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I didn't say that you should avoid helping people in need.
My guess is that for each person some small thing will make sense, which is sufficient to drive the costs down and the technology forward.

For example, good sleep is really important to me. So I used the Philips Hue bulbs and a NUC to build a smart home lighting system that behaves much more like daylight. When I describe it to people, quite a number really want it. Not bad enough to get my code off GitHub and install it, but they'd pay something extra for it. And I now see pre-packaged commercial products getting proposed, so I'm sure they'll have options.

The interesting thing happens when that cycle drives the costs a fair bit lower. Look at phones, for example. Smartphones were a weird, exotic thing. Then they were a high-end consumer thing. Now they're the default. A couple years back I went into a store looking for a cheap phone and asked for one without a web browser. The clerk looked puzzled and said, "Well, they all come with web access." I'm sure I could have ordered a dumbphone somehow, but it would have been harder and cost more.

So my question is: how much extra will you pay for your house not to be connected? Because that's the real test for me about where the IoT thing will end up.
Ugh, React people... Please stop saying "Reason about". Did you ever use that phrase even once in your life before you started using React? Just say that the code is more understandable or whatever.
Because TLDs are archaic.

So I just type Google into the bar at the top and there I am! For the average man that is.
> Because now they can spy on millions

I didn't see that part of the article, can you link me to some resources for the planes having that level of camera and computer vision technology?
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> Will Putin come to his aid?

Putin already tried to do so [0] by painting the corruption investigation as unjust US persecution.

[0] Well, more likely tried to pre-empt any effect the investigation of FIFA corruption would have on Russia's 2018 World Cup, but it amounts to the same thing in effect.
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Sure, but as I understand it, he doesn't/didn't need to actually try it on github's servers. If he put the public keys in question into the authorized_keys list of a second account on his personal system, he can locally verify that the brute forced private key is correct. I think the wording agrees with this:

> <snip> and then a few more minutes to transform those back into a SSH key that I could log into systems with.
> South Koreas's land size is MUCH smaller (smaller than most US states). Although there is something to be said about why any single US state isn't as good at infrastructure as South Korea (probably California can be the only candidate), that is a different interesting discussion.

We also don't have cities with better internet infrastructure. NYC and SF both come to mind.

Basically, the appeal to density fails to account for the gap in any meaningful way.
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How do you reconcile [1] with the use of Stingray-like technology from outside the home (whether in the air or not)? Stingrays are not commonly available to the public, so no "shmuck" can go up there and do this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States
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Which is a report on the report in which animals were harmed. Let us remember them as martyrs to science and the knowledge required to preserve many more intelligent lives in the future.
It's much more compact than existing 'Joule Thief' designs - https://google.com/search?q=joule-thief - it probably extends the lifetime of a battery by 2-3 times.
Everyone wants more money. That is the nature of capitalism. They should be applauded for rationally looking out for their self interests. Just as Markus and crew should be applauded for their ability to retain staff without having to share equity. As long as people are safe, aren't being abused, aren't starving and have a home to go to in the night I say let the game go on.
What is ISE? Some cursory googling makes it out to be some kind of Cisco router thing.
I moved away in 1999 to the Mac, and because of the incredible expensive Macs nowadays, I'm probably going to make another move, to Ubuntu.

Still, Steve Jobs was not an easy guy either. I don't know if he would mock an employee for having an Android phone? Not unlikely given how anti-Android he was.
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Be careful. The notion that opinions we don't like are generated by organized trolling campaigns is toxic, and insidiously serves the objectives of the trolls.

If you feel like comments on a thread are coming from an organized trolling/shilling campaign, try to collect some evidence for it and then notify hn@ycombinator.com --- that's what they've asked you to do.

But don't start a conversation on the thread itself about how specific commenters, or even a particular style of comment, are being made in bad faith. It's the easiest criticism in the world for a troll to deflect: just start an argument that you're commenting in good faith and being persecuted for unpopular opinions. 100 comments later, the thread will seem to casual readers like nothing but litigation over who the commenters are. Mission accomplished.
Video/Cell surveillance with a Judges order by the FBI (a NON-FISA Judge - the FISA ones are Rubber Stamps) is how the process is supposed to work.

The article raises two deeply troubling points:

1) That they operate without specific Judges orders - this means that they are pretty much Dragnets sweeping up vast swathes of information indiscriminately.

2) They are used to help in "disturbances" (by presumably recording Video & Cell info?). So even civil disobedience is prime target for these flights.

The combination points to a major overreach by the Feds. The temptation to use all that info in one way or another (Parallel Construction for e.g.) is too great.
Needs ACLU & possibly EFF to sue & the courts to shutdown this crap.
Well Visa and MC have problems with pr0n too... Hence the existence of fringe CCBill / Epoch etc.

