while users were applying Selective Sync settings.

In light of all of this, we've taken the following steps to ensure the Selective Sync bug won’t affect anyone else going forward:

1) we've patched our desktop client so this issue doesn't exist in Dropbox anymore;
2) we've made sure all our users are running an updated version of the Dropbox client; and
3) we've retired all affected versions of the Dropbox client so no one can use them.

We've also put additional testing in place to prevent this from happening in the future.

We’re very sorry about this issue and the trouble it might have caused. We’ll keep doing our best to ensure our users' data is always safe and available to them.