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billionaires to the barricades
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the full video of rupert's opening keynote at the luxury summit [1], informed by brynjolfsson's recent monograph, the second machine age [2], is epic and well worth a listen.[1]: <link>[2]: <link>
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correct me if i'm wrong: a revolution could not actually happen, right? the militarization of law enforcement and advanced weaponry of our government would prevent the people from rising up. i find this discouraging, because i do see this as a last resort if inequality continues at this rate.
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billionaires to the barricades
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correct me if i'm wrong: a revolution could not actually happen, right? the militarization of law enforcement and advanced weaponry of our government would prevent the people from rising up. i find this discouraging, because i do see this as a last resort if inequality continues at this rate.
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it seems in some ways that the solutions proposed by these anxious wealthy are limited or perhaps too simplistic. while i applaud their indulgence in supporting a $15 minimum wage, that doesn't mean much if commodity prices grow to erase those gains. it also puts further pressure on the remaining members of the "middle class" as they are the primary consumers of minimum-wage based services and will also be the ones to support the higher wages as costs are passed along to consumers.for decades our relatively equitable societies (minus racial inequalities and other gradually ebbing social issues) have been dismantled by these folks in the upper echelons of wealth and their willing conspirators in the upper-middle class and middle class in order to arrive at the situation we find ourselves in today.they have promoted favorable propaganda through their media organs that has poisoned the minds of the laboring classes towards collaboration, towards entrepreneurialism, and self-agency. they have defunded and neutered social institutions that worked contrary to their goals, even if innocuously like the attempts to destroy quality public education and labor protections.they have introduced a culture of consumption in place of production and individual industry to better capture a greater share of the productive gains furnished by technological and social advances. they have turned whole sectors of life into cut-throat for-profit industries such as health care and education.and the worst part is that they have been incredibly effective in convincing the average person that they have a better deal with a 1 in a million chance of striking it rich through individual luck than a more pragmatic chance at general comfort through social collaboration with their fellow humans. their propaganda has succeeded wildly in programming many people to distrust government or cooperation in favor of a nihilistic anti-humanist lifestyle of consumer consumption simply because it is more conducive to social control and easing their ability to maintain their positions in society.how then do they propose to put this genie back in the bottle, having now let it loose these past several decades?
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billionaires to the barricades
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it seems in some ways that the solutions proposed by these anxious wealthy are limited or perhaps too simplistic. while i applaud their indulgence in supporting a $15 minimum wage, that doesn't mean much if commodity prices grow to erase those gains. it also puts further pressure on the remaining members of the "middle class" as they are the primary consumers of minimum-wage based services and will also be the ones to support the higher wages as costs are passed along to consumers.for decades our relatively equitable societies (minus racial inequalities and other gradually ebbing social issues) have been dismantled by these folks in the upper echelons of wealth and their willing conspirators in the upper-middle class and middle class in order to arrive at the situation we find ourselves in today.they have promoted favorable propaganda through their media organs that has poisoned the minds of the laboring classes towards collaboration, towards entrepreneurialism, and self-agency. they have defunded and neutered social institutions that worked contrary to their goals, even if innocuously like the attempts to destroy quality public education and labor protections.they have introduced a culture of consumption in place of production and individual industry to better capture a greater share of the productive gains furnished by technological and social advances. they have turned whole sectors of life into cut-throat for-profit industries such as health care and education.and the worst part is that they have been incredibly effective in convincing the average person that they have a better deal with a 1 in a million chance of striking it rich through individual luck than a more pragmatic chance at general comfort through social collaboration with their fellow humans. their propaganda has succeeded wildly in programming many people to distrust government or cooperation in favor of a nihilistic anti-humanist lifestyle of consumer consumption simply because it is more conducive to social control and easing their ability to maintain their positions in society.how then do they propose to put this genie back in the bottle, having now let it loose these past several decades?
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>given the political groundswell for decreasing wealth disparity, mr. west added, “there’s a realization among the billionaire class that it’s actually in their own self-interest to at least spread some of the wealth around.”especially since all of their wealth comes from having figured out how to keep a larger portion of the product of labor than labor itself.
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billionaires to the barricades
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>given the political groundswell for decreasing wealth disparity, mr. west added, “there’s a realization among the billionaire class that it’s actually in their own self-interest to at least spread some of the wealth around.”especially since all of their wealth comes from having figured out how to keep a larger portion of the product of labor than labor itself.
