skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went to an Encryption and Key Management in AWS presentation at the pop-up loft in San Francisco, and they explained how their KMS system is built on shared Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) that are tamper evident and have hardcoded logging. So any decryption event is logged and you'd have to physically break into the HSMs to prevent a log entry (and thus have to replace lots of equipment).

This basically meant that it would cost millions of dollars to secretly decrypt something where the user wouldn't be able to see a log of it. It's basically a "porcupine defense" where governments won't bother asking for secret decryption since it would cost so much money. They specifically designed the infrastructure to be extremely expensive to hide any log altering. It also means that governments will more likely try compromising the targets system first, rather than send a secret decryption order to Amazon.

EDIT: Additionally, since the HSMs are shared, any physical tampering would require them to notify and migrate all the other users on that HSM that are under regulations (HIPAA, PCI DSS, etc.). AWS would charge a lot of money for this sort of migration.
[ Deleted β-Lactam stuff. ]

Nature asked me for $$$ to read the article, so ... from your description, that's leaving out the hard, fast test of just culturing several billion of those, adding a lethal concentration and seeing if there are any survivors. Which is how I gather one found spontaneous transport mutations, at least circa 1977. The state of the art has likely improved, and these guys used novel microbiological methods to find the bacteria that produce teixobactin in the first place.

ADDED: thanks to betatim's link to the full text, I've skimmed it and read the discussion, and teixobactin sound quite promising. They haven't found any protein to which it binds, and they think it binds to an "Achilles's heel" in the outer cell wall. The method described to generate resistance was their most extreme attempt, so I assume they tried the fast way, and I can see why it didn't work.

Ecologically, they believe there's little gene (e.g. plasmid) transfer between these soil bacteria and human pathogens, and the "30 year" bit came from experience with vancomycin, to which it has a lot of similarity. And they've done lots of tests for human toxicity and effectiveness in mammals. It's still early in the process, but a degree of fuss is warranted, especially due to their discovery method.
On the Google results page, click "Search Tools > Any time > Custom range..." and enter a custom date range:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Charlie+Hebdo%2C&rlz=1C5CHFA...

That leads to a contact page URL, which is currently offline, but can be accessed through Internet Archive's Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140210004507/http://www.charli...

Which gives the address as:

26 rue Serpollet
75020 Paris
Job Seekers Are from Mars, Recruiters from Venus -
1. This is a major problem - patients start feeling better and discontinue therapy, which promotes resistance, save partially consumed prescriptions for "if this happens again", etc.

2. This is also a thing - broad spectrum antibiotics, difficulty in diagnosing, patients wanting something even if their infections are viral, etc. all lead to mistargeting of antibiotics for a number of reasons. Antimicrobial stewardship has become a major part of hospital infection control.

3. The widespread use of antibiotics in livestock. The agricultural use of antibiotics is staggering
From the Freenet FAQ[1]:

The true test of someone who claims to believe in Freedom of Speech is whether they tolerate speech which they disagree with, or even find disgusting.

If we are in favor of truly anonymous and free communication, we must not try to censor the content at all. The question is whether we really do support freedom of speech. In many (all?) European countries for example, freedom of speech is restricted. The freedom stops where it does harm to other people. It is a difficult problem to judge on a case by case basis when the freedom to communicate is more important than the feelings of other people.

[1] https://freenetproject.org/faq.html#offensive
When Harlequin started out with Dylan, to bootstrap we first quickly morphed LispWorks into a high-functioning Dylan IDE. This was done through a combination of macro, reader macro and CLOS MetaObject Protocol abuse, allowing us to achieve a faithful rendition of Dylan's syntax and object system semantics respectively.

When Dylan went from prefix to infix syntax the reader macro indirection got all the more elaborate: what started out as a trivial reader macro that treated colons differently started delegating to a full-blown lex & yacc style parser instead.

All the better, most of this was achieved modularly: Lisp editor buffers and Lisp listeners would run happily alongside Dylan editor buffers and Dylan listeners, Lisp code could still compile load and run alongside Dylan code, and Lisp classes could interoperate cleanly with Dylan classes.

There's no question that Common Lisp and its predecessors are some of the most formidably adaptable and hackable programming environments ever created. Only Smalltalk really comes close, and they have complementary strengths I think. Standard macros, reader macros and a comprehensive MOP are some of the key things that stand out in Common Lisp's favour in that hackability comparison.
The End of the Wantrepreneur
Perhaps this is the reason and I can't understand what the problem is myself.

http://gatesofvienna.net/2015/01/what-if-these-lone-wolves-w...
There is no muslim (extremist or not) law that encourages these acts, research it. You can tweak any law to do exactly as you wanted to do and that's what those people are doing. The last thing I know about a war (if we put this as a kind of war) is don't cut trees, don't kill non-armed soldier, women, children or old people but they keep beheading people on national television.
If we're not supposed to comment when we flag articles[1], does it really make sense to ask why?

