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> wouldn't you just move the files and change the password?

Quoting from http://unspecified.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/wikileaks-passwo... - "speculation says that since it was on the WikiLeaks server temporarily, and WikiLeaks was aggressively mirroring their site to avoid being taken down, it was copied within the few hours that it was available online, and spread from there." Quoting from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cables... - "This included WikiLeaks volunteers placing an encrypted file containing all WikiLeaks data online as "insurance" in July 2010, in case something happened to the organization." In either case, the encrypted file could not be moved from everyone's computers.

Several people knew the password. One was a journalist. The journalist published the password.

> He has his own political agenda, and is given a huge volume of classified information by a third party, and he then decides what of these classified information gets published and what doesn't. What makes him the deciding factor in all of this? If you think you're doing good publishing information that others think is classified, than publish the information. Don't pick through it, see what you think will make headlines or embarrass people you don't like, and publish only that which you feel is fit to press.

Don't we all have our own political agendas? Assange is at least somewhat direct about expressing them.

But ... have you not read any of the history of Wikileaks? Assange invited the US to "privately nominate any specific instances (record numbers or names) where it considers the publication of information would put individual persons at significant risk of harm that has not already been addressed" and "reached an agreement with media partners in Europe and the United States to publish the rest of the cables in redacted form, removing the names of sources and others in vulnerable positions." (Quotes from that Wikipedia leak.)

Your proposal might kill people.

Slow leaks also keep the pressure up. If your agenda, for example, is to point out the contradictions in the government's statements and actions, then a partial release may elicit an official response, then a later release of more information can be used to show that that response was a lie, or to highlight how certain words were carefully chosen based on differences between an internal meaning of certain words and the general public meaning of those same words.
You spent a whole paragraph saying As the 80s progressed, computer jobs shifted. Data entry no longer required a CS degree, so although the number of women doing that job increased, they were relegated to other non-CS degrees (and weren't really interested in CS to start with). but now are talking about "keypunching certificates".

Which is it?

Note that the Tribune article discusses a woman who learned keypunching at a commercial high school in 1972.

All we need to show is that the difference in female math and CS graduates in 1985 were primarily mainframe operators and/or keypunch operators

So get to it.
> Ideally you would want to normalize by revenue from government contracts

I'm not sure that makes sense; normalizing by revenue tells the tale of how much of what the company brings in is devoted to swaying public policy, but I'm not sure what normalizing by revenue from government contracts get you -- presumably, any profit maximizing corporation trying to sway policy is trying to do so for its own benefit, whether the way in which it hopes to receive that benefit is by direct government contracts, or by government policy encouraging (and perhaps even subsidizing) others to purchase the service it sells, or by some other shift in policy that helps the firms business.
Thanks for Cursive. Works great and right out of the box too with no surprises.

I watched this video and then installed it:
Getting started in Clojure with IntelliJ, Cursive, and Gorilla part 1: setup
http://vimeo.com/103808402

Thanks again. Having tons of fun with it now.
Wow, this moron went bowling and took a taxi.

Unbelievable.
I don't know if his will help:

I am 63, and I realize that I might not be as effective as I once was. What I do is offer a really low rate for telecommuting from home, and a much larger rate when working on site. So, for the last many years, I work cheaply from home and occasionally work on site (most recently at Google) for a much better consulting rate.

I don't know if your father has the financial flexibility to follow my plan, but it works for me.
It's also heavily populated with people who work at or with Google's competitors, of which there are many more. Bias and differing opinions are everywhere.
Nice anecdata. It really adds to the level of discussion! Perhaps a simple solution is to just give that jackass a gift certificate to Subway.

edit: the downvotes on this comment come from the same source as the problem you hold so dear - simple herd politics.
This was an incredibly sad article. Traumatizing thousands of third (developing?) world citizens to keep our Facebooks and Youtubes free from the depravity and horrors of humankind....and, um, sex. If there ever was a need to effectively automate something it is this...for the sake of these poor workers, if nothing else. Replacing tens of thousands of workers with an algorithm would be insanely valuable as well.
I did the same for a place in Sydney.
It did eventually get updated. But it took a veeeeery long time.
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"serial entrepreneur" LMAO.

This guy is a serial abuser and a serial scammer.
> wouldn't you just move the files and change the password?

The encrypted files were distributed via bittorrent, with the password given to trusted individuals. This was done as a "dead-man's switch"; insurance against "prior restraint" (which can cover anything from incarceration to termination, depending on your level of paranoia).

