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A group from Code For America came to my town recently (Tempe, AZ) and they address a lot of the issues with access to public data. Was really glad to see things like this exist. http://www.codeforamerica.org
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"They're also the generation whose reforms were followed by several decades of the most incredible economic and technological growth in the history of the human race."

It's amazing what war does for you.

First, it directs massive amounts of resources to research and development to kill or not to be killed. Rockets, radar, modern first aid, the internet, GPS, etc, etc.

Next - and even better - is when the war is fought elsewhere. By the end of 1945, Europe was flattened, the Soviet Union had shifted its resources to competing militarily, China was ransacked, and Japan's industrial base was destroyed.

It's easy to have "incredible economic and technological growth" when you're the only one left standing.
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I would imagine that the FCC could escalate hard, too. Ignore the fines, and I understand they can disable the device. That is, they actually can enter and physically disable the equipment (like a raid). It's a shocking power that I have never heard abused, but is sort of the nuclear option for "stop that!"

(Looking around, it seems the FCC really does try to work things out first via paperwork before barging in. Prolly some good pirate radio station stories out there on this...)

Edit: here's the link they provide that summarizes the laws affecting jammers. No doubt that rbc is right: this has teeth, and they're sharp.

http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/jammer-enforcement
Anyone have the source code to ANALIZA? It's on github, right?
There's no need to disable the functionality. It's just WebRTC. It's not using any resources unless you're actually using it.
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To make us think A.I. like 'doctor' is going to train agents or extract secrets. Need big budget for research.
If they're only running exit nodes, they're not going to control every node in a circuit.
Using a stingray would be just as illegal as the Wifi jamming for you, me and the Marriot.

Whether law enforcement or other government agencies have the right to use a stingray (or wifi jamming for that matter) is a totally different debate. (One that we should have, ideally before they start using it, but a different one nonetheless)
I would not trade my Amiga experience for any other computer of the era. It's what set my high standards for what technology SHOULD be able to do.
They'll only see 5GB from www.example.com:443, the request path is protected by HTTPS. With some kind of DNS security they'd only see 5GB from 12.23.34.45:443.
I'm not 100% confident, but I'm pretty sure the author does not care if you think they're incompetent. The author's skill and apparent interest is in explaining an inherently difficult concept (reverse engineering a complied executable) in a way that won't cause their audience (not you) to tune out and/or go running for the hills.

Could they adjust the snippet? Sure. Will it add anything to the essay to do so? Nope.
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WebRTC was "generically" added to Firefox in 2013, ie:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/06/webrtc-comes-to-firefox/

Of course, with it being added generically, tons of websites immediately started using it..... nope. Ok, well, lets go back before that blog post...
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/02/hello-chrome-its-firefox-c...

Ah ha, isn't that neat. WebRTC in Firefox and Chrome and a demo of it! Wait, still pretty much zero use in the wild of WebRTC...

This is why Google/Mozilla are adding features utilizing these new specs to the browser, because they're cool and no one else is. In the case of WebRTC, it's for a good reason, its a PITA to run TURN/STUN servers to ensure that people behind firewalls can establish a connection.
> If your application goes down, all you want is to get it back up. What if your cloud provider is down? Use DATAPATH.IO to route your users to a healthy location while keeping your IP addresses.

But... what happens if datapath.io goes down?
The obvious reason is that we live in a sexist world. if women were treated the same way as men your comment would be true.

See http://xkcd.com/385/
An Amiga cast as the wrong thing to buy? Heaven forbid.
Computers behind some types of NATs can't use peer-to-peer video: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traversal_Using_Relays_around_N...
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Thank you very much for this, it's given me a lot of hope. Your pre-Adderall experience sounds completely identical to my life as it is now.

I've always avoided seeing a doctor about it because of horror stories I've heard about Ritalin and Adderall from friends and strangers. I don't want to become dependent on any sort of drug, or at least not in a way that affects me in the long term or causes serious withdrawal issues. If it actually does the job with tolerable side effects I'd be okay with taking it for the rest of my life.

