skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps we should use spread spectrum techniques instead of a single prominent carrier frequency. That way, the signal will look mostly like noise and will not trigger any biological mechanisms that resonate at certain frequencies.
It's a nearly impossible comparison to make. Under Steve Job as CEO (and with Tim Cook in key operational roles), Apple went from innovative, iconic, dying computer maker to one of the world's most successful companies, top pc maker, creator of shiny new products, upender of markets, stupidly profitable retailer, global brand name, etc, etc.

Under CEO Tim Cook, Apple's gone from that to a ludicrously more profitable, bigger version of that. He's clearly done very well but the starting point is different, the time period is shorter. Tim Cook helped Apple become an Imperial Star Destroyer and is apparently a pretty competent captain of one.
A better use case might be "Have a friend in the US proxy your [web streaming provider] traffic."

Protection from this: http://i1.wp.com/www.inferse.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/...
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Don't do it. If you feel guilty please donate through a local shelter. That way all the people you don't see asking for money (children) can actually be helped.
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That was not my point, I over-reacted to a pattern of argument that bothers me when my own mind repeats it.

I agree that security should be taken seriously, with care and caution, and that users who ethically need to be aware of potentially fallacious assumptions about the usage of a device should have the capacity to easily find that information.
I had the same reaction, though I'll note that it rapidly becomes obvious it's a different story.
I was thinking about this just recently, but instead of likening these kind of things to sci-fi, I was thinking more along the lines of non-Euclidian geometry, i.e. what if we take something that is considered to be axiomatic, and change it - a whole different world emerges.

For example, throw out the notion that memory is volatile - or slightly more practically, what if the price we pay for automatic memory management in our programming languages also bought us abstraction over the volatility of memory? How different would our systems look? For one thing, switching things off and back on again wouldn't be the "cure-all" that it mostly is today.

The fact that we can build systems like Smalltalk tells us that much of our current notions of computing are merely convention, not axiomatic at all.

Smalltalk and Forth are definitely "different convention" things, while SICP and CTM are more like detailed examinations of things that might really be axiomatic, giving us the means of combination, and hopefully the means to imagine building things beyond what our mindset of present conventions would allow.
seems a whole lot more simple that the brain and nervous system are electromagnetic in nature (any google result, such as http://www.caltech.edu/news/neurobiologists-find-weak-electr...), and EMF induces current.
Right, and that is the biggest issue I have with the unstoppable claim. I understand that they talk about the service, but even when they mention potential personal liability for the developers in the end, end users are ignored.

This is as 'stoppable' or dangerous as torrenting content is in your legislation and this product/service doesn't protect you from prosecution.
I think you should consider the possibility that he is not participating in this discussion in good faith.
If I were going to download copyrighted material, I certainly wouldn't do it over BitTorrent. When the software architecture ensures the only target is the end user, surely end users will end up targeted. When that happens, that single download which would have fallen below the $1,000 threshold is now actually criminal distribution of a work being prepared for commercial distribution.

Your VPN provider's IP address is public information. A quick subpoena is all it would take to reveal your identity. Seems like a risky way to watch Game of Thrones. At least on Usenet a download is just a download.
> I think most people watch TV on a TV

HBO Go is an online service for people with an HBO subscription through a Cable/Satellite provider that's billed as making HBO content available on other devices; while you might get some utility out of HBO GO on a TV (e.g., for streaming back catalog content that isn't available through HBO On Demand), its not really the primary use case.

OTOH, neither is using it through a browser; I think the mobile app (which does support HD) is the main vehicle. I'm somewhat surprised if the browser version doesn't, but not that surprised
Where do you imagine that this system is applied? What China is working on is more akin to credit ratings in that it is openly part of decision making processes for non-shadowy actors. The NSA might have such a system internally but there's not evidence to suggest it would affect your life in any way (if you are a US citizen inside the US).
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Agreed, I still have the first iPad, bought when it launched in Europe. The browser dies pretty often compared to an iPad 3, but it us still sort of usable for browsing and watching movies.
Any time there's an amplifier and antennae?
This is a brilliant quote:

"Surely this is why Jimmy Carter remains the most puzzling American President in recent times. We have too often insisted on trying to understand him using the default modes of identity politics: as a white, Southern born-again Christian. But Carter was by profession and training an engineer—a disciple of the greatest and most influential engineer in the history of the U.S. Navy, Admiral Hyman Rickover. Rickover, Carter once said, had more influence on him than anyone except his parents. In his literalness, his relentless candor, his practicality, Carter was the Toyota engineer by the side of the road doggedly lecturing us on how to drive the car. Carter’s true nature is puzzling only if we remain rooted in the fantasy that the world we inherit somehow matters more than the world that we chose for ourselves—and that surrounds us, from nine to five, every working day of our adult lives."
There are many instances of people reporting boomcheap malware after installing Time4Popcorn (popcorn-time.se): https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/2l3d4t/boomche...