See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/01/cablegate_leak_row/

The problem is this:

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Once the password started being shared to people without professional security training and the temperament to keep secrets, it was only a matter of time before it all came out. Regardless if you agree with wikileak's political and social philosophies, and even if you feel they provided much-needed sunlight/disinfectant, as an organization they acted like a bunch of preteens running a club out of a treehouse.
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"The foreign exchange market, or forex, is the biggest and the most liquid exchange service in the world with over $4 trillion worth of trades made every day."

Yes, and you are shut out of that market unless you're on the interbank (which generally means you are an actual bank). Retail forex "markets" are bucket shops that get first look at all their customer bids. The actual forex market is OTC.

http://www.ecnforex.co.uk/interbank-forex-markets-explained/

Trading retail forex is a mug's game.
I have some x86 servers with seven slots and 14 10G ports, but we only managed to get 8 ports working in netmap. Intel has done some crazy stuff with DPDK and I've seen a demo of over 300 Gbps on a 4S machine.

I've also seen some stuff on Power8 networking but it's not public.
As long as the game board is not 10x20 I think he'll be fine :-)
"People infected with Ebola cannot spread the disease until they begin to display symptoms, and it cannot be spread through the air. As people become sicker, the viral load in the body builds, and they become more and more contagious."

This is sort of misleading in this context, unfortunately. The WHO considers (sustained presence) within 1 meter of EBV carrier to be ~physical exposure. The young doctor appears to have been on a NYC subway within 12 hours of having a fever of 103. Creating a potential group of exposures that may be un-traceable.

Maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong. But this would be highly unfortunate if these reports are correct. Presumably the uber driver is also in this group now, but records should be able to provide some data on that one much easier.
What I've always found interesting in the nebulus of Assange/Google/NSA/etc. is 90%+ of the time, people only focus on this as it if is only as US-gov issue. As if Russia, India, China and others haven't developed similar systems of surveillance. It's not to say that any system is wrong or right (whole different debate for another time) ... but it just astounds me that people look at what was leaked/released/unclassified and say, "well, look at all the threats to the US, look at what we need to protect. it's for our safety" completely ignoring that other governments and organizations are also developing similar systems. In my mind, it should just be treated as a baseline of possibility/capability.
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It doesn't seem like it should be that hard. Calculate the percentage of traffic that uses a street in each direction. If more than 10% of it is going in the opposite direction on a one-way street, flag that street for human review.
Also, highly skilled English speaking work force. A huge amount of other US firms based in the area.
Not to mention riding the subway. Good luck doing contact tracing with that. I'm not saying he was contagious. I hope he wasn't.

Was the bowling alley public subway trip really a must-do thing, for someone who had just directly worked with ebola patients? Could this kind of thinking not be part of the training for this kind of work, I wonder?
I haven't used Clojure for about 8 months now. I haven't abandoned it, but my current project is better suited for other languages. It is nice to take a breath from Lisp after so many years.

My main irritation was security. The libs were sporadic, didn't seem to gel, and (not being able to judge this) felt like they didn't work as needed.

The community is small, scary smart, and among the most friendly and humble group of people I've ever been around. They have no issues poking fun at Lisp and themselves. Just great people all around. Their creativity and production volume is astonishing.
Gross margin is used to pay back your NRE, so net profit is lower.
The church sometimes acts like 3000 separate entities, and sometimes acts like one monolithic entity, according to whichever is most convenient. When I apply the duck test, it quacks.

Yes, in theory, the Pope could suggest that preservation of historic documents in the Vatican archives might be an important issue for the church, and the nearly 3000 bishops could all ignore him without consequence. If he made an appeal to a billion people, there is a possibility no one would listen. Not. Bloody. Likely.

Again, I say that if the church cannot preserve its own property, it should sell some of the collection to support the rest, preferably to an entity whose primary mission is the preservation and dissemination of knowledge, rather than the dignity and tradition of a religion.
There is an obvious difference between things we can and the things we can't control. My example is clearly the former, and is much more analogous than yours.

Oh, and I learned a long time ago that "shut up" doesn't go over too well with my wife, unless I want to get smacked.
I would say Python.

I am no expert in neither Python nor JS. But, the AI community really seems to be obsessed with Python and moreover many specific libraries [1] are available in Python that concentrates on AI alone.

On the contrary, AI in JS is mainly being used in games and like.

