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Strongly second this.

"Evergreen" is a misnomer for this.

An evergreen story is any story where the difference
between the submission date of the story and the
publication date of the story is two years or more.

These stories need not necessarily be any more interesting than your average high-ranked ones on the front page.

Plenty of important stories go unnoticed, if they aren't picked up and submitted instantly after their inception, to various news outlets, with even bigger subscriber bases than HN.

Once a story is no longer fresh, it is highly rare that it retains its relevance, reader-interest or uniqueness.

If a story, despite not attracting much attention in it's 'first release', is periodically submitted by various people at various times, then it indicates timelessness.

However the fact that some very worthy stories get lost and never really see traction or virality, is in itself cause for constant fine-tuning of the way stories get weighted, ranked and thrust onto the first page(s) of not just HN, but just about every other similar news board out there.

Personally, I'd like to see a 'second chance' ticker that continuously scrolls the most feverishly upvoted AND downvoted non-front page, stories of the hour, occupying a sliver of real estate at the top of the page.

Whether on HN or Twitter or on the most trafficked general-interest blog out there, recycling older content should not be frowned upon.

A content recycling and re-purposing program should be part of a comprehensive publishing plan for any digital outlet that rapidly generates content.

It is the responsible thing to do.

Stellar content is missed by readers for a whole host of reasons. This happens even when that content is widely shared by friends or coworkers.

This brings us to the deconstruction of what stellar content really is.

Information ( and thus content ) is judged by not just the truth value or the interesting-ness of the insights therein, but also

* the timeliness of those insights and more importantly
* the perspective a fresh ( and a keen ) pair of eyes brings
to those very same insights

It is interesting to observe how in an age of countless distribution channels and dissemination models, a thoroughly flat world for information access of all kinds with very few old-world gatekeepers and in an age of roaring democratization of most content[1], we cannot escape the tyranny of the hive mind and groupthink. If anything, it seems to have gained fresh legs.

I don't know if this recycling, second-chancing and re-purposing of content is the perfect antidote to hive mind and groupthink, but it certainly is a step in the right direction.

[1] I say most content because if you are not an English speaker or if your content is exclusively in Saami (of the Uralic language family) or in any of the hundreds of languages with few bi-lingual speakers in those languages, your content and the profound insights contained therein - gleaned from the tradition of oral histories passed down from generation to generation - is mostly lost, at least for now. In that sense, the digital divide is still very much here.
It's not necessarily easy employment prospects though. Recruiters are playing a numbers game, too. For a given job opening, it's in their best financial interest to pitch as many potential candidates as possible, in case one sticks. There is no real cost to them to solicit a multitude of résumés, and no immediate benefit whether the position is a good fit on either side, as long as a hire occurs through them.
I'm one of the founders of Heap. We'd love to get your feedback on the product.

You might be used to writing event-tracking code in Mixpanel or Flurry, and having to push an update to the app store just to start tracking those events. With Heap, we're tracking touch events, gestures, action methods and more automatically. Now we've built a visual interface that lets you define those events by interacting with your app manually.
Stars and galaxies are not prerequisites for life.

So, sure there is probably a much larger set's of universes that can't support life than can. However, if you want to compare {universes that can support life} / {total universes} then you can't just look at carbon based life and assume that's the end all be all.
There's also an awesome Firefox extension called "cliget" that will give you curl and wget (and some windows only thing I've never heard of) command lines—It adds a "Copy curl for link" context menu item for every link.

It's quite nice because it will put all your cookies on the command line so you can trivially download files protected by a login page directly to remote servers.
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Implicit returns are the norm in ES6's arrow functions. I use CoffeeScript for most of my personal coding, and I can think of exactly one situation where an implicit return got me in trouble. Generally, if you don't care enough about what your function returns to check it, then it's likely the calling function doesn't either, assuming you're familiar with the particular API you're working with.
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Since Flash Boys keeps coming up in these threads I want to provide an alternate reference for those curious. A recent rebuttal has been published called "Flash Boys Not So Fast". If you're interested in the topic, I highly suggest you pick it up. http://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Insiders-Perspective-High-F...
Very odd indeed. This is a complete regression to how the market was traded 20 years ago when every bank used to have a NASDAQ market making desk that would make a principal market in any security you wanted. Those desks all got wiped out when spreads collapsed because HFT firms could do it for a fraction of the cost.
Here's the first chapter of the book, read by Sam Harris himself:
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Lua was designed, and has things taken out, and has its semantics simplified (and well documented). And it is small.
Channel9, please be concise
Channel9 is an excellent source if you want to keep informed on the latest Microsoft stacks. But I would love to offer some friendly suggestions.