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two concerns with how the socially concious wealthy might respond:1) there's a flavor of the paranoid stories that seem prominent in that community (where do they hear this?) and popular on the right wing in general. remember when tom perkins wrote a letter to the editor of the wall st journal saying that the wealthy are facing a "kristallnacht"? [1] the french revolution comparison and others like it reflects a similar mass paranoia, which is dangerous.2) it's essential to maintain democracy, i.e., that each citizen has an equal vote. as taxes and public funding have been driven down, recipients have turned more and more to the wealthy donors, with gives the donors the only vote. and as the wealthy few provide more of the funding, they have more arguments to drive taxes down further -- look at what we're doing with our wealth! the problem is, we live in a democracy; we decide by vote how we want our society to change and progress.for a simple example, a new park in nyc is being funded by a wealthy donor; is the land use, design etc. decided democratically by the citizens or by the donor? i read that state universities in ca are forming partnerships with corporations in lieu of lost state funding; can they risk offending those corporations? finally, the koch brothers funded some economics institute at a u. in florida (fl state?) and greatly influence the research, including the selection of faculty (iirc; my memory of the story is imprecise, but you get the idea).[1] <link>
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archivists are racing to digitise 300 years of newspapers before they crumble
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it's interesting that people are currently lamenting the fact that a huge chunk of human history will be lost because it's all digital now, while at the same time we are racing to digitize the past to prevent it from getting lost.it almost seems inevitable that most of the details of human history will be lost regardless....
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a major australian/nz newspaper company shipped all their photos to the us for digitization. the company ( rogers photo archive) doing the digitization then went bankrupt.<link> embarrassing the the nz branch since they got special permission from the government to ship the photos out of the country. some of the photos ended up on ebay.
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archivists are racing to digitise 300 years of newspapers before they crumble
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a major australian/nz newspaper company shipped all their photos to the us for digitization. the company ( rogers photo archive) doing the digitization then went bankrupt.<link> embarrassing the the nz branch since they got special permission from the government to ship the photos out of the country. some of the photos ended up on ebay.
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hm. yet to be proven that any digital storage will last anywhere close to that long. at best it will be a continually active process of refreshing the archive and converting the data to whatever storage media and formats are currently in use.
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archivists are racing to digitise 300 years of newspapers before they crumble
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hm. yet to be proven that any digital storage will last anywhere close to that long. at best it will be a continually active process of refreshing the archive and converting the data to whatever storage media and formats are currently in use.
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the idea of concentrating all these one-of-a-kind newspapers into one building is crazy. what if it burns down?> at such low oxygen levels, the contents simply can’t go up in flames.famous last words.> and with standards for the documentation, archiving and accessing of data – official and personal – still being thrashed out,i don't understand why this is a problem. scan them to pdf files, and put them on web pages. let google index them.
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archivists are racing to digitise 300 years of newspapers before they crumble
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the idea of concentrating all these one-of-a-kind newspapers into one building is crazy. what if it burns down?> at such low oxygen levels, the contents simply can’t go up in flames.famous last words.> and with standards for the documentation, archiving and accessing of data – official and personal – still being thrashed out,i don't understand why this is a problem. scan them to pdf files, and put them on web pages. let google index them.
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out of curiosity, there's a huge number of newspapers already archived on microfilm (unless it's been all thrown away). i'm sure digitizing from microfilm will be a reasonable alternative.
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mongolian shipwreck from 13th century invasion of japan discovered
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related <link>
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awful page to link to since it features (a) an auto-play video ad, (b) click-text hidden ads, and (c) a full-page auto-popup after x seconds. sheesh.try this instead:<link> about the 1st shipwreck found:<link>
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mongolian shipwreck from 13th century invasion of japan discovered
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awful page to link to since it features (a) an auto-play video ad, (b) click-text hidden ads, and (c) a full-page auto-popup after x seconds. sheesh.try this instead:<link> about the 1st shipwreck found:<link>
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one of japan's most unfortunate characters in the war, prince fumimaro konoe (konoye), tried in vain to get the military to avoid attacking america in the first place; he then tried to convince him to negotiate peace in early 1945, but the emperor refused, believing that japan would get divine assistance again.after the war, he refused to play along with the occupation's kangaroo court and killed himself.
