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So all local law should be followed by internet companies? Lets say there's a political group that's anonymous but uses facebook. Turkey's PM signs an executive order telling Facebook to give up their identities and FB, by your argument, is "forced" to comply. Now this hypothetical horrible regime has information it needs to perform a politically motivated arrest.

All this gen-y moral relativism is pretty depressing. Zuck's recent catering to autocratic, theocratic, and dictator-led regimes is concerning. You can't have this platform of "give us all your personal info for social sharing - its fun and safe" at the same time you're at the beck and call of every horrible regime.

Marketshare vs ethics is a thorny issue, but I hope this is a wake-up call to those in countries with unfriendly governments about using US web based services. We will sell you out and not care one wit. We are not an idealistic people. The truth here is that the west is enabling these terrible regimes, the same way Cisco largely built the Great Firewall of China. I don't think its fair or wise to just throw our hands in the air and say, "Meh, local law" as we build oppression machines.

Its also amusing how incredibly statist libertarians become when it comes to following the law, regardless of its merit. I guess protest and ideals are for leftists only. This also has me greatly concerned about the future of the Oculus Rift. If we're going to be so friendly with censorship, what does that say about the future of things like the fabled metaverse? Can my friend from Turkey visit my home in the metaverse if I have "wrong" materials inside of it? Will I need to give Zuck read/write access to all my virtual things to make sure no theocrat in Turkey is being offended?

Its sad that geekdom, in general, has shifted from an Abbie Hoffman style "screw the man" to a very conservative "follow the man" as we realized we could make a lot of money from bits and bytes. Its weird seeing people who just a few years ago were completely outraged at the Bush administration, but seem to have no problem with Erdogan. As if Erdogan's party speaks for all Turks the same way Bush hypothetically spoke for all Americans.

Regardless, its a sad day for the millions in Turkey still fighting for their secular values.
When I decided to to buy a new laptop this year, I decide to go beyond 1366x768. And to my dismay, neither Windows nor Linux can handle even 1920x1080 correctly. All kinds of software, even many system ones, just have small fonts or blurry GUI. Eventually I settled on MacBook. I was not and am not an apple fanboy, but for now, other options are just horrible.
Why would this be more dangerous than say a virus post-mortem with, ie, Ebola?
The fact that the patch has been out since May 2013 doesn't help if few systems have it installed.

Qualys has developed a PoC that runs arbitrary code against a sample target.
Yes? I feel like you are missing the point. The Friendship Nine broke a law they disagreed with where they lived, they were in the right, and their convictions are finally about to be overturned more than 50 years later. Do you think they shouldn't have broken a stupid law?
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Spent a year with no home broadband - 2011.
8 days in Cuba.

To gain access to the internet you were required to goto the business center at one of the government hotels. The business center sold 60 minute time cards issued by the government for ~$15. These cards would have a unique code that would grant you limited access to the network.

Unfortunately for 7 out of the 8 days every hotel I went to had ran out of these cards meaning no connection to the internet whatsoever.
Only because I'm not aware if there are Adsense vouchers, do you mean Adsense or Adwords?
OP said nothing about DOJ's technical understanding. I'm sure it's decent.
According to this article (2014), iOS still has a 32.5% market share in the US. I do admit i'm surprised it's still that high in the US. It's not 50/50, but yes, still a contender in the US.

"Android now holds 61.9% of the U.S. market share to Apple’s 32.5%, the lowest percentage iOS has captured since the iPhone 4s launched in 2011."

source: http://bgr.com/2014/07/01/android-market-share-2014/
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There is no amount of statistical analysis that you could do to extrapolate the amount of traffic with anything even approaching accuracy. I also have approaching zero confidence that any government agency or even a contractor funded by the government would be able to approach adequate methods to allow even an attempt at statistical analysis.

The "small picture" you would get, is very well probably the 80% we are talking about, e.g., 80% of all traffic that is associated with kiddie porn and is also unencrypted because the perpetrators are unsophisticated is actual kiddie porn traffic, which says nothing whatsoever about the overall amount of traffic that is kiddie porn. On top of that, what are we talking about here? What is this definition of o kiddie porn? Does that number include subjects that "appear" to be underage? If I know anything, I know that the government will skew numbers to fool others and even themselves; because that's how you get money and how you build your little fiefdom.
Well there was the Bulgarian ricin-in-umbrella tip case too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov - also in London.
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I would certainly be in favor of terraforming Mars, and then seeing what could be done.