1. Developers don't have a lot of times. Instead of 30 minutes session, a 5 minutes quick video is more effective.

2. We know you are all developers and wouldn't hold you to the same standard as show biz hosts. Please stay away from the "funny" jokes and small talks in your presentation.

3. Maybe offer some description on the content of the video so that people can quickly decide if it is worth the time.

Thanks.
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If a law exists that requires a software company to retain the capability to provide plaintext transcripts of encrypted messages, and to provide those transcripts on demand, you've been unable to provide any citation to it.

Lavabit is exactly the problem with your analysis. The core problem of Lavabit wasn't that that the government compelled Levison to retain the ability to decrypt messages. No, Levison chose to do that, because the market punished real secure message providers for forcing users to install software. (a) If you have the ability to decrypt messages, (b) the government is allowed under current law to exploit that. Now Levison's defenders want to point the finger at the DOJ and surveillance law, insulating him from the consequences of his own (frankly) terribly irresponsible decision to expose his users secrets in exchange for market share.

The original citation to CALEA which people "fixated" on was yours. Your claim was that CALEA compelled software companies like Apple to backdoor encryption. It does no such thing.

No law exists preventing anyone from building a truly secure messaging service. TextSecure and Silent Circle are doing it out in the open right now. A disinformation campaign suggesting otherwise would be harmful to end-users.
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"Having said that, we do need these kinds of solutions without the back doors."

You do have that. Further, you've had it since 2006.

Point duplicity[1] to rsync.net[2].

Cheers!

[1] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

[2] http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
Something to keep BT on its edge, but this is hardly a "security analysis" in an established conventional sense. It's a semi-random collection of surface observations from half-a-day of poking around. Sure, some of these may be indicative of serious underlying issues, but they may also be not. E.g. -

> [MEDIUM] Attack vector potentiel : mise à jour automatique (silent update) du client en HTTP sur http://update.utorrent.com

If they check the digital signature on an update package, this is not an issue. If they don't, it is.
Well, the overall point is:
If FTL communication is possible, then you get grandfather type paradoxes, unless you have an absolute time (or it is resolved some other way). And SR does not rule out absolute time, it just discards it.
Not much twisting is required when you state "There is zero chance that Ross William Ulbricht obtained those coins legally."

You could make your case without statements like that.
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I've been waiting for a LONG time for an analysis of BTSync. While reading the analysis, I can only imagine what this spells for similar closed-source (yet purportedly "secure") file storage sites such as SpiderOak and MEGA. Thoughts?
It helps that they have an entire educational line of courses to build up the specific skills. I took the CCNA classes (and tutored for them at a local community college) in high school and while they do go over basic topics like 7 layer model, its highly Cisco hardware specific and it helps to have funnels like that into your support operations. It is similar to how Microsoft was (still is?) in the operating systems industry.
This is probably not feasible, but in order for reflection to help much Rosetta would have to be much farther from the comet, so that its orbit would be comet-synchronous. Actually I doubt Rosetta has any surface reflective enough to help with this anyway. If it were used this way it would probably not be pointing its transmitter toward Earth.
They had a big hand in wiping themselves out when they got caught colluding.
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Please read http://nucleardiner.com/2014/11/15/wasnt-philae-given-rtg/
Asking as someone with extensive familiarity with Cisco TAC, Advanced Services, et al... have you interacted with them lately? Anecdotally based on my interactions, the average knowledge level of any given set of 1st/2nd tier support engineers seems to have dropped precipitously in the past two years. Once you get to a platform-specific support group (say, the ACE group in Framingham, MA), the knowledge level is outstanding - but it also seems to have gotten much more difficult to escalate cases to that level without an extraordinary amount of effort on the part of customer engineers.
Most legal activity (though not necessarily all) will involve paperwork and receipts, not least for the purposes of documenting your taxable income.