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mongolian shipwreck from 13th century invasion of japan discovered
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one of japan's most unfortunate characters in the war, prince fumimaro konoe (konoye), tried in vain to get the military to avoid attacking america in the first place; he then tried to convince him to negotiate peace in early 1945, but the emperor refused, believing that japan would get divine assistance again.after the war, he refused to play along with the occupation's kangaroo court and killed himself.
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<link> cool stuff!
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mongolian shipwreck from 13th century invasion of japan discovered
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<link> cool stuff!
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i do not like history stories on hn. they invariably lead to me going on an hour long wikipedia safari.
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new horizons enters safe mode 10 days before pluto flyby
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"nasa’s new horizons mission is returning to normal science operations after a july 4 anomaly and remains on track for its july 14 flyby of pluto.the investigation into the anomaly that caused new horizons to enter “safe mode” on july 4 has concluded that no hardware or software fault occurred on the spacecraft. the underlying cause of the incident was a hard-to-detect timing flaw in the spacecraft command sequence that occurred during an operation to prepare for the close flyby. no similar operations are planned for the remainder of the pluto encounter."<link>
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that is a really well-written article. it explains the problem, explains what the remediation plans are, and puts a human face on it...while remaining positive and optimistic.looking forward to seeing what the problem turned out to be and how they solve it!
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new horizons enters safe mode 10 days before pluto flyby
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that is a really well-written article. it explains the problem, explains what the remediation plans are, and puts a human face on it...while remaining positive and optimistic.looking forward to seeing what the problem turned out to be and how they solve it!
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does anyone know how good of a quality the cameras are on new horizons?
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new horizons enters safe mode 10 days before pluto flyby
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does anyone know how good of a quality the cameras are on new horizons?
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alan stern, the mission's p.i., dispelled rumors that contact had been lost on the usf forum, saying "such rumors are untrue. the bird is communicating nominally."[0]also the deep space network[1] page shows an ongoing 1kbps downlink from new horizons; during the safe mode event it was at only 9bps. so that's a good sign! i'm sure they are still panicking a bit about what went wrong, but hopefully we're out of the woods on this particular anomaly.[0] <link>;...
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new horizons enters safe mode 10 days before pluto flyby
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alan stern, the mission's p.i., dispelled rumors that contact had been lost on the usf forum, saying "such rumors are untrue. the bird is communicating nominally."[0]also the deep space network[1] page shows an ongoing 1kbps downlink from new horizons; during the safe mode event it was at only 9bps. so that's a good sign! i'm sure they are still panicking a bit about what went wrong, but hopefully we're out of the woods on this particular anomaly.[0] <link>;...
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i wouldn't want to be the one debugging this. talk about pressure to deliver and difficult constraints!
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ask hn: how do i go about responsibly disclosing security vulnerabilities?
i'm dabbling in pen testing and recently discovered a major security hole in a service. the data exposed via this information is very sensitive information that amounts to me being able to track large groups of people's locations and movements. the company responded to my first round of testing positively. they've left a pretty glaring error unfixed though and i suspect a lot of it has to do with the fact that the changes required to fix it will break every version of their application available. i'm concerned because they have released three new versions of their app since i disclosed the vulnerability to them and all of them enable the data leak error i found. each day a few hundred data points get added to the system. phone numbers. names. location etc. i'm sending the second mail now. but i would like to push them by warning of a public disclosure that such an error exists (without disclosing how to exploit the bug).<p>it feels like threatening, and i'm not sure what the legal implications are. overall it feels unethical to be sitting with this knowledge and not disclosing it if the company doesn't get it done.<p>that said, i informed them only a week ago. which really puts me at crossroads. usually the time given is one month. but with the data being this critical, i don't know if one month is acceptable.<p>what should i do?
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first thing is you need to be aware that anyway you do go with this could end up with legal action against you from the company. this can happen even to people with the best intentions or who try to be responsible. just make sure you are aware and understand the risk.you've already talked to the company, so anonymously releasing the information is out of question, they could probably track it to you.do they not have any sort of policy on this? maybe try to talk to their team again but make sure you get it in writing and signed first that you're not going to be held liable, and just make sure you're safe. maybe even ask a tech-orientated lawyer first?my advice would to just try to be nice and open to the company, but stay firm that this is a major issue. maybe write up some documents with exactly how you found everything, what it could mean to their company if it got out, and what they could do to fix it.just really be aware of your safety/risk. if you try to help and they don't want to fix it, don't feel bad or unethical, you've done what you can.
