skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting aspect of this story that points the direction the Internet will probably take in reinforcing trust relationships:

The idea that a major government malware contracting effort was required to pop a particular Hungarian CA (presumably for deniability reasons) tells you something. The USG virtually undoubtedly controls several RSA keys that can be used to sign arbitrary SSL/TLS certificates. Why didn't they just use one of those?

I assume it's because they're expensive, and every time you use them, you risk burning the CA they're associated with: the major browser and OS vendors will excise your root keys, or attach constraints to their use.

Kim Zetter, for understandable narrative reasons, uses Gmail as an example of the kind of site that a CA-hijacker could compromise. But Gmail is the dumbest possible site to target with a traceable compromised CA key, because it's key identities are pinned in Firefox and Chrome; if the key indicated over the wire disagrees with the browser binary, the browser flips out.

This is why HPKP, TACK, and similar pinning/continuity/attestation frameworks are such a good idea. Over the medium term, they allow the users of the Internet to surveil SSL/TLS keys and detect compromised CAs.
I was cautioned against using this approach too much when I studied Classical Greek and Latin in college.

There are two potential problems, as I understand it. First, learning a language, particularly an ancient language, involves learning ancient words for things that have no analog in modern life, whereas translation involves mapping those very things onto their closest equivalent in a modern language. It would be too easy using the interlinear method to start thinking that the Greek word 'krater' means a bowl or cup, when really it is a specific type of bowl used for mixing wine. That can really only be learned by consulting a dictionary, and probably a few pictures.

The second issue is only really a problem for people who are particularly familiar with the text in translation - it's very very easy to start mentally reciting the translation you're familiar with instead of actually parsing the original text. This is one reason that Attic Greek is preferred to Koine (New Testament), even though Koine is generally simpler. Even a secular person usually has enough familiarity with the Bible to make this an issue.

I certainly wouldn't say that this method can't be used profitably, but rather that one should be careful not to fall into those particular traps. The same criticisms could be made to relying on the Loeb editions.

Also, minor nitpick: The New Testament isn't really written in Classical Greek, it's in Koine. Going from Koine to any classical dialect is going to be much more difficult than going from any classical dialect to Koine, due to the simplified grammar and vocabulary of Koine Greek.
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The case against King was a little more specific than that, though still not a reasonable basis for suspicion: One of his close associates had historical ties to the US communist party.

It was such a weak case that Hoover had to really push on LBJ to let him go after King so aggressively, and probably reflected cryptic racism as much as his fear of communism.
Not only are you now a TA pro, but you can also trade real estate, and run the Federal Reserve.

This is why the counter-cyclical guys only make money when the bubble bursts. (Berkshire always underperforms in the boom, but makes it up in spades in the bust)
Ah, that's just your DNA talking. Otherwise we could be immensely pleased with the amazing experience of being alive, and when our time is up allow Mother Universe to move on without us. Perhaps after we are wiped out, another better form of life will take hold and really do amazing things, fueled by our decay.

Besides, it looks like our own behavior is going to do it for us, so might as well "love the bomb".
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And then add sometimes not properly defined version dependencies (or developers abusing version numbers a bit) and you have a dependency hell when running npm update -g will almost definitely break something.

I love yeoman, great scaffolding tool, but it depends on so many packages that sometimes it simply doesn't work because some package it depends on did something silly. So once you have a working set up, don't update it if you absolutely must.

That shouldn't be the case in 2014.
Am I the only one who sees this entire story as decidedly "un-hackerly?"

On one hand, OP chides commenters for describing trades as "coin flips" (this is apparently some sort of composite as he quotes no individual commenter in saying this). Then expresses the following transparent cognitive dissonance:

> Trades are not binary outcomes like coinflips. If you think someone with a consistent 70% win rate...

Well, if trades are not binary, what is a "win rate?"

OP makes no mention of the 'hack' here - namely, the underlying systemic outcome of this conduct. Are the companies whose stock is at issue ethically sound? Are they promoting open source and free thought? If they aren't, and if their value is the metric, how can any gains be regarded as a "win?"