Civil forfeiture is often (though not always) used to clear up the legal status of assets found abandoned during a criminal investigation, eg if the DEA interrupts a drug bust and the buyers flee, leaving a few hundred thousand in cash behind. You could turn up to such a hearing and assert a legal claim to such assets along with an explanation of why they should not be forfeit, but if the assets are the proceeds of criminal activity then it's not worth it unless you have a truly outstanding cover story because you'd risk arrest or having the testimony at the hearing turn up in your criminal case.

IIRC in this case the feds got the bitcoin wallet information by seizing the Silk Road server, so they have a wholly reasonable presumption that the bitcoins are the assets of the (obviously illegal) drug brokerage business and probably a transaction log to back up this presumption.
I still remember when I was binding my thesis. The printing shop offered the option to engrave text on the book cover. But they only accepted Word documents as template for it. I gave up as soon as I tried to do smallcaps in Word.

The thesis was nicely typeset in LaTeX and it would have been ridiculous to make the cover look far worse than the actual text.

The engraving was supposed to be something like 3€ per line. But it didn't even support basic typographic features because of Word. That was just ridiculous. That's why my thesis has a plain cover and the shop lost 12€ (- expenses) per copy.
I think his point is more that Ulbricht's assets aren't being treated any differently than other suspected-criminals. Asset forfeiture may be bad, but it's not being applied uniquely to Ulbricht. So if you want to change how asset forfeiture works, you should probably pick a more noble champion for the cause.
Syncthing is the other option I've used. Setup isn't as easy as Bittorrent Sync though (each computer has to have the node IDs for other computers added manually). And last I checked, there's not a convenient "run in the background" checkbox, so it's not well suited to non-techies yet. But it's got open source going for it. Don't know if it's been subjected to any security audits, but the fact that it eventually could be puts it ahead of Bittorrent.

http://syncthing.net/
This blog post by Alexey Andreyev goes into a lot more detail:

https://code.facebook.com/posts/360346274145943/introducing-...
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8620320.
True, but misleading title.

"Augur is a decentralized open source platform for prediction markets, built on Bitcoin Core."
So I don't fully understand what IEX does then. Let's say A puts 500 shares of AAPL onto IEX at $100/share, and B puts a buy order in for 500 shares at $100/share, but in between posting the BUY and the order executing (in that 350ms), they get more information, and decide they actually want to pull out, are they unable to?

Let's say B instead only buys 250 shares, what happens to the remaining 250 shares?
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IMHO, the exposed problem is exactly what's wrong in many development teams. What should happen is this:

1. somebody is feeling too much pain because of the shitty build system, therefore ...

2. that somebody simply setups an alternative and then shows everybody else how great it is compared to the current build system

If this doesn't happen, then the team is fundamentally broken, either because the team has only rookies in it (and rookies tend to be masochists that can take pain) or because the developers simply stopped carrying about the project, for some reason or another (which might be legitimate) and just do the minimal amount of work to cash in their paycheck. If this happens and the build system doesn't get fixed by somebody, then the main problem is not a shitty build system, but a broken team.

The good news is that you don't need an architect label to fix a broken build system, or certifications or other such bullshit. You just have to care enough and invest some effort in fixing it, with the realization that nobody is going to do that for you. Incidentally that's how you get better - sure you might make mistakes along the way, but people that change things are the people that get really good at it.
You can easily allow both, though. At worst you can simply turn off significant indent inside explicit delimiters.
No wonder.

REST manipulates resources but not every software service maps to resources, or (very) painfully so. This is easy to overlook when you have not had to implement a substantial service that is not a simple storage interface in this fashion. It might be tempting to write an article not trying to solve or even address this but it wrongly makes things appear more simple than they are.

REST often tries to map a graph of resources on a tree (the URL space). This problem is more related to the web and naming in general yet there are many possible solutions and no clear rule to apply, leaving plenty of room to blind alleys and time lost pondering which option is the least ugly. I'm not blaming REST here but this still is a major problem seldom addressed in articles.