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when i started reading this, i assumed this was going to be a typical "i've emailed them a dozen times over the course of two months, and nothing has changed!" story...in this case, you've sent them one email, and it sounds like they rolled out a partial fix in less than a week.why don't you wait and see how they respond to your second email?
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ask hn: how do i go about responsibly disclosing security vulnerabilities?
i'm dabbling in pen testing and recently discovered a major security hole in a service. the data exposed via this information is very sensitive information that amounts to me being able to track large groups of people's locations and movements. the company responded to my first round of testing positively. they've left a pretty glaring error unfixed though and i suspect a lot of it has to do with the fact that the changes required to fix it will break every version of their application available. i'm concerned because they have released three new versions of their app since i disclosed the vulnerability to them and all of them enable the data leak error i found. each day a few hundred data points get added to the system. phone numbers. names. location etc. i'm sending the second mail now. but i would like to push them by warning of a public disclosure that such an error exists (without disclosing how to exploit the bug).<p>it feels like threatening, and i'm not sure what the legal implications are. overall it feels unethical to be sitting with this knowledge and not disclosing it if the company doesn't get it done.<p>that said, i informed them only a week ago. which really puts me at crossroads. usually the time given is one month. but with the data being this critical, i don't know if one month is acceptable.<p>what should i do?
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when i started reading this, i assumed this was going to be a typical "i've emailed them a dozen times over the course of two months, and nothing has changed!" story...in this case, you've sent them one email, and it sounds like they rolled out a partial fix in less than a week.why don't you wait and see how they respond to your second email?
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tldr: talk to a lawyer.also: <link> depends on whether they already know who you are. if you've managed to remain completely anonymous, you can pressure them much easier since they can't retaliate with legal repercussions.if they know who you are especially, but generally as well, i recommend talking to a lawyer.edit: removed bit about phone/email. good point.vvvv
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ask hn: how do i go about responsibly disclosing security vulnerabilities?
i'm dabbling in pen testing and recently discovered a major security hole in a service. the data exposed via this information is very sensitive information that amounts to me being able to track large groups of people's locations and movements. the company responded to my first round of testing positively. they've left a pretty glaring error unfixed though and i suspect a lot of it has to do with the fact that the changes required to fix it will break every version of their application available. i'm concerned because they have released three new versions of their app since i disclosed the vulnerability to them and all of them enable the data leak error i found. each day a few hundred data points get added to the system. phone numbers. names. location etc. i'm sending the second mail now. but i would like to push them by warning of a public disclosure that such an error exists (without disclosing how to exploit the bug).<p>it feels like threatening, and i'm not sure what the legal implications are. overall it feels unethical to be sitting with this knowledge and not disclosing it if the company doesn't get it done.<p>that said, i informed them only a week ago. which really puts me at crossroads. usually the time given is one month. but with the data being this critical, i don't know if one month is acceptable.<p>what should i do?
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tldr: talk to a lawyer.also: <link> depends on whether they already know who you are. if you've managed to remain completely anonymous, you can pressure them much easier since they can't retaliate with legal repercussions.if they know who you are especially, but generally as well, i recommend talking to a lawyer.edit: removed bit about phone/email. good point.vvvv
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so i took everyone's advice and have done the following.1) i mailed the company again saying that they have not yet addressed the issue. and that the vulnerability is now critical given how much info they are adding per day. expressed that i would like to know if a patch is in the works.2) contacted several people in the it security and audit business and asked what the standard procedure was. the response from our cert was that for a vulnerability of this nature they need to respond with intention and details of fixing within 24 hours else i'm free to send one more email expressing intention to disclose vulnerability to public. disclosure of vulnerability will not include how to exploit, proof of concepts, or any personally identifiable information.3) if they say they need some time, and they say how much ( or i have to ask) i have to allow them that.4) if things get ugly, cert will take over upon my requestyey. thanks to all for the advice
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ask hn: how do i go about responsibly disclosing security vulnerabilities?
i'm dabbling in pen testing and recently discovered a major security hole in a service. the data exposed via this information is very sensitive information that amounts to me being able to track large groups of people's locations and movements. the company responded to my first round of testing positively. they've left a pretty glaring error unfixed though and i suspect a lot of it has to do with the fact that the changes required to fix it will break every version of their application available. i'm concerned because they have released three new versions of their app since i disclosed the vulnerability to them and all of them enable the data leak error i found. each day a few hundred data points get added to the system. phone numbers. names. location etc. i'm sending the second mail now. but i would like to push them by warning of a public disclosure that such an error exists (without disclosing how to exploit the bug).<p>it feels like threatening, and i'm not sure what the legal implications are. overall it feels unethical to be sitting with this knowledge and not disclosing it if the company doesn't get it done.<p>that said, i informed them only a week ago. which really puts me at crossroads. usually the time given is one month. but with the data being this critical, i don't know if one month is acceptable.<p>what should i do?