I'm going to arrange an appointment in the near future.
i mean it says:

> Hello is super easy to use and your friends and family don’t even need Firefox to join your conversation. As long as they have a compatible browser, they’re good to go.

as far as i've read this is basically appear.in but with some native buttons in firefox, and optional firefox account integration.
> They were mostly abolished in the 1996 Telecom Act.

The enforcement was abolished. The monopolies weren't. Nothing has been done to repair the damage done.
Mentioned this in my first post. Basically the currency is a speculative asset that doesn't do anything for DNA folding since the amount you lose from monetary supply increase is could just be donated through bitcoin to DNA folding.
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Man, this sucks. I'm hoping, out of loyalty to his staff and readers, he'll keep the thing going but maybe take a back seat. When he took a month off a while back, his guest bloggers did a pretty good job and his full-time staff does a great job of finding interesting content. This is a model of journalism that I can really get behind and it would be such a waste to let the whole thing just fade away.
Facebook uses WebRTC for calls on the release versions of Firefox. That probably counts for something.
If you want to try this out on the latest nightly build, you'll have to replace `std::io` with `std::old_io`.
Is Apple really an outlier? Many Japanese companies do the same. Nintendo is famous for its huge cash reserves. It can help a company see through regular ups and downs of the market.
Since no one realizes that Mozilla actually develops stuff in the open (vs. code/project-dumps like Google after its 'done'), here's the Mozilla project page for Hello (previously called Loop):
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Loop

A bunch of the hypothetical questions here on HN could be answered easily by skimming over this page and some of the pages linked in.

Edit: I'm not suggesting its bad or good to get a project to a more polished state before open-sourcing it, mainly just pointing out that for good/bad, Mozilla does happen to keep the entirety of the process very open.
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My PhD program was in neuroinformatics and it exactly was this intersection, it was not an accurate comment. Hinton knows neurophysiology, its clear in any of his talks he reads about the weird illusions that give us insight into the computational mechanisms going on in the inside. (e.g. how we recognize rotated objects but with symmetry unresolved)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroinformatics
I've had good experiences with talky and I know hangouts uses webrtc.

I think the biggest problem is the lack of accounts, chat, logging, and persistence in webrtc. Thats what keeps it from being a p2p communication protocol in general whereas now its just a toy for video calls.

I mean, when you cannot share links during your video call easily, somethings wrong.
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I think the idea is that datapath only functions when you go down. ie: if only you go down, datapath will fix it via BGP magic. If datapath is down and you are up, stuff continues to work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422411861&feature=pla...
I don't get it either. The author is adding a common dependency to two independent series makes them correlated, which to me seems trivially true. He then goes on to say that this form of correlation is uninteresting, because we're only interested in whether variations are correlated, which doesn't seem so trivially true: after all, a linear trend is a first-order variation, and if two things both increase at the same rate, then their relationship is worth at least a second look.

It looks like what the author is really trying to say is that we should pass the data through a high-pass filter, eliminating any 'expected' trends such as inflation, and instead observing if the noise of the two datasets is correlated. This is an observation that has some value, but is certainly not trivial to pick a threshold for the high-pass (certainly it's not always just a linear trend), and the mutually dependent variable can have as much noise (if not more) as the two measured data sources, so you still might get "false" correlation.
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Funny that this appears now, because I recently decided that I'd like to get back into ASCII art by making ASCII art shrimp. Of course, they are less detailed and smaller in size than much of the artwork here, but that's part of the fun. I started by asking a few people on tilde.town if they'd like to add any and fairly quickly I had a decent collection.

You can see them at http://tilde.town/~owenversteeg/. If you have any to add, please let me know and I'll put them up!
> My reaction can best be summarized as sadness. I was never under the impression my home country was somehow better than the states, ...