One might (or might not...) want to wait until we have clear evidence that it is indeed sterile. In either case the first thing to do would be to seed it with engineered robust lichens, or the like, just to get things started.
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it was also linked to in the actual article :-)
The source of the confusion here is obvious and pounding on it won't help. From the DoJ's perspective Tor is hidden services. Criminal abuse enabled by proxying to the open web is not high up on their radar. Regular web sites can easily block Tor. But hidden services are unique. When Tor is mentioned in the media, it's almost always because of hidden services. When it's involved in large scale FBI investigations, it's almost always because of hidden services.

So whilst Andy Greenberg's article is correct, it's correct in a nitpicky technical sense that isn't going to have any political impact as an argument. Tor has chosen to support hidden services very strongly, so the fact that it's a relatively small amount of their total traffic doesn't matter much.

The Tor project needs to take this kind of thing seriously. Alarm bells should be ringing. They are getting (apparently credible?) tipoffs about plans to seize directory authorities. Relays actually are getting seized. DoJ officials are publicly saying they perceive Tor as being dominated by crime. Meanwhile they are doubling down and making blog posts that describe police operations as "attacks". This has the feeling of a slow motion train wreck in the making.
Twice in past 3 weeks. I was at the Alafia river rendezvous, 1640-1840 traders gathering. Kept the Internet tucked away for a few days at a time.
Scary to think that the venn diagram of young gamers and future programmers is pretty substantial.

The ratio of men/women in college was pretty abysmal. This may not be the exact cause, but it certainly doesn't help the cause. Truly is a shame that so much talent is driven to other fields due to lack of basic social skills.
Thanks. Do you know if this is documented anywhere?
Anonymous free speech can sure bring out some ugly things in people. Freedoms, though, often cut both ways, protecting important and significant behaviors but also sometimes allowing sad and pathetic ones.

I think it would be delicious punishment if the author of each of those tweets were forced to read them out loud, in front of their mothers, sisters, wives, friends, bosses, coworkers, and children. If someone's willing to send messages like that to a real life person, they should see how people in real life react to their hate spew.
It's the first time I heard that, though I admit I'm not really actively involved in any type of TS community. All I've been in contact with are the TS releases and blogpost from the TS development team, for which I can only give credits (quite fast and stable development with good features), and some TS projects and definition files for existing libraries I found on github which were pretty decent and helpful. As naive as this question may be, can you tell me more about what parts of the ecosystem or which community you mean?
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I think the author is advocating that those scenarios should converge. His argument is that second scenario is an anti-pattern and should be corrected to be more inline. It might be a pipe dream, but it's still his perspective.
What are you talking about, we love forcing our ideals down other's throats, because it's always easier to criticize and tear down others than to look at the pile of shit behind us.
Have you thought about using other woods as well? If you used Cedar or white oak you would be able to target the outdoor items without really changing much in your automation (at least I wouldn't think so), you may just need to adjust your finishing process. On top of that, it would allow you to have another way to broaden the looks of your products and charge a little more. In my mind Oak is more costly than Maple which you could use to your advantage by adding extra costs to that product.

I would have one suggestion too, take off the Disqus comments from the page. I go to your Info section and the left panel has links and then the right one is blank and just a Disqus widget. It isn't really a section that would need user input, so I feel like it just doesn't fit.
Yes, I have seen this. I couldn't play with it when I was at work. I definitely love this functionality.
There already is: https://www.torservers.net/
Context is king, as many people say... That figure is pretty huge considering I average 250 pvs (on a good day)! But it's a good reminder that this is still pretty small in comparison to really big viral experiences. Thanks for that.
Twitter is mostly public, so it is really a case of self-shaming on the part of the abusive commenters.
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Has that ever been proven? I suspect it's as unproven as the theory that Tor operators are "common carriers" and as liable for the traffic that passes over their connection as an ISP is for the traffic that passes over its connections.
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Despite protestations to the contrary, white men do not receive this level of abuse. In brief spurts maybe, especially if they dare to support someone like Anita, but sustained like this? No.

So maybe, just maybe, there's a cultural problem to be discussed.
Not sure what the defect is called but I can see in the hero image that the tight floral design on the oval plaque has splintering along the edges. That's a problem with ply, but I'd be concerned that the finish was going to be v. poor based on that image.
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I suppose this is what happened to me... A lot of "noise" (it was fun!) but not many sales.
I've ran an exit node in my home for several years and the worst I've seen as a result of it is several DMCA notices and one polite call from the police in another state.
It is a fantastic book. I'd also like to recommend Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz and Simon Monk (http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Paul-S...).