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so i took everyone's advice and have done the following.1) i mailed the company again saying that they have not yet addressed the issue. and that the vulnerability is now critical given how much info they are adding per day. expressed that i would like to know if a patch is in the works.2) contacted several people in the it security and audit business and asked what the standard procedure was. the response from our cert was that for a vulnerability of this nature they need to respond with intention and details of fixing within 24 hours else i'm free to send one more email expressing intention to disclose vulnerability to public. disclosure of vulnerability will not include how to exploit, proof of concepts, or any personally identifiable information.3) if they say they need some time, and they say how much ( or i have to ask) i have to allow them that.4) if things get ugly, cert will take over upon my requestyey. thanks to all for the advice
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the security researchers that i work with, and myself included, usually follow the rfpolicy:<link> responsible disclosure policy was first put together by rain.forest.puppy. (one of the first people to discover sql injection, and one of the founders of the osvdb.) we have had good results with it, and nearly all the people that we have disclosed vulnerabilities to have found it to be more than fair, and motivating. the researchers have found that it also gets results quickly.by default it requires you to disclose that you are following this policy, disclose the vulnerability, as directed in the document, then give them 5 days to respond. if you have done everything you could to contact them, and they will not respond, then disclose.however, as others here have been saying, it may take a while to fix this problem. if they do respond, they may want to "negotiate" more than 5 days to fix the issue. that's great. get some details, set up a reasonable timeline with them, and get a contact's information. then it's up to you to hold them accountable. sometimes this means disclosing on the agreed upon deadline, other times it means following up and seeing if more time should be given before disclosing.the main issue, as you point out, is keeping users/data safe. if the company is unwilling to work with you, not disclosing could put other people at risk, because you didn't stop unsuspecting users from signing up for the service. on the other hand, disclosing without working with the company can unnecessarily put the current users/data at risk.it's good to have a balance. the rfpolicy has helped me to have that balance when doing responsible disclosure. give it a look over. it's not too late to use the rfpolicy now.
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greeks reject bailout terms
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fairplay to them, the whole point of the eu project was to make us all "europeans" and to prevent constant disastrous fighting between states and people of the continent.sometime in the last 10 years many people and the media in the "core" countries got all smug and uppity towards those lazy "peripherals" and so on forgetting exactly why the project was started, overnight we stopped being "europeans" and became "undustrious germans", "smart and holier than thou nordics", "lying greeks", "lazy spanish" and in case of my own little peripheral island country "reckless irish".yeh :(
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at the risk of being a moralizing bore, may i remind everybody that "germany", "greece" etc. are not people, and that people are not countries? i am surprised by the national coloring, however faint, of some comments here and there <link> "i am a german" or "greek here" should have no relevance to the ideas put forth. "your money" and "your banks" are not really "my money" and "my banks" once i have paid the tax and don't own the bank!the theory of complex systems reminds us that aggregates can have properties that are not traceable to any individuals themselves. game theory tells us that incentives and constraints can get so messed up that developments take on an eigendynamic which was nobody's intent nor interest.please, be civilized and don't let yourselves be infected by nationalistic passions.your moralizing nanny...(no seriously, i am starting to get concerned.)
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greeks reject bailout terms
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at the risk of being a moralizing bore, may i remind everybody that "germany", "greece" etc. are not people, and that people are not countries? i am surprised by the national coloring, however faint, of some comments here and there <link> "i am a german" or "greek here" should have no relevance to the ideas put forth. "your money" and "your banks" are not really "my money" and "my banks" once i have paid the tax and don't own the bank!the theory of complex systems reminds us that aggregates can have properties that are not traceable to any individuals themselves. game theory tells us that incentives and constraints can get so messed up that developments take on an eigendynamic which was nobody's intent nor interest.please, be civilized and don't let yourselves be infected by nationalistic passions.your moralizing nanny...(no seriously, i am starting to get concerned.)