AFAICT, you're a timber-and-oil operation with a small enough population to make it profitable; Saudi Arabia with snow. If those of us in the States could still live that way, we would. That said, you seem a bit less eager to exploit your Fellow Man, so you're slightly better.
My first question is what are the use cases are. Do you know if it's just like Patrick Mckenzie describes?: A SaaS company looking to import user data but the user data can be structured oddly.

I'd need to know how people would use such a service in order to start figuring out the UX.
What is interesting is that they have a request in for a rule change http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/proceeding/view?name=RM-11737

So even with the fine, etc. they are still moving forward on trying to get the rule changed. As the say "It's not over until the fat lady gets paid off to sing a different song"

Here is their petition http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=60000986872
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I've updated my user.js helper/repo to disable Hello/"codename Loop" - https://github.com/m-kal/PrivatePanda

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Dear Mozilla,

Firefox is a browser. Can you please stop with the feature creep? That'd be lovely. Remember, you're a browser, not an operating system. Oh, you'd like to be an operating system? Cool, then make an OS (o hai there Firefox OS) and keep that functionality there. Stop adding extra features that are not needed to browse the internet.

It seems only Lynx cares about an authentic node-to-node / client-to-server relationship without all the privacy concerns :-(
I dunno about you but I've never tried working naked in a jacuzzi after having finished an entire bottle of McCallan 12 Year so I can't say I wouldn't enjoy it... maybe he just knows something the rest of us don't.
The IP is well know so I'm not sure I follow the point about DNS. Also note it's not that they see 'about 5GB' but the size of every packet and exactly when they were sent / or in reply to what other packets. They can also have bots watching for all new content as its posted and who downloads files of the same size, etc. I would assume HTTPS will not stop someone from knowing what files you are downloading from a nation-state adversary.
To be fair, that's one sentence in the second to last slide of 42 slides. The presentation, at least what I can see in the slides, is hardly Java bashing :) There are 3 mentions of Java in the whole presentation, only one of which has negative connotations: the one you quoted.
I am happy to see Firefox adding any sort of functionality as long as they dont break the web standards. For example it would be bad if Firefox Hello comes as "hello.firefox.com" but does not work in Chrome.

But if it comes as a Firefox only extension I am fine with it.
> I do agree college should not be free. It devalues the education and puts those who are there to truly learn at a disadvantage. Who wants to be in classes alongside people who just there because its free, or for the ride?

At what point do you draw the line for free education? I've definitely heard similar arguments about sending kids to private high-schools and middle schools, but I don't think we should force people to pay for a middle school education.
The stupidity and short-shortsightedness of people's perceptions is astounding.

A few Russians thieves play a high stakes games fight among themselves in Britain, some of them get killed and you figure that is of concern to the cause of "justice"? You think this late late inquiry is anything to do with "justice"? Why did they not have the inquiry straight after his death?

Real justice would be served by putting warmongers like Tony Blair and his cabinet through a very rigorous inquiry on why they decided to bomb innocent Iraqis back to the stone age. Nasty war to the doorstep of the Western world my arse... how about the f who upended the whole of the Middle East with their invasions based on lies, deceit and unchecked greed? That is what is serving to radicalize a section of the British community and bringing problems to their doorsteps. The Muslim community can see that their coreligionists are being made to suffer, indeed are facing horrific death and eradication of their culture and way of life, just because a few white men want to make money. They can plainly see that the Chilcott Inquiry is just a whitewash and moreover was conceived as one from the start. And they don't want to be taken for fools.

The Western world is in more danger from a few home grown radicals/terrorists/etc then from the Russian Bear and it's games within it's own backyard -- witness recent terror attacks in Western countries.

As for Russians settling scores in Britain, why not simply refuse them entry? It's not like the British government is not aware of where the oligarchs and gangsters make their money before they allow them to settle in the UK -- but then that requires saying no to money that is dirty and immoral but very easy to get, something the British have always found hard to do.
We live in a sexist world therefore even more sexism is necessary to eradicate the sexism.