Visa and MC don't mind so much if some other party is taking the risk.
Perhaps include an apology and treatise on historical sexism? Maybe go hunting for a handful of papers by women from that era, and include them in the interests of inclusion?

The former would be irrelevant at best, and the latter is usually called tokenism, but both are options. If that's actually the goal. Personally, I suspect neither is helpful.
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Thank you USA.
I'm in the same boat, rarely re-sizing windows, and I'd do the same thing, but I use Tmux and terminal Vim and using the mouse there just doesn't work in my terminal emulator. (I use st[0] on Linux. It probably would work in iTerm on Mac, but I haven't tried.) It also may not work due to Tmux being configured with mouse support.

[0] http://st.suckless.org/
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Been using it at work for the past few weeks. Really do enjoy it. Does include support for X11Forwarding, VNC, SFTP, etc.
I suspect he was at least complicit. One other side of the story is this: Why does the US care? The answer is that if getting the World Cup essentially requires bribes then that makes it impossible for the US to compete, because bribery is prosecuted in the US. So this is less about justice than economic benefit.

It's FIFA regime change.
It's not necessarily better. But now you have two layers of security (VPN + SSH), rather than just one.

And as others have mentioned, either way it's still good practice to disable password auth, so that you can only connect to SSH using a public/private keypair.
If VPN is broken, you still need to break SSH
We should call them what they are: Sock Puppets.

Calling them trolls is an insult to trolls.
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The surprising thing was how easy it was to do this. Really, all you had to do was look: These planes seem to literally use (unencrypted, easily decoded) transponder codes that mean "FBI surveillance", the public records show company names that mostly fit a simple regex, and one of the front companies even has the exact same address as the U.S. Dept of Justice.
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I you haven't read to the end of the story, I highly recommend finishing it; it has a pretty great ending.

Also! The article outs a couple of US-facing troll operations, one of which, "Spread Your Wings", is an unintentionally hilarious satire of US partisan politics, and another highly recommended read if you're up enough on politics to be in on the joke:

https://www.facebook.com/actoftruth?fref=photo

(My current favorite Spread Your Wings propaganda: GOP Senator and Presidential hopeful Lindsey Graham: warmonger and Adversary Of The 2nd Amendment.)

(Moments later: NO WAIT, this inspirational uplifting quote clearly wins the Internet today: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4r7r7nvbpn2kp3h/Screenshot%202015-...)
I make exceptions for really clever ones, but I think these low-effort comments fail the substance test[1]. If you encourage this stuff you'll start to see karma trains like the other commenter tried to start, and it won't be long before you have to scroll past the puns and maymays in order to read anything of substance like you do on Reddit (save for some subreddits that are aggressively moderated for serious replies).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
> So he was a 10x analyst and maybe would have gotten 25% to 50% more pay than colleagues -- not worth it.

They guy died when he has barely old enough to (legally) drink a beer. I'd say it was pretty irrelevant if he was making 10% or 1,000% more than his colleagues.

The problem is that the system does not know when to stop. If you exceed expectations, expectations raise until you cannot exceed them anymore. If you have a good boss, he/she will shield you from the worst of it, but eventually you need to learn how to say "No, I am afraid I cannot".
Exactly because of this I think Fred Wilson is spot on in saying expensive things will stay dumb and the smarts will be in the cheaper replaceable gadgets[1]. Cars have already done that with audio (bluetooth works reasonably well). Hopefully one of the video casting solutions will solve video as well so we can stop mounting smartphones on the dash and just cast the images into the car's screen.

[1] http://avc.com/2011/12/cheap-willl-be-smart-expensive-will-b...
Indeed there are. Many businesses are committing crimes without even realizing it, especially things like structuring. These crimes are often selectively enforced.
Wouldn't that make performance a lot worse, for both CPU and disks? Offloading the job to something closer to the flash chips and fully dedicated to servicing them sounds like a better (and the current) path. Same for high speed network links.
Come back to us when you've found a way to implement the good stuff that Windows has, such as IOCPs: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...

And no, epoll isn't enough.
Doesn't it sound scarier if the government doesn't hold a monopoly on it? At least the government is [supposed to be] held to some standard of use. I think that type of technology and data being available to the general public at large is frightening.
Stopping tax payments isn't the only way to protest.
> your only argument is that someone is being paid, then maybe they're doing you a favor by challenging your belief. Disinformation only works if you're too lazy to research the reality.

On the contrary, an astroturfer might fail to persuade but still chalk their effort up as a success if they manage to derail a conversation. A bunch of people walking away from a stupid conversation failing to reach any conclusions is a win for something like, for example, Putin's govenrment.
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> Whenever a story appears to be such clear cut black and white with one evil villain

Whoever said there was one evil villain? Note that while Blatter may be implicated in the corruption investigation, one of the specific schemes already charged was an attempt to use bribes to motivate people to vote for Blatter's opponent in a previous FIFA election.