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the real problem is that banks lent to greece without doing their due diligence evaluating risk. instead the bankers collected their fat fees for making the loans. usually when banks make bad loans they have to write them off but when in 2010 the troika (euro community, imf, ecb) took over the greek debt they paid 100% instead of insisting on the banks taking a "haircut" of say 50%. in truth some of the smaller members of the imf did ask that they banks take a hit but the larger members turned that down.the problems with the greek economy that lenders are complaining about now, about the lowest tax collection rate in europe, the "overly generous" retirement plans all existed before banks made the loans and fixing these problems should have been made a condition of making the loans in the first place.it will be impossible for greece to pay off the debt and now instead of the bank management (and the shareholders who appointed them) taking the hit for their incompetence in making the loans the taxpayers will take the hit.the german and other taxpayers should not have a problem with greece, but rather that merkel and other governments decided to pay off the banks 100% instead of insisting that they take a large "haircut."ideally, the banks should have been made to take a "haircut" on the loans and the shareholders should have fired the management. instead merkel and other leaders let the banks off the hook putting the burden on the taxpayers. now the taxpayers should fire merkel and the leadership of other countries that ok'd the 100% payout to the banks in the next elections.
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greeks reject bailout terms
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the real problem is that banks lent to greece without doing their due diligence evaluating risk. instead the bankers collected their fat fees for making the loans. usually when banks make bad loans they have to write them off but when in 2010 the troika (euro community, imf, ecb) took over the greek debt they paid 100% instead of insisting on the banks taking a "haircut" of say 50%. in truth some of the smaller members of the imf did ask that they banks take a hit but the larger members turned that down.the problems with the greek economy that lenders are complaining about now, about the lowest tax collection rate in europe, the "overly generous" retirement plans all existed before banks made the loans and fixing these problems should have been made a condition of making the loans in the first place.it will be impossible for greece to pay off the debt and now instead of the bank management (and the shareholders who appointed them) taking the hit for their incompetence in making the loans the taxpayers will take the hit.the german and other taxpayers should not have a problem with greece, but rather that merkel and other governments decided to pay off the banks 100% instead of insisting that they take a large "haircut."ideally, the banks should have been made to take a "haircut" on the loans and the shareholders should have fired the management. instead merkel and other leaders let the banks off the hook putting the burden on the taxpayers. now the taxpayers should fire merkel and the leadership of other countries that ok'd the 100% payout to the banks in the next elections.
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i am astouned by all the comments, who say that "greeks were getting a shitty deal" or that the bailout terms were somewhat "unfair".facts are:
greece had a spending deficit for several decades now. this spending deficit accumulated to such a big dept, that no investors were willing to lend greece any more money.
18 european countries transferred billions of euros in the last couple of years to greece, to help the country and the people. in return they had an agreement that greece would cut their spending. greece never lived up to the agreements it made.
in the last weeks 18 european countries offered greece another bailout, where greece would receive several bilions again. in return they asked greece to finally cut spendings.now greece voted against this bailout. there are a lot of people in europe (myself included, i am from germany by the way) who are not willing to transfer further billions of euroes to greece, just so that a socialist party can fullfil its "promises" and increase their deficit.
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greeks reject bailout terms
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i am astouned by all the comments, who say that "greeks were getting a shitty deal" or that the bailout terms were somewhat "unfair".facts are:
greece had a spending deficit for several decades now. this spending deficit accumulated to such a big dept, that no investors were willing to lend greece any more money.
18 european countries transferred billions of euros in the last couple of years to greece, to help the country and the people. in return they had an agreement that greece would cut their spending. greece never lived up to the agreements it made.
in the last weeks 18 european countries offered greece another bailout, where greece would receive several bilions again. in return they asked greece to finally cut spendings.now greece voted against this bailout. there are a lot of people in europe (myself included, i am from germany by the way) who are not willing to transfer further billions of euroes to greece, just so that a socialist party can fullfil its "promises" and increase their deficit.
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what's most interesting to me in this entire crisis is the moral discourse surrounding debt. more often than not, you'll hear stuff like: "of course greece must pay its debt", "you mean to say you can just take money and not pay?", "why should taxpayers bail greece out?"...all the while, there is absolute zero condemnation for banking entities making risky loans. there is not even a tacit nod towards acknowledging that if banks make loans that fail, it is their loss to eat. not a whisper about how taxpayers have been surreptitiously bailing out banks, and not greece.somehow, a creditor is deemed morally superior to the debtor. what repulsive rhetoric!
