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Obstruction of justice might be punished less harshly than whatever the data they were encrypting implicates them in.

Generally the best legal strategy is to not do anything illegal, but sometimes that window has already closed ;)
What would be a preferred nomenclature? "Self-induced inconsistency with observed reality", perhaps.

The delusion is not the goal. The delusion is the notion that violence will achieve the goal because said violence is emotionally satisfying.
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I'm not sure what the benefit of encryption there is anyway. Governments have a very effective way of decrypting stuff like this: getting a court order to hold employees in prison until the data are decrypted.

Maybe they have no actual non-contractor employees in Québec? I'd be pretty pissed off if I was sitting in a Québec jail because someone in SF decided that during a raid was the appropriate time to implement encryption on my devices.
Is there any particular reason you chose pedophiles as the architypical information criminal?
Even if it were true it doesn't differ in meaning at all from what I said. I put the caveat it was a very simplistic explication - there is shared sovereignty which is defined in the US Constitution, that's the important part.

If we want to be annoying pedantic the US fought against Great Britain for independence, the UK didn't even exist then.
Only pedophiles encrypt data?
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StartSSL : Free but takes a lot of time(monthly domain verification and all )

GlobalSign : if you want this SSL for a opensource project you can get it for free

SSLtrust : Comodo Positive SSL for $4.95

As for the difference between cheapssl certifications and $200 is their guarantee and browser trust.
Extended Validated certificate has more browser trust than a positive ssl certificate.
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>Investigators are looking for evidence to demonstrate Uber Canada is violating the tax law by not collecting GST and QST on behalf of its drivers to UberX.

For those who don't want to google translate. Further down it says that this is one of those things Uber doesn't think it has to do because it's an app, not an employer. Quebec seems to disagree and be willing to follow up.
/cuteboys/ in particular is a board for effeminate gay
men, that does not allow underaged posters or pictures thereof. Just goes to show how zodiakzz hasn't bothered to actually visit or understand the site he's crusading against.
Uber is constantly trying to run from the law but eventually the law will catch up with them and finish this farce. Good.
In a world where encryption is sexy...
"You haven't advertised a lack of privilege, therefore you must be overprivileged and wrong" is not the soundest of possible lines of reasoning. I will not debate the subject further. Nevermind the slight catch that privilege is not a binary thing.

I understand rage. I understand feeling helpless. I know those feelings. I have felt those feelings. I could go on and on and on, making all the declarations of sympathy and empathy and understanding you could possibly wish for here.

Yet, at no point did I come to believe that random destruction of property would get me what I wanted to relieve that all-consuming rage. Doubly so when evidence on the subject shows clearly that riots don't work. Whether or not I have felt a particular flavor of rage is immaterial to the question of whether or not riots are an efficacious means of producing social change. The former is a question of unknowable perceptions, while the latter is a question verifiable against reality to the extent that reality is objective.

Might I ask you to consider the basic question of "Do riots work?" Or the related basic question of if desperately wanting something to be true makes it so?
Dude, that's exactly what you're doing here. But your anger towards the author is a lot more mysterious than the author's anger towards her dead husband. If you're wondering why someone would write an angry comment on the internet that you think reflects badly on her, look inward.
Are we sure that the government agency really understood what happened here? It may be that a single laptop was doing a file vault update or something, and they jumped all over the place.
You could, but it is a bit pointless. The idea is that mathematically a superposition of analog waves looks the same as the superposition of quantum states, so you can get exactly the same behaviour using the natural laws of physics. A digital system that modelled the waves would require an absurd amount of resolution since the interference effects need to be modelled accurately. In essence you are throwing away most of your information capacity by switching to digital on/off signals from superimposed waves even though you are using the same wires. The reason quantum computing is interesting in the first place is to use all that wasted information to produce a Massive gain in computing power in a much smaller system.
I run on the assumption that people who loudly and publicly declare that they seek a particular goal are interested in what will actually advance that goal.

If that isn't a valid assumption - and I suppose it's possible, but I would like to think not - then there's a very different conversation to be had.
Good times. Conectiva 6.1 was my first contact with Linux, after a workshop in UFMG. I was a kid back then and got completely hooked by that "grown up thing".

Then I spent too many sleepless nights trying to patch the Kernel to work in my cheap PC and its PC Chips motherboard with an integrated WinModem.

And that headache got me every single job I ever had after that =D
Probably to outrage people and incite trolling.

Encryption may or may not protect you against law enforcement, but that's not the only use case: it also protects you from employees who forget their laptop at Starbucks, disgruntled system administrators, and so on. Law enforcement may be able to compel you to decrypt the systems, but laptop thieves cannot.
[ephe] clothed teens are legal under US law- but only if they do not fail the DOST test.