For the record, I hit flag because while this was an outrageous act of barbarism, and indeed freedom of speech is important for all of us, the link does not particularly gratify intellectual curiosity[1]. Nor do I think it's a good idea to start discussing even significant non-hacker news of the day here. The (relative) focus of the hn community is one reason we have such an amazing stable of regular commenters.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's not uncommon for journalists to cultivate relationships with insider sources. In this case, Snapchat has a history of thinking very deeply about the future of social media: for example, one of their earliest and most influential hires is a sociologist and social media theorist.
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24/m here.

Snapchat has really taken over social communication in my group of friends. It's the number one way to stay in touch on a daily basis. I went from texting 4-5k messages a month, to less than a thousand.

If I'm walking down the street and see something I want to share, I'm not gonna post it on Facebook or Instagram because it isn't important enough and you are opening yourself up to be judged by hundreds, if not, thousands of people. Whereas with Snapchat, I can quickly take the pic, add a dumb caption, and send it to a select few people that I think might be entertained by it. Those people can then can either ignore it, or respond with their reaction or whatever. There is no pressure. No likes. It doesn't stick around for more than 10 seconds. Personally, I think they've done a great job with Snapchat. It does what it needs to do very well. Nothing less, nothing more.
It is certainly a step in the right direction, my main worry is that the OpenBSD crew has a tendency to to -- SQUIRREL!! and forget their old toy when they spot a new shiny one.
Same age group, Snapchat's appeal has also fallen significantly. It was cool last year, but not so much anymore.
... what. Well, I'm in tech, and I use it. Same with my friends and coworkers. I hope you're not suggesting we're all sociopaths.
> By everyone continuing to utilize their freedom of speech. It's really that simple. The only way to lose is to not make use of your freedom.

Do you think normal daily newspapers should print the cartoons? How about KKK cartoon propaganda? How about "With Jews you lose"? http://www.dailystormer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/with-...
Perhaps we need to reconsider the trustworthiness of unknown devices connected via USB. A simple "xxx device connected—allow?" prompt could suffice.
Fair enough. My point, however, was that an always-encrypted internet protocol would not prevent the legitimate uses of these proxies - namely, the monitoring and blocking of attempts to access particular hosts on a network - from being possible; any competent network administrator could implement filters on particular network addresses and hostnames without needing to decrypt anything in the application and transport layers, since they're operating beneath those layers in the first place (perhaps from the router/firewall, even; I'm willing to bet that such monitoring/blocking would be relatively trivial to implement as a pf ruleset, using tables for blacklisted or whitelisted hosts) or are otherwise able to view information beyond what's encrypted (such as DNS lookups). That seems to be much easier and more surefire than trying to break into TLS sessions.
Pretty sure this comment flew East of most readers' heads. ;)
I like it, good luck. Couple of things to add:

- where are you based? I'm guessing UK based purely on the railway station image, but other countries might well use similar constructions :-)

- does your Dad want to do onsite or remote? I'm guessing the enterprises most likely to engage him might insist on onsite

- does your Dad want to work on projects, or is it exclusively short term troubleshooting he's keen on?
"Terrorist attack" straw-man used to justify attacking an unrelated state target we happen not to like. Government officials appearing on complacent media outlets to beat the drums and persuade the populace that "they have conclusive evidence" and "retaliation is required to protect the country".

This ended so well last time we did it.
Looks like yes: https://github.com/google/novm/blob/master/scripts/novm-dock...
It's Highly Probable That We Have Lived on Mars
Ah, actually we do, but that runs on the load balancer. We currently use nginx on the LB but you could use haproxy alone these days.
Isn't that already occurring with Type A connectors? I've seen them cropping up all over the place, including in public areas.
The FBI is full of crap.
It's my understanding that memory bandwidth has always held back RISC.

Memory is considerably slower than CPU. CISC can be thought of as a kind of data compression for code. The article does mention this, but kind of glosses over its importance. In many cases a load from RAM can take hundreds of clock cycles, so minimizing that is a huge win. It also makes programs load faster since smaller code footprints require less disk or network access.
Right, but I think it serves the same purpose. People willingly ignore it.

Either way, the original poster I responded to with the anecdote wasn't even the author of the article, but someone on here who provided another anecdote, but didn't give the same such warning or any indication that they knew what they were saying wasn't an actual relevant argument....
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Another anecdote for file: I spoke with an early-twenty business student, also studying in Texas. Snapchat and GroupMe were their preferred chat programs.