Perhaps in a self-enriching sense, but self-enrichment isn't per se a 'hack.'
I don't see how perpetuating the myth helps with achieving that.
A lot of tech related journalism gets (fairly) maligned. This is truly amazing writing, and I highly recommend reading the whole book, even if you know most of the story.
It would definitely change the risk/reward equation, but I think you overestimate how much people value equity vs. living above the poverty line (which is about where basic income would need to be). Or maybe I underestimate it because I don't live in silicon valley. I think basic income would be more exciting for small businesses that aren't attractive to investors, but have similar financial constraints as early-stage startups.
I don't get it. Is this just a middle man between all the retail websites and the publishers? Sort of like what Google is doing with the product search and also giving comissions on the items sold?
Hmm don't think that's true either -

here are some breakout boards with the Module:

https://electricimp.com/docs/gettingstarted/devkits/
As compared to exactly which other government? Anywhere?
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It amazes me that people still paint an entire population with one brush.
There's a tiny computer inside your iPhone running Java. It really is everywhere.
there has been some reporting since then
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/04/16/The-US-is-not-a-de...

and here too
http://thegovlab.org/testing-theories-of-american-politics-e...

sad sad so sad
I'm reminded of http://xkcd.com/1232/

(Edit: Not intended to be snarky; I just think people do ask those questions all the time, and this xkcd answers it well.)
Being born into a society (particularly a wealthy one) bestows many gifts. Chance of survival increases drastically, and the new member is given access to a treasure-trove of information accumulated over tens of thousands of years. Take growing crops, for instance; such an essential part of human life, it is something that we ("we" being humans) have earned. The acquisition of this knowledge was hard-won, requiring the effort of countless human beings. How many people starved to death, teaching the survivors that a particular strategy was bad? How many people collaborating did it take to develop a language and writing system with which to communicate these teachings? This goes on and on; modern society, for all its faults, is a towering monument to the best of human potential, and to the incredible sacrifices made by our ancestors so that we could be here and alive today.

Given that we all owe our existence (and current level of comfort) to the social responsibility born by our progenitors, we must shoulder that same responsibility for the sake of our peers and our descendants. Someone who does not wish to take on that responsibility has no reasonable claim to the continued benefits of society - e.g. if you won't foster an environment in which medicine can be studied, then you do not deserve to benefit from the years of medical study prior to your interference.

This is a fundamental value for me; I'd be interested in hearing a counter-argument, but I highly doubt that I could be dissuaded.
Yes it does. Android includes the NDK as well as the SDK for writing native code (C, C++, etc.) which gives you ARM, etc. specific libraries you package in your app. Although it is pretty popular for people to drop Intel's lib houdini into faster x86 emulators like Genymotion to let them still use ARM games and Google Play Services.
did you look at http://www.yeppp.info for sse/avx support?
To be clear I love to see funding going towards science. But 10,000 years is too damn much. People are placing chronologically the technological singularity within the next 100-200 years. For all practical purposes, 10,000 years ahead it's simply a different universe for me.
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The real link: http://edge.org/conversation/why-sex-differences-matter-the-...

(OP's link goes to the author's bio page.)
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I have a hard time believing any of the pre-1974 inventions were not known to be important almost immediately. BJTs are perhaps the only exception.
JavaCard _did_ take off. More likely than not the SIM card in your phone runs it, and so does your EMV/NFC bank card (if you have one).
I find it funny how people feel offended as soon as you leave out the words "some" or "most".
reading a chart quickly turns into reading tea leaves and other forms of divination that people are so prone to. There is just no science there. it's better to know our brains are poorly wired for understanding the risk of trading.
We are actually very interested in graph algorithms and analytics and recently started to work on these.
The first analytic that we tackled was triangle counting for social networks.

We wrote some blogs on this:

-http://arrayfire.com/triangle-counting-in-graphs-on-the-gpu-...

-http://arrayfire.com/triangle-counting-in-graphs-on-the-gpu-...

We plan on looking at additional algorithms in the future.
it's interesting that the report came out a couple of months ago and nothing was mention in the news recently in light of the current vote.

nothing to see here folks
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...
Why do you think that is funny?
I find this fascinating and want to read more, but you haven't given me a lot to go on. Any references? What is SES?
Although it's not much of an identity confirmation standard, more of a programming standard for getting your code to run on a 8051 microcontroller in a smart card.

Although you can quite easily go from that (if you have master keys and/or app installation keys) into running, for example, OpenPGP [1].

[1] - https://github.com/FluffyKaon/OpenPGP-Card
that chris dixon analogy is really interesting ... can you provide a link if you get a chance?