[nmmodels] young models and jailbait are legal under US law. blame the parents putting their kids into young beauty pageants, not pedophiles. write your representative to make them illegal.

cuteboys is a board for transgirls, gay guys, and crossdressers, along with others that don't fit the binary. you're not some homophobe / transphobe, are you? these people are consenting adults.

if you seriously think child porn could exist in the open on the Internet in 2015, you are delusional. the FBI regularly arrests people, and takes down people for hosting CP.

your argument literally only is supported by feels, not reals. everything that you have linked is legal under US law.
> Microsoft has a lot of PL expertise in house, including Simon Peyton Jones. Their languages clearly benefit from expertise in PL theory. Google, on the other hand, favors pragmatism over theory and prefers to draw on software engineering experience.

Google has ALOT of PL expertise in house, so much so that a lot of them don't work on PL. There language design is actually quite competitive to Microsoft's, on the theory, design, and implementation sides. Whenever we go to conferences, you'll usually have similar numbers of current and ex-academics from MS and Google.
I wonder what would happen if Google or Yahoo! acquired them.
Get your popcorn ready, Canada's going to set Uber on fire.

According to the article (and what I can make of it via Google Translate) this is for tax reasons, because Canada considers Uber Canada an employer and it must collect tax.

I honestly don't understand why they would bother doing this what with an almost certain Obstruction of Justice charge and the fact that it's pretty obvious that money goes from people to workers via Uber.
> I don't think that most researchers would view writing a review article for Nature as "volunteer work"

I was referring more specifically to the fact that Nature had to enlist volunteers to referee the paper he wrote.

I was curious whether he was okay with that even though he wouldn't volunteer himself, if his position on non-open journals had changed, or if there was some other explanation.
Wow, no FDE on laptops, etc.? I'm glad Uber just hired Joe Sullivan as CISO; seems like best practice for any reasonable company these days.
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I'd expect a court to treat that sort of attempt at getting around the order via technicality about as well as they treat the Sovereign Citizen folks. I'd also expect NSLs at this point to include language on warrant canaries.
Seeing as zodiakzz seems to be completely against free speech I wouldn't be surprised if he/she equates homosexuality with pedophilia. It seems to always be the people who crusade against pedofiles who end up being the child abusers.

(see how easy it is to make unfounded assumptions about people?)
First I'd consider it from the angle of legislator intent, instead of attributing compulsion to an abstract concept (law). The question is then much closer to reality: "Am I behaving in a way that pleases the legislators?" That is a very difficult question to answer, and the solution was to codify the wants of the legislators into laws :) Unsurprisingly the process of translating the desires from the minds of men (and a few women) onto paper does not completely eliminate logical defects that pretty much everybody hosts. So you end up with contradictory laws, our solution was to add another layer of human reasoning onto that - the judicial system. Anyway, playing the game of finding loopholes and ignoring the 'spirit of the law' is the only reasonable course of action. The alternative, restricting your behavior to what you think the legislators would approve of - well, that would be an incredibly terrible existence...

It would be an interesting project to translate our system of laws into Attempto Controlled English [0], while feeding the results into a logical reasoner. I don't think it would be long before you find serious flaws where the logic does not follow.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempto_Controlled_English
Hey, is there any way I could automate this kind of fix? It'd be awesome for web scraping.
The point of that bit is that it's not only possible, but borderline-trivial, for a malicious application (e.g. spambot, DDoSbot, etc.) to hook into the API and flood a target using Hola users as endpoints; the article states that such an incident has already happened, and that 24-hour captchas have been instituted for all users as a result in an attempt to stifle future such attacks on 8chan.
Hacker News is an English-language site. We don't in the least disparage other languages, but a submission like this is off topic here.
Sure, except for the poor soul that was looking for some anonymity, and now has the FBI knocking on her door with a mandate, because a shady service that didn't disclose what it was doing to your connection.

Decoupling IP from people won't happen anytime soon. It's better for law enforcement to just go, seize everything, and deal with the false positives later.

See the long list of "suggestions" for people interested in running their own tor exit node [1]. This is not something you should even think about doing from your personal home, mixed with your own traffic. It's asking for trouble.

[1] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tips-running-exit-node-mini...
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It is funny to see how 30+ different governments are now up in arms against something that is essentially just a set of computers running on the internet, i.e. the Uber platform.

I wonder how many copycats will spring up in the future, and become Uber2, Uber3,and so on?

In Canada, Uber obviously made a serious mistake. They should not be physically present anywhere. Their strategy does not work, if governments can physically attack them. They are themselves missing the point about themselves.