I personally prefer WeChat for its Group Voice chat. This was developed in Shenzhen; Mandarin is notably tonal so voice is a selling point.
Is BOS still around? I genuinely thought it had been closed down and that was why everyone had jumped ship. Andy is also a moderator over at the Bootstrapped forums: http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/
You're correct, I'll correct my post.
I wish I could enjoy using a crock pot, but try as I might I just can't. Everything always tastes very steamed, or boiled, especially with meat. I would love to use one for than keeping stuff warm, because it's such dead simple cooking.
This is not in a similar vein. Leading zero's for values less than 1 is the correct way to write values less than 1.

3-character or 6-character hex values is only a matter of optimization (fewer characters, which the compiler should be able to handle), and consistency (having both the 3- and 6-character versions in the same file or definition). Case is personal preference and nothing more.
I am curious that if they don't write things about them on FB, how could they find out who one is on FB?
I thought we determined that it was an inside job and not North Korea at all? And that the FBI was lying about everything.
Great way to utilize some low productivity days! If people have something planned for the actual week, maybe you could consider giving them the next 3 days off so they still get a "week" off.
I was teaching a lesson on cryptography to a bunch of twelve year olds this morning, and with reference to https, I asked how many had used Facebook before school - no hands, how about Instagram - no hands, how about Snapchat - half the class put their hands up. It's definitely the most popular network amongst teens in my (UK) school.
Scratch that, the New York Times has published a map diagram:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/07/world/europe/c...

This would appear to match the second address listed in the Yellow Pages as found by informatimago:

10 Rue Nicolas Appert
75011 Paris
Right. I believe this what the National Weather Service does for their radar maps. They're using a polar projection from the location of each station. Points 100 miles north, south, east or west will all fall in a perfect circle around the center of the map.

http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar.php?rid=lgx&product=N0R...
Yes, it's funny how it's a "terrorist attack" when a country we don't like does the same things we do. The most prominent recent example of the US (and Israel) carrying out an attack like this is Stuxnet.
It is quite interesting how so many are hoping against hope that it was not North Korea. I don't really see why they are emotionally attached.
If it has the same relative safety of use as penicillin lines of antibiotics, but is more robust in its method of action to prevent resistance occurring as easily, then my guess would be it would be preferable to use as widely as possible.

The idea is that drug resistance comes with a metabolic cost. We're making them do something to survive that we didn't before, and it's going to come at a cost.

If we think of them like cars--armoured ones are extremely rare. However, if we started randomly shooting at cars, and did so for a protracted period, we would eventually see them become more common. The fact they're slower, don't turn as well, and use more fuel is now negligible because of the excessive benefit of it's contents not being shredded.

If the implementation of this new antibiotic came with a moratorium on the prescription of penicillin, then we would be targeting the population as a whole with an RPG. It doesn't matter if you're armoured against bullets anymore. Both the normal and the resistant will be put under the identical survival pressures, which should mean it is more effective against the resistant strains as these won't be as fast to replicate.

The problem from what I understand is that tackling antibiotic resistant drugs with drugs designed for antibiotic bacteria, just makes super bugs.

Essentially if we cleared the roads of regular cars and left ourselves with armoured cars, and then start firing RPGs at them, we'll end up with vehicles resistant to those. We will end up with APC's on the road.

If we implemented a moratorium on penicillin strain antibiotics, we could potentially reverse the current epidemic of multi-drug resistant strains. It would be like starting anew - assuming there's no genes that are equally beneficial against both drugs.

That's my understanding of the reasoning behind suggesting broad use, but I could be way off.
This is a solved problem: https://chocolatey.org/packages/filezilla

Chocolatey packages include silent, malware free installers
Well that would make it a slam dunk.
As a consumer, I'm aware that Amazon is often more expensive. It's often less expensive as well. It varies wildly based on product, merchant, category, etc. But I never debated any of that nor made any claims along those lines. I simply quoted Amazon's own Terms for merchants. Merchants are required to make the lowest price available in their Amazon listings and can have their product or account pulled if they do not. As a consumer (or competitor), feel free to report any merchants who refuse to comply. As a merchant myself, these terms are actually the reason we don't sell on Amazon at all at present.
Which is why one of the suggestions for improving antibiotic development is to heavily subsidize it - working antibiotics are a public good, and if you remove the need to sell drugs in order to pay for their development, you remove the incentive to use them too widely.
Fully agree with your technical AND political analysis. I commented along the same lines when the attacks were first announced and got downvoted. When a way of thinking is too far ahead of the crowd, the HN algorithm fails.
There's no emotions involved -- just like there's no evidence involved.

It's flat out wrong to blame some small and non-credible-threat country for something they likely had nothing to do with just to advance a political agenda.