Time4Popcorn probably had to rebrand to popcorn-time.se for these issues. It is not properly open source, while on popcorntime.io you can see the latest source at git.popcorntime.io, on popcorn-time.se you can only get tar balls.

Time4Popcorn (popcorn-time.se) does not even include the node-webkit viewer in their app. The executable itself is just a iframe to http://app.popcorn-time.se/.
I'm offended that the person thinks adults are too "weak" or "sensitive" to be made fun of and have to be treated like children. Or did the thought that being treated like a temperamental child might be offensive to someone not cross your mind?

/partially devils advocate, partially honest feelings
Content Security Policy (CSP) is an additional layer of security protection that can significantly reduce the risk and impact of web injection attacks like XSS on modern browsers. At Yahoo we are serious with enabling CSP on all major properties and have made significant progress towards that goal. Setting the CSP policy and fine tuning it is a challenge because of feature and implementation disparities between versions or browsers. csptester.io is a tool to test policy behavior across multiple browsers, learn CSP and understand disparities.

What is CSPTESTER.IO?

http://csptester.io is a Node.js-based web app that can frame a user’s HTML content and allow them to test CSP policies in a browser of their choice to see what fails/works. You may optionally even try XSS attacks against your code.
The HBO GO apps for things like Roku are also laughably bad. One of the best examples of truly not caring about UX is their default sorting of episodes. All shows sort episodes by most-recent air date, including shows that have fully aired, so if you want to get to the first episode of a show you have to scroll through a full season's worth of episodes. This is after having to scroll through all HBO shows alphabetically to find the one I want with no concept of recently watched. Again compare to Netflix where it takes a single button press to start watching a new series on every platform. There is a clear pattern that some companies just don't care about customer experience.
Shouldn't you have put the disclaimer first? Gladwell has cherry picked reality to weave the narrative he wants.
How different is it from the public concerns about microwaves/cellphones from the last decade ?
In an adversarial judicial system, can a judge trust the prosecution to not tamper with digital evidence? What can the defense do in a situation where the prosecution plants an identical storage device (hard disk drive, ssd, flash drive) that contains cp specimen?

Does the judge simply take prosecution's word? If so, why can't they just take the defense's word that they don't know the password?
This is pretty interesting, because I have radiofrequency ablation treatments every 6-12 months, where they stick wires near the nerve roots in my neck and run RF through the wire until it heats to 100C, thereby killing the nerves that transmit pain to my spinal chord.

Wonder what an internal radiosource that powerful does to the rest of me?

There's another, less invasive version called pulsed radiofrequency ablation that doesn't cook the nerves - it uses the RF signal to confuse/fuck up the nerves without killing them. Doesn't work as well, but less risk. I wonder if DNA/radio is part of how pulsed RF works?
Ask HN: Why do go apps have to live in $GOPATH/src?
I don't get why GO projects need to live in $GOPATH, i know this is at least a requirement of Go deps but it seems dumb.
How's OPAL support looking on Linux these days? Last time I looked all I could find was: https://github.com/r0m30/msed
The saddest part is that if they wanted they could adopt a hybrid central seed/P2P model, too, and be able to offer HD content without overwhelming their servers (in fact there more would people watch a certain episode at a given time, the better it would work).
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> "unintended acceleration -> outright fabrication"

> If there were a shred of truth to this the press and in particular news magazines like 60 minutes as well as WSJ and NYT would be all over this

ROTFLMAO!!!

In the 80ies, it was 60 minutes who manufactured an "unintended acceleration" story, pretty much out of thin air. Well, some compressed air as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration#...

What they claimed was physically impossible, and never happened. More here:

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cjm_18.htm

Anyway, here's the kicker: my dad, who was an executive at Volkswagen, received an anonymous letter in the 90ies, from people who claimed they had engineered this scare, and who offered their "services". Could have been a hoax, but considering how engineered the whole thing was and how effective, I am not so sure.

So I am ever so slightly skeptical when I hear of unintended acceleration stories, and I think your trust in 60 minutes and the rest of the media is, er, misplaced.
Nice demo. Here's a video of guys doing it at production speed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU-7NffSSHk

Another common tool (in the US at least) is the Hoedad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1gPVuITMgc
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This was one of the nicest pieces of writing I've seen in a great while, you clearly had huge affection for mihai.