EDIT: nevermind it was only a tweet :)

https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/505118160811728896
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I seriously hope this pushes out Java closer to graveyard of forgotten languages. Java had been rotting for a long time without significant progress compared to modern languages including C#. It's only advantage had been that it was cross platform. Now it's owned by lawyers-driven Oracle which is as worse as things can get. Also I really want to stop worry about having my mom install crapware like Ask toolbar and say No to Update Java every single day.
And with the magic of compartmentalization, both kinds of people can work together to create a horrible organization that does all kinds of evil around the world.
Yarvin's weird political views aren't really part of Urbit.
The joy of building can indeed be counter-productive. But a question to ask then is, should productivity always win over joy? (assuming personal survival either way, of course)
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That wouldn't really address this issue all that much. A lot of people don't have the savings to continue payments, so yea, they would be at risk of losing their car insurance (and health insurance) when unemployed. (Yes I know that unemployment insurance exists but that's also the case in the health insurance case with COBRA et al).
To me, the re-introduction of the $8/month fee for Google Play Music All Access (mercifully rechristened as Google Play Music) is the most important part of this announcement. Apple is reportedly wooing publishers to allow them to sell Beats subscriptions for $5/month, which matches the average spending for top iTunes customers.

If iTunes' best customers spend $60/year, asking $120/year from EVERYONE seems ridiculous. Spotify recently tried to address this flaw with family plans that drop the cost to $6/month for a family of five -- but that's still too much hassle in what should be a dead-simple transaction. Steam demonstrated the revenue potential of irresistibly priced digital goods a decade ago... I don't know why music has been so slow to catch up.

- - - - -

The Youtube Key portion of the announcement is great, I guess, but not for me personally. I don't watch many music videos and have been able to download them forever through third-party extensions anyway.

However, in the audience that DOES watch music videos -- young, female, often tech-illiterate -- there's quite a bit of money waiting to be tapped. Years ago, iTunes scored big by offering that demographic hassle-free music downloads rather than piracy or CD ripping.

I doubt ad-free YouTube is as compelling an offer, but it's probably worth something to regular visitors; and if Spotify/Beats/Play/Rdio are fungible, then maybe YouTube Key will be the unmatchable add-in that sells Google music subscriptions. Lower prices are probably more valuable to customers than ad skipping is, though.
All governments to varying degrees seem to operate with a number of hidden imperatives, with one being "maintain the status quo." There will always be some within the government bureaucracy who see anything that deviates from the status quo of their host society as criminal or an enemy.
Or you could consider that they are freaking isomorphic to each other and therefore neither is better than each other
"Others do it therefore it's ok."
Yeah, but what are they going to do about it. Sanctions that hurt you just as much? Retaliate in kind? War? I'm not sure its understood yet what the appropriate response should be, or what the bounds of the consequences are.
A lot of people worry about Government sponsored hacking taking the gloves off, and fucking with commercial infrastructure directly and relentlessly. The amount of leaks and compromises we see today suggests this could be economically catastrophic.
> And in Amazon Web Services, the biggest thing Amazon has to fear is the OpenStack initiative producing a platform that lots of little hosts can host.

I highly doubt OpenStack alone can make it possible for smaller players to replicate AWS's economics of scale, or even come particularly close. From what I understand Amazon doesn't just plop their software on commodity hardware, they use highly specialized gear optimized for running specific services. And that's not to mention buying power, the ability to run on razor-thin margins and other business factors that impact pricing.
> I fail to see how BizSpark is anything but a huge boon to the startup/small business community.

For starters, it encourages a bad habit: using the Microsoft stack and deploying on Windows.

Unless you are significantly more productive by using this toolset, I'd advise against it. Having said that, most startups fail, so, chances are using Windows will not be a problem 3-5 years down the road.
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Actually, compartmentalization allows the two to work together and only enact what they both agree to. The results are not always terrible, they're a mix.
Perhaps other people have standards higher than rock-bottom? You could just as easily point to people 500 years ago and say how much better off we are than them, so why every try to identify shortfalls and improve them?
This puts in context why privacy is so important. If for some reason you were to become a leader of a movement and the NSA had swept up every digital bit about you for the last 30 years then they could potentially have a goldmine of information to soil your name and put the movement into disarray.
And it also doesn't matter one bit, because they are `%.y` and `%.n` for all practical purposes.
"""YOU NEED TO LEARN ABOUT MONADS JUST TO WRITE 'HELLO WORLD', LIKE WHAT IS UP WITH THAT."""
How hard would it be to create a fake internet paper trail containing pornography, chat rooms, etc., as is mentioned in the article? It seems that would be relatively trivial for a sufficiently motivated state actor to perpetrate.
That would be almost anyone who's automated a build for, say, a CI server.

I also use it to compile outside of VS, because 1) it's often quicker on large solutions and 2) it mirrors the CI build (sometimes VS is too smart and papers over issues).
Say the issue is call metadata. They showed that I called the murderer, who then murdered someone I had a grudge against. So this evidence doesn't prove that I did order a hit, but at least proves that I had the opportunity to have done so.

The metadata is technical evidence, not witness testimony. But...

Who wrote the software that collected the metadata? Any bugs in it? Any possibility that I did not, in fact, make that call?