Pretty brilliant logic, there. You missed OP's point entirely.
Is this going to be an ongoing thing? I actually just "semi-moved" (couch surfing with friends) to SF last week and I'd be interested in trying this out but I still need to update my Github quite a bit...
So if I am an unpaid slack user how do I screenshare with a user that is not a slack user?

If I am an unpaid member of several unpaid slack teams how do I continue to use screenhero?

Can I opt in to a paid single user and use screenhero across my multiple slack teams?
I have to mostly agree with this sentiment. But there is of course the question of revenue streams. I won't fault Mozilla for having a default WebRTC provider (like they do for search provider), but the provider needs to be configurable by the end user. I'm hopeful that the long-term goal is exactly this.
Does this mean it currently is only a problem for mail servers?
Ah - I guess you want something more like http://www.manageengine.com/products/service-desk/help-desk-... then
Agreed, I believe Hello will be added text chat along with the video calls using WebRTC data channels in an upcoming release.
I don't see how is the fact that Telefonica is wiring a town with FTTH incompatible with what has been said about them.

There is a headline: Peter Thiel: Google Is A Monopoly - Business Insider

Being a monopoly isn't illegal, abusing that position is, and that's what Telefonica was fined for.
After I was a few lines in I also thought "yep, this is a chat bot."

I could see how a chat bot's repetitive and probing nature could wear down an interrogation subject though.
If finding that we live in a sexist world is a good reason to be even more sexist, then you can throw away every movement that tries to do the opposite.

"some guys don't know how to act around women", it was said. Well, people should know how to act around people, no matter gender or race. This statement does not collaborate to end with any kind of discrimination: it is already discriminating.
Cool, I didn't know that. It definitely counts for something.
And what requires them to permit encrypted anything traffic? ISPs get away with unjustified port blocking all the time, and with deep packet inspection to throttle traffic they don't approve of.
You can't have complete peer-to-peer with browsers unless you properly implement multicast groups or something of that sort. So peer-to-peer needs help bootstrapping by providing some registration service (a meet-in-the middle if you wish).

That is what Telefonica might be doing -- providing a default registration service.

Also because of funky routers and NAT rules, even after the initial session is set up data/audio might not be going through, so then you need STUN or TURN servers so Telefonica might be providing those as well.
...and I'd actually say that for programmers the percentage of people who were young gamers is lower that for the rest of the population (or at least their gaming looked a bit different, focused on different genres etc.).
What the author is trying to explain are the concepts of cointegration and stationarity. A useful introduction here: http://www.uta.edu/faculty/crowder/papers/drunk%20and%20dog....
Right but astronomy isn't called telescope science either. Whereas computer science is.
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The parent was actually reply in the style of the AI program
I don't think you read danr's logic correctly, but I could be wrong.

I interpreted it as "The reason women want to be treated differently [from how they are NOW] is that the world is a sexist place." Not, "The reason women want to be treated differently [from MEN] is that the world is a sexist place."
>They'll be able to get any information out of us that they want if they have enough time and we keep talking.

NSA having recordings of all your conversations in presence of your (even visually turned off) smartphone or any other electronic connected device, recordings of all your movements, all your computer activity, emails, internet browsing, video recordings of you in many locations... correlated with such recordings of other people - what else they are to know about you? They will be able to predict your tomorrow's behavior better than you, like the girl you meet and how it will go :)
Late last year MiST released our 20th anniversary pack, you can find it on artpacks.org -- it was interesting seeing everyone back together again (the power of Facebook I suppose). It looks like we might start releasing regularly again too!
Wow. Great stuff. Some friends and I started CiA.

One of my masterpieces: http://artpacks.org/1996/cia40oz2.zip/TE-WETHR.JPG
After looking at the documents, they seem to be harvesting http get requests. The initial get is sent to the hosting service, which then directs the user to wherever they are keeping a copy of the wanted file. That location changes regularly. Only the initial get, the initial link, would be consistent.

If I am right, spoofing the system should be easy. Sending a get doesn't mean you download anything. Sending a few thousand protest gets could mask those you actually follow through on.