It's strange I never knew mihai or even that he existed, I've noticed the FF developer tools and console get hugely better over time and it never occurred to me to think about who was behind that.

I have a medical condition that may well land me in a wheelchair in time to come but even that pales in comparison to EB, I get paid in the next few days and will donate to honour a man I never knew who did the thing that he loved.
During cross examination, the defense attorney can ask "Did you plant this evidence?"

Alternatively, the defendant can take the stand and declare that they don't know the password and the porn isn't theirs.

Then the jury decides who to believe.
The FirstLook article and the EFF suggest DiskCryptor

https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-encrypt-your-windows-devic...
> The fatal error in computer science was that it modeled complex systems without truly understanding them.

Its a nice quote, but science is all about modeling complex systems as a way of understanding them...arguably, human "understanding" of systems is just modeling of them.
There will be less incentive when developers are raided and brought to court for their high crimes against the industry.

Why not have the FBI go after the pirates instead of changing the structure of their business?

It works well for them when it comes to unlicensed reproductions and hardware that facilitates piracy.

If Popcorn time could turn a dime while playing the game legally, and become a threat like Netflix was, I'd believe it.

It's easier to crack a few skulls legally when pirates start getting flagrant than it is to treat them like a legal competitor.
Reminds me of what Gabe Newell said about piracy: It's not a pricing issue, but a service issue.
In this case, its response to a large frequency band of electromagnetic waves is.

Hence "fractal antenna".
I want to poke fun, but honestly since I started having to work with IIS and ASP at my new job, I actually appreciate that I can get all the MS tools I need for free, now, and that there is a more "open" community I can pull knowledge and code from than when I worked with MS tech back in the 90s.

I'm a GNU/Linux-libre hacker and have tried to be strict outside of work about my coding environment and how I compute. But when I look at the dominant tech out there, MS is actually making strides in the right direction while Apple is going backwards. Kudos to MS for hiring the right people with the right mindset.

We'll see how long it lasts...
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True, and if someone has a link handy for a similar review covering >1mm wavelengths it would undeniably be more pertinent. Still, the original link rubs me wrong in two ways:

1. It's paywalled. Many of us can't even RTFP.

2. It's clearly trying to prove a pet model.

There's nothing inherently wrong with #2, but #2 makes this article a bad place to start a discussion among non-experts who aren't in a position to judge the model in comparison to others that answer similar questions. This problem is exacerbated by #1.
10 books/yr x 20 years = 200, not 2,000.

Setting up a goodreads account is simplicity itself. And since it's owned by Amazon, you can import all your books with a click. There's also a bookmarklet that "Adds book to Goodreads" from the Amazon page.

Once you get used to logging progress and marking completed books, you will really see the pages and books mount up.
The author seems to come to grips with the islanders' scorn, and apparently agrees that it was improper of him to retell this story.

...which he is retelling again in this article.

I'm a little confused about the true depths of his contrition.
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My first career was in sales. I sold cellular phones for about 6 years. My biggest mistake was thinking your job is a meritocracy. Ok, Ok. I know nothing is truly a meritocracy[[0]. I was a top performer and got passed up for a promotion several times. Naturally, this means my other mistake was not making friends with the people that can promote you.

0 - http://readwrite.com/2014/01/24/github-meritocracy-rug
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You are right, I was reacting to a pattern of argument, which is not the point that I should have been focused on. That creates more noise over more important issues.
What an awesome free course about selling eproducts I needed to share this one
I want to go further with this idea. What we need to do is understand why both nations are doing this. What reasons do they have? Why does it seem like a good idea? Are they the same reasons? Are they somehow fundamental? How much choice is there in how these behaviors are implemented? Are there alternatives with other tradeoffs that appeal to the underlying reasons and if so why was this solution chosen?

Sometimes this leads us, especially if we feel the urge to repeat standard bylines, to conclude that "The People's Party are just evil, and that's why they do it." But if the reason for doing it were merely evilness, then we might also conclude the US does it for evilness - something that isn't as much of a goto by-line.

I don't really fully understand why all major governments surveil, censor, propagandize and profile their (and other) citizens - but comparing history with 21st century challenges give us pretty good hints. First, it seems fairly natural for countries to exercise some forms of control of their populations, both to provide a common security and stability (something citizens for the most part benefit from) and to preserve its own institutions (something every government is compelled by).