I see governments everywhere seething and claiming that they want to shut down AirBnb, but where to do that? AirBnb does not have offices or staff over there, and therefore make it impossible for these governments to engage in their core business, that is, to use violence in order to impose their stupidity onto others.
I don't know anything about the formal structure of working as an Uber driver, but could Uber make the argument that their drivers work for the passengers and that Uber merely facilitates the connecting of drivers to passengers?
Yeah, we're pretty sure... if you read the article, you might be, too: multiple laptops and cell phones were remotely rebooted via the remote management facility at the same time (10:40), leaving them in an encrypted and unlockable state.

Commenters seem to think their servers were being remotely encrypted as well, but I didn't see any info to that effect.
Sure thing, I snapped a shot of the error window when it popped up: http://imgur.com/y5tQbTn

I was connected to the US East server at the time.
There must be an administration team that's anonymous and hidden, both publicly and to each other. Obviously, there must be a setup for sharing and managing trust. The team sees all organizational email, and they handle the warrant canary collectively.
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> having a centralized log as the defining store for updates/ change events is sometimes called: eventsourcing

To clarify slightly: Event Sourcing isn't just emitting events for others, it means that your system is re-reading its own log to derive current state from past-events.

For performance reasons you try to avoid this with stuff like periodic "snapshots", but the capability of has to be there.
Why not just let the market sort it out?

Because software development will never become software engineering if we continually do the equivalent of changing the number and measure system every five years.
I'm sure you could insert any of the big software companies
So far as I can tell, there is no way to tell if an IP has the Hola VPN software installed or not: no tell tale open port, no special header from Luminati, and no specific range.

Then, immediately in the next paragraph:

An attacker used the Luminati network to send thousands of legitimate-looking POST requests to 8chan's post.php in 30 seconds, representing a 100x spike over peak traffic and crashing PHP-FPM.

How was that conclusion arrived at? Am I missing something here?
I think it's a perfect place for it. Rather than kicking it into the shadows, in private sessions where you only hear these things if you specifically get off your arse and go there, instead you encourage wider discussion, and show other people who won't or can't go to those options that they're not the only ones having these issues.

Alcoholism and the destruction of lives is a depressingly normal story. It's hardly 'dirty laundry' (another term of shaming) in the context provided - the author wasn't point-scoring off her dead husband, and you weren't forced to read the article. Relationships have ugly sides, and by exposing that, we help people better understand their own.

Also, it's an opinion piece, in a section called The Opinion Pages with the section title Opinionator, and even the domain has 'opinion' in it. An opinion journal would be pretty dull if it steered away from social taboos. People read opinion pieces to get different views on things (sometimes heatedly emotional), outside of the supposedly dispassionate journalistic norm.
I use NordVPN, which I have no complaints about. But occasionally I'll get a 1 week token from cryptostorm (https://cryptostorm.is/)

They have an interesting model: you buy a token that expires after a certain length of time (1 week, 1 month, 1 year, etc). The clock doesn't start ticking until the first time you log in. Instead of registering a username/password, you're sent the token via email and your login ends up being a sha512 hash of the token for the username. There is no password associated, just the hash of the token is all you need.

I like this because you're able to buy 'disposable' accounts basically. They take bitcoin and some alt coins too, which is nice. Dns protection and access to .onion and .bit domains. It all seems pretty solid. NordVPN tends to be a little bit faster for me, though it may depend on which servers you use.
I recently started using a Pebble (the classic model). I don't traditionally wear watches. The core functionality -- being notified of text messages and phone calls with enough information to make a decision on whether I want to respond immediately -- is pretty much all I care about, although I have actually found myself surprised by how much I like being able to glance at the time without pulling out my phone.

The Pebble doesn't even support things like reading emails, browsing the web, etc. and I wouldn't want to use such a feature. The battery life is good and it charges quickly -- mentally it's more in line with my Kindle than my phone as far as how much I think about its charge. If it runs out of batteries it isn't the end of the world anyway.

My goal in getting it was to spend less time fiddling with my phone and concentrating more on life around me, while still not missing situations where a friend or loved one needs to get in touch urgently. A secondary motivation was to miss fewer calls (I am somewhat hard of hearing & frequently keep my phone's ringer off anyway for professional reasons, and I do not always feel my phone vibrate through my jeans). The Pebble has been very successful in that regard and I consider the $99 well spent.