[1] - https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonForArtificialIntelligence
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I would look away from any monitors or phones..

usually stretch and enjoy the view from my window.
I don't think this matter has been settled enough to call it "debunked." From Wired: "Whether Judge Forrest, who’s presiding over Ulbricht’s case, takes a similar view will only become clear in the coming weeks."

> Or maybe the decision by a US Magistrate Court which said private information is fair game, even if its located on servers in other countries, given a valid search warrant.

Sounds irrelevant to me -- isn't it part of the argument here, that the agents did not have a warrant to search the Icelandic server?
You're really selectively quoting those studies.

From the first link (the pew poll):

Young women, those 18-24, experience certain severe types of harassment at disproportionately high levels: 26% of these young women have been stalked online, and 25% were the target of online sexual harassment. In addition, they do not escape the heightened rates of physical threats and sustained harassment common to their male peers and young people in general.

You mention regarding the second link (which you yourself say is 'decidedly non-scientific', and yet still proceed to cite):

There's also this decidedly non-scientific study of Twitter[2] which shows male celebrities receive more "abuse" on Twitter than female celebrities, where "abuse" means "something tweeted @ them with a swear word in it."

So, there was no attempt made to determine the severity of the abuse. You sound like you want to find empirical data to back your point of view, but your sources don't really say what you claim them to be saying.

My $0.02 (as a guy), sure you get some abuse, but none of it really matters. If someone emails me cursing, saying he's a navy seal and is going to come to my house to kill me, we all know it's BS and won't happen. For girls it's a threat that's much more likely to happen. As the pew study you linked to mentioned, 26% of young women have been stalked online.
I think discipline is the bigger issue than awareness. Even someone who absolutely knows better can end up thinking that the bad thing can't happen to them.
I know I said I was done being off topic...but apparently that wasn't true.

>Smoking harms others and provides no benefit to anyone other than people who suffer nicotine addictions.

You might feel that way, but other people feel differently. There is a fair amount of evidence that nicotine is often used as a form of self medication for both anxiety and depression. It also has a long history of being enjoyed socially by a number of different cultures.

I regularly encourage and support my friends who are trying to quit smoking, I did so even back when I was a smoker. My biggest issue with the anti-smoking activists is that they assume that because they don't like something, nobody can like it.

> Furthermore, smoking bans are bar none the most effective way to reduce public harm from second hand smoke. They indeed "actually work".

They might be the most effective, but they are not the most fair. By your same logic, completely banning cars on public roads is the most effective way to reduce pedestrian fatalities.

Smoking bans trample on the universal right of individuals to to pursue happiness as they see fit. I think it is possible to protect this universal right while also protecting the rights of those who wish to be free of the harm caused by second hand smoke.

I think the unwillingness of anti-smoker to work to accomodate this is as callous as the unwillingness of some smokers to take the effort to avoid exposing people to their second-hand smoke.

And to bring this back to the discussion at hand:
Banning something for the public good is rarely fair and often has ignored or unvalued externalities. This is especially true when the ban comes at the expense of a minority of the population (such as a ban on panhandling).
I'm commenting to register my frustration with what I call the "harm reductionism fallacy".

At it's most extreme point, it can be parodied to something like "You have no right to complain about a problem in your privileged life because people are starving in $COUNTRY"

In all it's forms, it's a sort of ridicule directed towards people trying to make their lives better. I believe people have the right to complain about, and try to improve, any and every element of their lives- right down to asking for better/healthier free lunches from their employers.

Working for ethics in video game journalism and to reduce nasty sex related comments towards women stands to reform a genuinely nasty cesspool in modern society
This has been a very hot topic on HN in the past, so I suspect the comments section will soon blow up.

I've always though of the "calories in vs calories out" technique for weight loss to be the starting point for the majority of people trying to lose weight. Reign in how many calories you're eating, start burning a few more (even just walking a block or two for most people is a great start) and you'll see significant weight loss over a long period of time.

Don't beat yourself up when you have a "bad" day, because the success of this technique is not measured in days. It's not even measured in weeks or months, it's measured in a unit of "the rest of your life".

After many months tending to years of this, and many pounds lost, the approach can be fine tuned and what is being eaten can be examined in slightly more detail.

Once you've mastered crawling, you can move onto walking and running, but it's simply too difficult to jump straight into running where there are so many gains to be made from simple crawling.
If you read the Wikipedia page about the book you'll see Russia-Georgia listed as 1 of 5 such counter-examples, going back to the US invasion of Panama in 1989.

You'll also see his responses.