I'm in the crowd that's getting into analog electronics and digital circuits backwards, as it were, by starting with programmable microcontrollers (Arduinos etc.) and moving outward from them on the circuit board. I found the latter book was particularly well suited for self-learning. It is also huge and, as far as I can tell, vastly comprehensive. The writing is clear and concise. Explanations of concepts often draw on analogy, classical electrical theory, and quantum physics alike. This multitude of approaches has helped me grasp the fundamentals more firmly than other books. It also keeps an eye on practical applications. Sections on, say, power rectifiers or op amps or timers or debouncing circuits or whatever all show you many variations on a theme, with discussion of what you would want to use in which situations.

Also, if I'm speaking to anyone else like me, software engineers who want to know hardware, buy all the books you can, but get an oscilloscope. I waited far too long for this purchase. I wouldn't write code without a debugger; this is the hardware equivalent. I recently got this little Rigol model: https://www.adafruit.com/products/681 . It costs the same as a few big electronics books, and it's the difference between stumbling around a room in the dark and having illumination everywhere.
In the worst case, Turkey could ban Facebook. Would they really do that? It's nowhere near certain.

Google left China rather than submit to their censorship regime, and the Chinese market is like 18 Turkeys.

And if you do remove content, you can make that action transparent on Chilling Effects[1]. Facebook doesn't do that, either.

There are alternatives.

And if you decide to build censorship tools to stay in the good graces of the regime, then don't say "I am Charlie" while you're doing it.

[1] https://www.chillingeffects.org/
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Yes, but this way you'd need some magic - an external C compiler or at least an assembler. Instead of implementing everything from scratch, with most of the code developed on a board itself.
Because they provide a service in Turkey and would like to continue signing up Turkish users. The internet, as you have observed, certainly does present interesting legal and, in particular, jurisdictional conundrums. But, for better or worse, it is well established that you do not need a physical pretense in a country to be bound by their laws.
They are only complying within Turkey right? The consequence of not complying with local laws you disagree with is being shut out of many countries and not being a global brand.
No, I think "the messed up part about the whole situation" is the inexcusable harrassment she is subjected to.
That's how easy it is for the regime to take something away.

Even if it wasn't effective, they could easily fabricate more convincing evidence.
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oh fuck off. social skills is not the issue here.

(and I'll happily take any down vote for saying so. The cause and effect of this whole thing is a whole lot more complicated than youre giving it credit for)
Yes, that's a big issue for living on the surface. On the other hand the atmosphere is a nice trivially accessible source of a number of important chemicals and makes getting from space to the surface much easier.
The thing is this small minority is still a large group of people harassing constantly a very small group of people day in and day out. Long after this all old news and we've all forgot about it, these women will still be harassed.

I understand what it's like to be harassed online by a mentally unstable person. It's bad enough when one person does it. I couldn't imagine a dozen. A hundred is inconceivable. And thousands... I just don't know.
They're available, and have been for 6 months (?).

Also, negative points for not using the original A-Team in their background image.
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IANAL, but would this just require someone incorporating or starting an LLC and then paying for the exit nodes in the name of that entity? Would that be sufficient protection?
This article is misleading.

"First of all, this vulnerability has long been patched" - not true, it wasn't patched on RedHat and Debian until yesterday.

"many apps are not at risk" - so, what, nothing to worry about?

"the functions that are the subject of this vulnerability are obsolete" - obsolete they may be, but a ton of software still uses them.

"Taken together, the risk of actual exploits targeting GHOST is relatively small compared to other vulnerabilities like Shellshock or Heartbleed." - just because it is not widely known how to exploit this does not imply the risk is small. Let's wait until someone figures this out or the POC exploit is made public.
That sounds fun. Where does it take place?
> The other product lines are less than 10% of revenue.

That's not true, you're thinking of Google the Ad company.

$74.9 billion - $51.18 billion (iPhone revenue) = $23.79 billion.

A bigger number I may add, then all of Google or all of Microsoft.
Originally, for performance reasons. Async code lets you handle multiple concurrent connections without having to rely on multiple threads or processes (which are more resource hungry)[0].

Nowadays, there's also the fact that if you want to use Javascript on the backend, Node.js is the de facto standard. You don't necessarily have to do async I/O but you'd be fighting against the whole ecosystem by not doing so.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preemption_(computing)#Preempti...
> that describe police operations as "attacks"

Is there a more reasonable way to describe "police operations" whose goal is to disable portions of or function of a network?
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The entire internet is full of this. Every comment section every forum its just absolute anywhere and everywhere someone can post text. Anyone who makes any statement on the internet will receive hate, the more famous you are the more you receive.
I got a kit from cncrouterparts. Really should have just bought a shopbot or something but wanted to build it myself. The biggest irony is that the easiest way to do a CNC build is with another CNC.
There is a way that has worked for established companies like Ariba, Quora, etc. It has also worked for me to some extent.
(I also got a response to cold emails that I sent to ariba and few other founders).