North Korea is not a great country... but that doesn't mean a "global leader" like the USA can just pin something on them with zero evidence.
Well, I wouldn't say "worthless". If you're looking for a macro view of usage, sure, but again it's unfair to expect that from a piece that starts by flatly stating that's not what it provides.

What it does provide is a very clear sense as to how all of these different services end up playing very complimentary roles in an individual's life. Even if the particular services involved have a popularity that waxes or wanes, the broader picture formed by the complex decision making that resolves people's thoughts and feelings into one network or another remains fascinating. And that aspect of social media seems like it's here to stay.

So sure, this perspective may be worthless to you, but most smart people are sophisticated enough to realize that others have perspectives different from theirs. A person designing or developing social networks, for instance, would have to think about the stuff in this post very carefully if they had any hope of getting their own product into the mix. Yes, they would need the macro view too, but in the absence of the direct personal perspective (which is the perspective held by literally every single one of their prospective users), their efforts are guaranteed to fail.

Short version: if you're going to call something "worthless" be sure to include the essential qualifier "to me". Otherwise you just seem ridiculously self centered.
> "it's as though they are posting not to show people stuff but to get people's approval for what they are posting"

Which is generally how the average westerner has behaved for generations. They don't acquire and desire clothes, music, books, movies, ideas, hair-styles and gadgets solely based on best personal fit. They acquire and desire based -- very heavily -- on the opinions of those tribes they admire.

(And while teenagers and young-adults are far more susceptible to this sort of "fashion", older folks are far from immune to it.)
It's a visual programming overlay over Scheme, but the videos don't work, and the hopefully useful wiki link is broken. Kind of useless page...
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I can't resist following up with this quote from that page:

"""Stephen Jenkins noted that the feedback phenomenon could continue; in the case of pizza, he wrote that the return of pizza to Italy again influenced American cuisine: "...pizza-loving American tourists, going to Italy in the millions, sought out authentic Italian pizza. Italians, responding to this demand, developed pizzerias to meet American expectations. Delighted with their discovery of "authentic" Italian pizza, Americans subsequently developed chains of "authentic" Italian brick-oven pizzerias. Hence, Americans met their own reflection in the other and were delighted."""

-- Stephen Jenkins (2002), "Black ships, Blavatsky, and the Pizza effect: critical self-consciousness as a thematic foundation for courses in Buddhist studies", in Victor Sōgen Hori; Richard P. Hayes; James Mark Shields, Teaching Buddhism in the West: from the wheel to the Web

It's the sort of feedback mechanism that really brings out the cool effects various cultures have on each other. Not only can one culture co-opt an idea, but the original may take it back and own it, only to have it co-opted again. It's a sort of cultural evolution. (And let's be honest, brick-oven pizzas really are superior to everything else, so I'm not going to complain.)
I've had similar experiences with cigarettes. I've stopped and then decided to start several times. I've found the easiest way to quit, which makes it so simple but I don't even have to think about it, is to dramatically change my circumstances and daily habits, like a new job, new roommates, or moving.
This is a cool "concept", but appears to be a practical impossibility. Stupid laws of physics:

http://deepseanews.com/2014/01/triton-not-dive-or-dive-not-t...
it is still an opinion (you know free speech). I assume in a civilized world, when you make a statement that upset somebody, you apologize. Something like http://xkcd.com/814
I wouldn't say it is being emotionally attached to be sceptical of something that is presented without solid evidence.
From http://news.softpedia.com/news/Spotlight-Odd-Looking-Scuba-M..., "Designer Jeabyun Yeon's odd-looking and quite innovative concept scuba mask works by turning people into fish".

No indication that this is an actual product. I could create a "concept" perpetual motion machine, but that doesn't make it feasible.
Probably not highly probable, but upvoted because I love stuff like this. We really don't know very much about the distant past or the "big questions," so radical stuff is always within the realm of possibility at the very least.
Full text for free: http://rdcu.be/bVbR

This is a link to nature's new "share it for everyone to read if you have paid access to the article" version of 'open-access'.

A new antibiotic kills pathogens without detectable resistance, Nature, January, 2015. DOI: 10.1038/nature14098
Actually it is more Xerox PARC style, not only Smalltalk[0].

From the post I am not sure if the author has checked Interlisp-D.

Or the Lisp Machines and commercial Lisps like Lisp Works and Franz Lisp.

Sometimes I wish younger generations would care to look more into what was happening at Xerox PARC and ETHZ, and less at what was happening at AT&T.

Great post.

[0] Interlisp-D, Mesa/Cedar provided similar experiences.
If you have new projects you can try this out on with out too much risk, then please do give this a go and report/blog about it!

(I, too, am extremely dissatisfied with the current state of ES5-based JS modularity. Frankly it's incredible that anyone can get anything done at all given the state of tooling for modularity/building/deployment ATM.)