Specifically in the 21st century it is common practice to utilize international propaganda to disrupt and destabilize opponent populations, foment revolutions by exporting dissent, and to misinform foreign citizens during diplomacy and geostrategy efforts. Indeed, both democracies and countries that mimic the machinations of democracies, need to gain of appear to gain public support for initiatives based on complicated, centralized or even secret initiatives do actually benefit countries as a whole. In many ways autocratic institutions need to control their people less than semi-democratic institutions since ultimately some king or body of diplomats make decisions without the input of citizens.

Digressing further it is doing this sort of analysis that can show why a state engages with the practices that it does. If there is a large desire to reform practices it is these end reasons that must be challenged if the behavior is to alter.
> Overstock’s free-thinking CEO, Patrick Byrne

"free thinking": business speak for "fucking nuts, but inexplicably keeps making money, just."

I believe there were recommendations that Overstock shunt all the lunacy over to a spinoff company run by Byrne and get someone not insane to run the actually profitable business.
It's also rather bizarre that you have to go to a provider's app to get their content. All the content is siloed and walled off by each provider, so you have to remember whether a show is on HBO or Netflix or whatever. The old TV model of "channels" doesn't work with streaming.
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`unsafe` is a stateful property, not a local one. The specific invariant here is that you cannot rely on destructors for memory safety, which the old thread::scoped API was doing. The actual unsafe code is actually here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/libstd/thr...

(I myself have been guilty of this same error, of assuming that `unsafe` regardless of its position cannot have far-reaching effects on the overall state of your code.)

The important thing is this: using safe Rust, and using any safe stdlib API, memory unsafety is impossible. This includes stdlib APIs that use `unsafe` internally, such as `Rc`. Proving those interfaces safe is the burden of the Rust developers, and if you can show that there has been an error in these proofs then it is a drop-everything sky-is-falling defcon-1 situation that they must address, up to and including unreleasing the language if no suitable solution came to mind (fortunately, this is quite unlikely).
> In an adversarial judicial system, can a judge trust the prosecution to not tamper with digital evidence?

The judge doesn't have to trust the evidence, the judge just allows the prosecution to present it, and allows the defense to present whatever they have to rebut it, including challenges to its provenance, counterevidence, etc.
The original author now maintains "uBlock Origin" because of this funny business (see https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/).
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> Popcorn Time is at its heart just a torrent client using streamed torrent download to pipe the result into a media player.

> You can just feed a torrent file or a magnet link into Popcorn Time and it will play.

This is what I intended to mean by 'the same thing'. Can you expound on technical reasons why it is different in such a way that advertising is not possible or is not likely?
Radiation follows the inverse square law, while you're cellphone does not produce EM radiation which comes even close to natural high energy radiation sources you don't really put pulsars to your ear.

Additionally "natural" radiation is something you've evolved to coexist with. Take for example Uranium vs Plutonium, both are alpha emitters and they emit particles at nearly the same energy levels however that tiny energy difference results in very big difference in their effects on living tissue. The difference however cannot be explained by the power level difference alone, as both higher level alpha particles from natural sources as well as lower level alpha emissions from artificial sources showed a lower and higher amount of damage to nuclear material and cellular tissue general respectively.

And yes I am very well aware that alpha radiation isn't part of the EM spectrum as it's electron free helium nucleus, however it just shows that life evolved to be resilient to environmental sources of radiation be it high level particles like the nuclear decay of natural (existing since the 1st self replicating proteins occurred or even earlier if those had a replicating precursor) or high energy protons form the sun, or terrestrial and extra terrestrial sources of EM radiation.
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Obviously there exist people who believe that the things they say in this app, which claims to provide "anonymous" communication in a country with a history of repression of free speech, aren't tracable back to themselves. We've established here that this isn't true.

It's fine if you think this is an unreasonable conclusion to draw based on the evidence; you're entitled to your opinion. But the question is, do you feel comfortable with the possibility of people going to jail or dying because they didn't understand the security tradeoffs that this app makes? I think it's because some of us see this as an extremely real possibility -- particularly given the frankly ineffective security practices described here -- that you're seeing so much backlash.
Allow me to add the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rekursiv

Another weird attempt of the early 80s. Similar fate. Very surprising company though.
> Specifically in the 21st century it is common practice to utilize international propaganda to disrupt and destabilize opponent populations, foment revolutions by exporting dissent, and to misinform foreign citizens during diplomacy and geostrategy efforts.

This was all common in the 20th Century, particularly the latter half, as well.
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This is an interesting counterpoint to an article/thread from earlier today:

"Why Cell Phones Can’t Cause Cancer, But Bananas Can"

http://mitchkirby.com/2015/04/22/why-cell-phones-cant-cause-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9446505