1. Fake one side of it : This should be applicable to most marketplaces but not all. For ex, you can fake the users who answer questions on Quora.

2. Fake both sides : This is a bit extreme but definitely a practice used. For ex, fake users asking questions and fake users answering on quora. This basically starts to create momentum validating it for new users.

3. Content : Content is a new way to solve this. This is something I have tried first hand. Create a blog on the same domain. Start creating content that explains your marketplace and starts to attract both sides of your marketplace. You can also strategize so that you start attracting the heavier side of users first( ex : buyer/seller case. If you have buyers you will end up having sellers soon).

One really important note is to see the cause and effect of your marketplace. Which side of marketplace will be easier to build if you have the other built.

Hope it helps, All the best !!
Quite often, when companies are doing what's best for business and keeping costs down, very notable things are going on. Companies function in a legal, cultural and ethical context, and it can be interesting to view their actions in this light. Wouldn't you agree?
I had none of those issues.

I also use my devices jailbroken, and there are fixes for the Javascript engine. That being said, I mostly used it without them, and even when I did I noticed no difference. Again, probably because I use the iOS browsers very little.
Not saying you are wrong (I don't know enough to disagree) but if asynchronous program is solved in node/javascript, why is there the need for all these post on callbacks, streams, promises, fibres etc?

Can you expand more on your comment and/or point to some references?
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We censor hate speech. They regard images of Mohammed to be hate speech.
There was a woman video game reviewer who messaged the mothers of boys who sent her hateful messages on Facebook, which was entertaining.

https://twitter.com/Charalanahzard/status/538144080534847489
What are you saying with your comment? That we should just accept this despicable hatred? That this is normal?
It's illegal to make death threats offline. It should be online too.
The fact that it's legal to say something, that it's uncensored, doesn't mean that it's right. Those are two different things.
I honestly don't think that a lack of social skills is to blame. I'm not the most social creature and that sort of behaviour horrifies me.

I think it is more likely a lack of empathy, combined with the view that the internet is somehow not the "real world" and an entitlement complex of incomprehensible size.
It's not that hard to get this kind of attention when one dedicates him/herself to being a professional victim.
If you carry out the request of an oppressive government, you are as much a part of it as the people physically performing atrocities. Facebook should be ashamed of themselves.
Thanks for pointing that out, brother. I always get confused between the two services.
People are pointing out how every site will now (optionally) need its own DRM module. So how is this not a worse situation for users than Flash? Now there will be several popular modules that will all have their own vulnerabilities, and need patching, with the added disadvantage that they don't all have the same set of eyes watching them, as Flash does now.
One common mechanism is the use of third-party staffing agencies who are regular employers of the staffers for the contract period the way the payroll company upthread recommended.

Direct contract-to-hire is also done, but its fairly frequently not done legally, which is why it gets additional scrutiny.
The stuff announced is good/relevant b/c it signals some important decisions and allows other parties to weigh in in time for any major shifts to be made before 1.0.
All you have to do is watch the HN comments on any thread that (even tangentially) mentions women. There's no shortage of of existing programmers / old gamers that are virulently hostile.
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Why she should NOT sign - with actual argumentation ;-)

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I still find the supposition that Facebook was supposed to defy a court order hilarious. Yes, I understand it's a court order from Turkey, not America, but you can't just flagrantly break the law in other countries simply because yours believes differently.

Does Facebook have any offices, servers or employees in Turkey? If not, they aren't required to do a thing. Even if they did, they just don't store that content on those servers (and maybe compartmentalise dealing with such data away from any employees based there) and they're fine. If that wasn't the case, then any random tinpot dictatorship (such as turkey) could make arbitrary things illegal for anyone in the world, and expect compliance from every single person in the world.

I'm sure turkey would want anyone in the world they could force to be to be brought under sharia law too, not just facebook. Does that mean we should even if we don't live there and don't visit? I for one, don't think so.
This is actually a way to eventually reduce the size of the library since it makes the class system optional.

We're definitely considering optional module based systems instead of OOP, but it's still too early. https://github.com/reactjs/react-future/tree/master/07%20-%2...
This is mistaken though. It's perfectly permissible under the first amendment. Just because it annoys Moslems in Turkey and other places doesn't mean it must be censored elsewhere.