Where was the metadata stored? Who had access to it? Could anybody have altered it, perhaps even to cover their own tracks?

Who had custody of the data after the records got pulled from the database? Any chance that they could have altered it? Maybe they knew that the prosecution's case was weak, and they wanted to make it look better?

In this way, technical evidence does in fact depend on witness testimony.
Is that a good or bad thing? :)

If you can believe it, I ripped out a lot of the original content to reduce the size of the tutorial!
Even if you had a perfect corruption-proof government design... What can you do about it? You are not in charge, and have no way to influence the people in charge.
"Many forms of government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill
That's engineering for you. Examine the failure modes, and try to design the next system so it can't fail in any of the known ways.

In fact, that's what the authors of the Constitution were trying to do...
The government does more harm than good
Spaced repetition is excellent for building vocabulary and learning new words. I'm less convinced of its effectiveness for more subtle things like grammar and sentence structure—those are the kinds of things that don't fit well on a flashcard. I'd say those things are more well-developed through deliberate practice and interactions with other speakers of the language.

I'll throw out a recommendation for Memrise (http://memrise.com) as well.
I think the NYT article implied that it was 34 days until the ceremony where he was awarded the Peace Prize.
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This was in the 1960s. Imagine the projects being conceived now for targeting individuals and population subsets to change opinion, mood, etc. using things like social media, targeted communications, etc.

The US then and now was totalitarian and authoritarian. Some of you, especially here on hn, may not fall into those mind-sets but it doesn't matter - you've lost - you're barely scraping by, working 60 to 80 hours a week and you have no time to change your environment. Meanwhile the political class is able to work full-time on perpetuating their power while taking away yours. You have no power, no rights, because they have been chiseled away the last 30 years by the authoritarians.

I've said this before and I'm always downvoted but I don't care. Just leave. Go to Berlin, or London (not much better though), Switzerland, or anywhere else. Even if you go to someplace like the UK that isn't much better than the u.s. you will at least no longer be contributing to a government spending 10X to 100X of any other country on arguably evil pursuits. Take your wealth-creation skills to somewhere else where you won't be contributing to your our demise.

I know that many of you will discount this one event as a one-off - MLK was certainly special. But it's only a one-off because it was the start of this sort of campaign against someone that can bring change.
So does it basically a wifi interface for REST commands and custom functions? (for devices)
Its fairly distinct. A destroyer is like owning a bunch of submarines, in a way. This is the one point where the model kind of breaks this layer, though.

Basically, it can't run out of address space because of the abundance of subs.
Nah, you'll do whatever you are ordered to or lose your job. You don't need to know why. Scratch that, here's why: freedom. Now you can feel good about that wire you just cut, that letter you just signed, or that "terrorist" you tortured for years.
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While I can tolerate most of your post, Hanselman's blog is not silly. Well it is, but not in the disparaging way you mean.
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I would not doubt at all that the government is blackmailing extremist Muslims any chance they get. (And, interpret "extremist Muslims" as anybody Homeland Security thinks might be so.)
King was "one of the world's great civil rights heroes" because he was a subversive figure. It shouldn't be surprising to anyone that subversive figures end up encountering resistance from the Establishment.

If you want an example of what the government would do and what the FBI did do, don't look at Martin Luther King. Look at Fred Hampton.
Something that's always confused me about the world and people as a whole. Why are so many people hell bent on implementing some "moral standard" that everyone needs to follow? Honestly?

There's this bizarre projection of the individual and his/her motivations onto every living being that fails to make any logical sense.

Is there any psychological premise for why we feel the need to dictate the behavior of others such that they perfectly mirror how we behave (or in many cases, wish to)?

There appears to be a tipping point where someone agrees with a certain set of values and as opposed to stopping at enforcing those values on themselves (reasonable), they go absolutely nuts trying to push it onto everyone else.

A sort of: how dare you.
Even if you had a perfect corruption-proof government implementation, you still have humans composing that government, and therefore it won't be corruption-proof for long.
What was the recommended approach?
Yeah, failures that cost hundreds of thousands lives. We're talking about the most weaponized country in the world, and one of the least shy to use its weapons.

We are not talking about a movie maker delivering a boring scene who will try to do better in the next movie. We're talking about toppling foreign governments, invading countries, backing or installing dictatures, assassinating people, droning teenagers, dealing cocaine, torturing people, launching nuclear weapons. Doing it times and times over, never being shy about it, and never admitting any wrong.

There is zero structure of improvement in the US government behavior. Those structure exists, for example the Geneva treaty, the Rome treaty which brings trial for war criminals, but the US government refuses any accountability. There is no downside to the erratic US behavior.
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