This doesn't look as much like a hierarchical conspiracy with one bad actor at the top, as a whole nest of -- sometimes cooperating, sometimes competing -- bad actors.
I sort of agree, but it just seems technology is going that way one way or the other. How could it be stopped?

When/if that sort of tech happens culture would be very different to say the least.
It doesn't really matter that much if it's dumb or smart. You can use a Chromecast with either, and refusing to buy one kind limits your choices.
They we're recently purchased by micron -the huge memory company.
I'm genuinely sorry you feel that way. What I offered was a first-hand experience of my family, not my government or some political garbage. Yet you chose to turn this into a discussion about our broken government and individuals within it.

If this at all helps, I've lived in US for over 10 years now. I am a citizen, I finished college here, got married and started my career. I'm never going back because I don't like the turmoil but nothing can invalidate my initial comment and the truth behind it.
If i recall correctly, that's because the basic signaling for USB charging is resistance based. Too high a resistance on the wire, and it may heat up (even melt the plastic wrapping) if they try to draw more than the default 500mA USB amount.
On an issue-by-issue basis.

In this case I'd want the regulations to apply to Google, Apple, Mozilla, and MS web browsers (only) and force those browsers to display a boilerplate notice about cookies when they're detected... rather than putting the burden on the much larger set of end websites and API providers.

In general there's not a permanent way to reconcile consumer rights with business rights. One thing that would help a lot is to restrict/ban money in politics so that at least each side of the debate has a more equal voice. Although in this case the side without money won.

Personally I guess my outlook is that of a moderate... or maybe a left-leaning libertarian.
For all Balmer's thing of dancing on a stage and chanting "developers", there was no point under Gates or he at which Microsoft felt like a pro-developer company.

That has completely changed in the last eighteen months. Each time I think "wouldn't it be cool if" I'm finding a few weeks later that someone at Microsoft is well ahead of me. How much easier it will be to ship my sucky roguelikes to Windows users in this new world!

Hmm. They can now have a path to obsolete cmd. As long as they ship a decent ssh client with the system, users will become accustomed to ssh-ing to their own box instead of using cmd.

Wishlist: tmux, emacs, vi, netcat, shell option for vi-mode, rc-file with preferences, ncurses library, something simpler than curses, zip and unzip. 256 colour is fine, although 24-bit would be impressive. /proc would be cool, but also a big ask I assume. They already have a strong compiler. Make it really easy to find the hex fingerprint required to log on to the sshd-server. Something like inetd could be useful, too.
The new flash DIMMs (which thus bypass PCIe bridges and ATA layer, since they plug directly into the memory controller) are really interesting. Not a commodity yet, but seems like a case where simpler -> better -> cheaper.
Can you provide a source?

[edit] I've seen the claim made more than once in this thread without a source. I understand that the article was probably very wrong. I'm just interested to know if a reputable publication has confirmed this or if it's just conjecture.
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I'm sure we are both speaking of US v. Barker. And your distinction is well taken, i.e. interpretation of law vs enforcement of law. That said based on Holder's statements I think the argument extends to existing case law of mistake of law. A hypothetical Defendant could certainly argue there was reasonable reliance on the misinterpretation of the law. Moreover, argue that Holder's statements were not simply limited to issue of enforcement, but more generally applicability to persons in compliance with State Medical Marijuana laws. Certainly, the Gov. could not simply trick people into committing crimes by saying we will not enforce "x",then begin mass arrests and later at trial argue the defense of mistake of law does not exist because the Gov's official statement was limited to enforcement not interpretation. Again your distinction is correct, and may be pushes this to a case of first impression.
While I agree that a native terminal/ssh client is the best solution, putty is very much maintained still: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/changes.ht... last change was in February of 2015
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> Be careful. The notion that opinions we don't like are generated by organized trolling campaigns is toxic, and insidiously serves the objectives of the trolls.

Yep. See also: Sue Basko and the Rustle League. The more she claimed they were a FBI/CIA Psyop, the more they laughed and poked at her.
I'd agree here, and only add that if, in fact, he had accomplished manipulating command and control packets on a live plane, I doubt the FBI would have let him walk with a stern talking to and the loss of his personal computer effects.
Great idea, and great model of using UGC for the site.
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This got me; often you want clock_timestamp() or timeofday().

I wrote about it, too - http://imperialwicket.com/postgresql-getting-now-in-function...
Also, did you know that Ctrl-w | maximizes the a window horizontally? So if you have splits open above and beside you ctlr-w _ ctrl-w | will maximize your current split.

immediately maps this to ctrl-w m
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He said he was "out of luck completely". He's not.
That is a nice theory, except for the fact that firmware bugs have hit big players equally badly, if not even worse. Intel and Samsung come easily to mind, and Sandforce was notorious for not getting their own firmware to work (for their own controllers).
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The initial descriptions sound more like someone pointed a testing tool at the wrong environment, rather than a hack.
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