REST, HATEOAS and friends lean a lot on the theory side seducing you into thinking machines will use your API without human intervention and make you lose time building for a non-existant use case (and your boss doesn't want to make automated access to his data that easy by the way). I suspect they will succeed at the exact same time the semantic web succeeds.

REST tries to convince you that everything will map cleanly to the HTTP standard, and it's pretty close, but most of times it falls short in a way or another.

In pratice most blog posts will tell you to use nouns, to rely on status codes, etc, yet every other popular API will derail in a way or another when faced with the cases that don't fit.

To sum it up, theory is cute, reality is less. Having a clean scheme where everything could theoretically fit is very seducing to any software engineer. In a way it feels like the holy grail, and it could be, but maybe it's not. And if it's not, trying to make everything fit in the wrong model could just be an awful waste of time. I still like the fact that it forces my brain to think in a non-intuitive way about some problems, but well. Our profession is plagued with micro-cults, holy grail models, silver bullets, magic blueprints we try to cast everything we can get our hands on in. MVC comes to mind. I think REST is becoming my second favorite.
The most commonly implemented verb I see is PURGE, for clearing a particular url out of a reverse proxy cache.
I can't tell you how many times my IDE has "helpfully" tried to autoindent my CoffeeScript for various reasons. In CoffeeScript, if your indentation gets thrown off, your code is going to do something completely different. That's why I'm very appreciative of languages with brackets.

I know in CoffeeScript I could use parentheses to surround indented parts (because everything is an expression), but it just looks wrong when I do it. I wish CS treated parentheses and curly braces as interchangeable in most cases, which they pretty much are.
so now people can pay for sexting/nudes, actually sounds like a good use case
What do you think about 18 U.S.C. § 2703(f)?
Perhaps the company is poorly managed, but I can't see any company "replacing" cisco, especially in the light this article presents, show me where I can buy a google switch.
Context: State Electoral Commission declared a computer glitch is delaying the vote count. The problem persists, and election results are not yet available.
I think the overall point is that at least one of you or your wife has to stop working to take care of your extended family.
The license played no role in this switch :)
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Apparently we're not going to have a rational debate about this topic, which is unfortunate. For example, my comment had nothing to do with whether Ulbrict was convicted. It was strictly about asset forfeiture, which is a completely separate concept from having a trial. But of course a sarcastic one-liner is the most upvoted rebuttal.

Ulbrict is being given due process. He is also being given a fair trial. My observation is simply that there's no logical way he could have earned 50,000 BTC except by being an early miner or by running Silkroad, and apparently he wasn't an early miner.

Why is that important? Because if you're trying to change asset forfeiture, choosing which case to fight and who to defend is extraordinarily important. Let's say that the supreme court decides to reevaluate asset forfeiture, and let's say you've chosen Ulbrict as the case for them to reevaluate. Why give them more reasons to say "Our finding is that asset forfeiture is a legal and valid practice, and should not change"? By choosing Ulbrict, you aren't helping your cause.

A verdict like that will settle the debate of asset forfeiture for decades to come, so why risk such a crucial outcome so whimsically?
This reflects my experience as well - most (all?) literature and presentations on REST cover extremely simple use cases, and when you start building complex applications things start to get ... complicated, and you discover that there aren't really any REST best practices to fall back on.

If anyone has anything on implementing more complex REST APIs, I'd be interested in reading it.
So why do they care so much? Are they literally paying more because the idea of HFT burns their cookies?
Asset forfeiture against property is part of civil law and as such is still subject to the concept of a fair trial, even if in practice it often is not. The bar for conviction is lower but the process is still supposed to be considering what is fair. Just because it is civil law does not exempt it from that basic legal principle.
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unless you can convince the supreme court justices to turn against asset forfeiture, the practice will not change

Not true at all. In fact the solution is infuriatingly obvious. Require a warrant for all civil forfeitures. The proponents say it's for taking down assets of cartels (and probably alleged purveyors of black markets like in this case) so warrant is easy to get. This would prevent cops rolling average citizens on routine traffic stops so they can finance margarita machines with "pennies from heaven".

A reform like this should be an easy bi-partisan sell to congress. If they can't do it at the Federal level any pol that campaigned as a libertarian or champion of small government should be pushing for this in state legislatures.