My hope is that even though Pebble is pursuing a somewhat higher-end market with the Pebble Time that they (or some other manufacturer) continue to produce a line of cheap, durable, minimalist smartwatches. I hope to be able to replace this one if it gets seriously damaged or becomes completely obsolete (if Bluetooth goes the way of the dodo, I guess). I have no interest in higher-end smartwatches.
Was this article just removed from the front page?
Paxos was published after the first randomized consensus algorithms, and Paxos has been shown to be a variation on those principles, so not sure the Paxos worship is all that warranted..

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From what I've seen, the government has generally avoided engaging with folks in the Sovereign Citizen camp. And with that in mind, I agree with you - they'll do the same thing with this. As long as 99% of people comply, why would you risk the loss of power by setting a legal precedent - even if you've got a 99.999% chance of winning a battle in court.
SCOTUS claims its power by purporting to stick to a set of rules. As such, they cannot simply make arbitrary decisions but must come up with some plausible justification.
They base these justifications on previous justifications, forming a DAG where each edge is constrained in unreasonableness, but paths clearly aren't (every entity desires more power for benevolence). Highlighting an important node of that structure is useful in illustrating one aspect of how we got from "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people" to the current behemoth.
You mean because the tools that we use in real engineering have remained the same for the last 100 years?
While I'm glad this is helping her to heal, I'm more interested in what could have been done.

Why in the world would someone suddenly start drinking at a level where it kills them? At age 45? This seems more like a mental health/depression spiral and the alcoholism was self-medication.

Especially since the word "professor" is being thrown around. If I remember correctly, there was some research that showed that men's hormones start going haywire when their partner goes into menopause. Combine this with the fact that a professor is always surrounded by young girls (professors have a higher divorce rate than average), and I have to wonder about a lot of things.

Ultimately, it's his own damn fault. But, mental illness has its own stigma.
It's much simpler though.

Multipaxos was designed with "okay, we have paxos, now let's extend it". Raft was designed with all of the requirements in it from the start.
The first two answers to this quora question are from authors of each framework and give very detailed responses, I encourage you to give it a read to gain technical insight on the differences, as it will help give perspective on why Angular is more popular: http://www.quora.com/Client-side-MVC/Is-Angular-js-or-Ember-...

My personal opinion on why Angular is more popular than Ember goes back to the root difference between the two frameworks: Ember's syntax is structured in a way that favors those coming from Cocoa or Ruby, while Angular is structured in a way more familiar to those with an existing background in HTML5. I also wouldn't discredit the proximity Google already has with web developers (analytics, webmaster tools, etc).
Well, that answers the question of "should I skip my meeting tonight?" I guess.
I understand your stance; perhaps at the very least she should have used a pseudonym to protect her husband's family and friends. With that being said, we are only being exposed to a portion of the story which she has decided to share in a certain way. There may be circumstances which she chose not to mention out of respect for her husband's legacy or her pride. What if her husband was not only verbally abusive but physically abusive? What if his friends or family blame her for his alcoholism or death? We don't know the full context driving her decision to publish this in NYT, so to immediately dismiss her move as inappropriate seems a bit callous.

Her story also might help other people watching loved ones deteriorate take action before it's too late, or may help people grieve following the death of a loved one under similar circumstances. This alone may be sufficient justification for her actions.
Some people don't have great options about where they work. I personally would not move close to downtown LA if I worked there. I'm more comfortable in a safe suburb, but the good jobs are in Santa Monica.

At one point, I drove about 80 minutes to my University and about 60 minutes back to work, which was by my home. If I got lucky and there was no traffic (rare), it was 45 minutes. You get used to it, but it's not something one should get used to.

Even now, I live 2 minutes from work. In traffic, it's 15 minutes. You can't avoid traffic in LA. There needs to be a better public option.
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3. Use the distro's default Apache connection limit of 20, despite the server being able to handle thousands of concurrent connections. The limited connections are then quickly used by users with slow connections.
"Ah, the user flooding himself (Bui) spilled the beans and told me how he did it voluntarily in IRC. Otherwise I'd have no clue." -Fredrick Brennan (8chan)
Thirded. I've lived around downtown LA for the past 5 years, at the Brewery and in the the same building as R23. It's been wild to see it change so fast. It's now one of the most walkable areas in the county. I feel lucky to have my rent locked in!

I'm not an LA native but I've grown to love it and hope to see more tech develop here.
From my reading, the author didn't connect these two issues. It's just that perspective, and time, lead her to realize that her husband's death wasn't her own fault, and also allowed her to feel anger at her husband for his actions.
Copypaste is rate limited, he had this to say:
https://twitter.com/HW_BEAT_THAT/status/603741442490642432

"The user flooding himself (Bui) spilled the beans and told me how he did it voluntarily in IRC. Otherwise I'd have no clue."
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