But I'm not trying to justify either which way. My point is that there are certain concepts in geopolitical dialog that are used as short-hand to express a larger concept. Expressions like "McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas" are to outsiders as meaningless as "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" or "information wants to be free".

In other words "[Schmidt] struggled to verbalize many of [his politics], often shoehorning geopolitical subtleties into Silicon Valley marketese or the ossified State Department micro-language of his companions" can be turned around - Assage uses a different language than you or I, though he doesn't struggle to verbalize his politics.
Right. Different perspectives. Things don't always fit neatly into the same box.

So some degree I wonder whether FTDI is more of a niche market/small volume product than mass market.

If you are making a high volume consumer device it behooves you to optimize cost by using microprocessors with integrated USB capabilities rather than resorting to a USB to serial chip.

In other cases the USB to serial approach is attractive because either you have a very small micro or a situation where a full stack OS doesn't exist in the device. As an example, an 8051 derivative would be easier to interface with an FTDI chip. A TI (or whatever) 32 bit micro already comes with USB and there's plenty of support in the way of embedded driver code to make it work.

It'd be interesting just how FTDI's market share is segmented. Not sure this information is available anywhere.
As the grand parent, i also see the society of Brave New World as much less dystopian than usually portrayed.

> Well, it's all fun and games if you happen to win the genetic dice roll and end up as an Alpha. I imagine it's considerably less fun if you're a Gamma.

Yes, from the external point of view of a book reader, i would prefer to "win the genetic dice roll". But if i were decanted as a Gamma, i wouldn't mind, i wouldn't prefer to be an Alpha, with all that complex work they do, i'd prefer my simpler life. The casts system in BNW works only because the members of each cast feel happy to belong to their cast.

> It will never question anything, and because it will never question anything, it will never improve itself.

This is actually why i think the vision of Huxley in BNW is not as dystopian as 1984 [spoilers of both books ahead!]: they not only not kill or get rid of the free thinkers (Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson) as they do in 1984, they actually send them to an island with an environment more suitable for their mental fostering, thus allowing new ideas to be born, and maybe very very gradually be introduced in the society.

Yeah, it's quite a bummer that no radical improvement can happen; the society could stuck in a local maximum. But it's a trade-off for stability, peace and abundance.

Would Huxley live today, i'd wager his vision of BNW would not include such a restrictive casts system. BNW's society had a great desire for efficiency, so it is expected that they would use computers to thoroughly automate as much labor as possible. And with that thorough automation, there'd be no need for conditioning humans to accept and do the worst kinds of labors that Deltas, Gammas and Epsilons do.

I guess the means of control applied to higher casts would still "make sense" in order to maintain social stability, which is rather discomforting. But without the restrictive casting system, that future doesn't seem as bleak.
Are you really less effective? I would assume that experience would be a big help in making a developer more effective? Or are you saying you may be as effective, but not as able to work the crazy hours that still seem to be far too common in the industry?
It depends on the market you serve and the kinds of products you sell and support. In some cases it doesn't make sense.
> I think most people in the tech industry (and sadly not many people outside it) have already realized the Google is very very big-brothery.

.. and is politically oriented. For example, the China government hacking incident was blown way out of proportion, greatly damaging the company's business in there. The consequence is still hurting them that Google services are now almost inaccessible in China.
So, /etc/hosts is just a silly example. One that happens to be easy to consider. You want "backend" for one service to be a different machine than "backend" for another. (Again, simple example, not necessarily indicative of how things should be.)

But, this really doesn't answer my question. Sure, emulating a full machine can be expensive. That is typically why you do it with a very powerful machine in the first place. If the losses are such that they are causing problems, you can always go to real hardware, even.

More to the point, this implies that containers are somehow "free." I am skeptical that could be the case. You are adding a whole new layer onto the operating system to possibly present multiple copies of files or only subsets. Simply put, there can be no free lunches. The price is paid somewhere.
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I have never been fat but as a sports guy I have read a lot about the subject and I'm pretty sure the best first step (as opposed to running, not as opposed to controlling your calories) is to start lifting weights if you are a guy. The more muscle you have, the more calories you will burn passively (at rest). And once you are done losing weight you will be ripped. It's like what people do in a bulk + cut cycle, but skipping the bulk phase.
Out here in the D.C. area I see Surfaces all over the place. They seem to be a favorite of the business crowd that likes to do sales pitches in coffee shops since I usually see them in the context of a powerpoint presentation.
Python by far in my opinion.
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