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are you a greek company blocked by capital controls?
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what is actually being proposed here? is this a charity effort? a vulture capital fund that wants equity? something in between?
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i wonder how this is supposed to work, given that zerofund seems to be registered in the us (based off their whois records)
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are you a greek company blocked by capital controls?
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i wonder how this is supposed to work, given that zerofund seems to be registered in the us (based off their whois records)
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i would recommend to stay in contact with entrepreneurs from argentina. they are very experienced in how to deal with situation like this (no banking, capital controls, etc).
in particular, because the greek situation is still new, there are opportunities to do things well to protect your assets or to think strategically now: open a bank account in another country, just for backup purposes.
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are you a greek company blocked by capital controls?
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i would recommend to stay in contact with entrepreneurs from argentina. they are very experienced in how to deal with situation like this (no banking, capital controls, etc).
in particular, because the greek situation is still new, there are opportunities to do things well to protect your assets or to think strategically now: open a bank account in another country, just for backup purposes.
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it looks like they stuck a line about greek capital controls on top of a site for something else entirely. "will it blend? refine your idea, get feedback from users and iterate." "you need hosting/domains/ads? click here." that last is the only clickable thing on that page other than "social" links, and it leads to a google sign-in page.wtf?
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are you a greek company blocked by capital controls?
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it looks like they stuck a line about greek capital controls on top of a site for something else entirely. "will it blend? refine your idea, get feedback from users and iterate." "you need hosting/domains/ads? click here." that last is the only clickable thing on that page other than "social" links, and it leads to a google sign-in page.wtf?
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this hit the news here in greece a few days ago. it’s an initiative from greek start-ups in us that will act as a mediator to help pay costs like hosting and such since all greek credit cards are blocked for the time being. i assume these companies have subsidiaries in greece where they can receive the money in cash. it’s a solidarity gesture and probably not a permanent one.
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the economics of in-flight wi-fi
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from an earlier hn post, apparently when gogo invented their tech, basically every airline signed long term contracts at ridiculous rates. even if they want to compete, their locked into a cost structure using outdated technology.i bet in a couple years the contract cycle will churn and all of a sudden, we'll get a edge/3g level performance at reasonable prices.
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this is why jetblue won best customer service in 2014 and it doesn't seem like they really have serious competition; they actually make an attempt to make customers happy.i book jetblue every single time i can (even when it's more) because i can actually use wifi without spending more than my (already expensive) ticket cost, and i get more than a single miniature water bottle.
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the economics of in-flight wi-fi
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this is why jetblue won best customer service in 2014 and it doesn't seem like they really have serious competition; they actually make an attempt to make customers happy.i book jetblue every single time i can (even when it's more) because i can actually use wifi without spending more than my (already expensive) ticket cost, and i get more than a single miniature water bottle.
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gogo is quite aggressive about variable pricing. an all-day pass is $16 if you buy it ahead of time, but if you buy it on the plane it can cost up to $50. they also do split testing of their prices and discriminate based on the user agent.
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the economics of in-flight wi-fi
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gogo is quite aggressive about variable pricing. an all-day pass is $16 if you buy it ahead of time, but if you buy it on the plane it can cost up to $50. they also do split testing of their prices and discriminate based on the user agent.
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the economics of airplane wifi remind me of the economics of the hotels wifi. go to a 5-star hotel and you will pay 15 extra dollars for the priviledge of having a lousy internet access. go to a small hostel and you will get good internet access for free.
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the economics of in-flight wi-fi
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the economics of airplane wifi remind me of the economics of the hotels wifi. go to a 5-star hotel and you will pay 15 extra dollars for the priviledge of having a lousy internet access. go to a small hostel and you will get good internet access for free.
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does anyone really expect anything of airline flights anymore? at least those of us in commercial/economy class?years ago great customer service was defined as giving someone the can and some free peanuts. now it's touch screen "entertainment in-flight systems." not like any of those things have made the flying experience any better. so i just pick the cheapest flights available. sure, wi-fi is a plus, but the environment in economy isn't exactly ideal for work.i've primed myself to fall asleep as soon as i get into my seat before takeoff, regardless of time of flight.
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they do take security seriously
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this sure smells like misdirection!i've no pity for devs that end up getting ruined because they didn't know what to do. it's like going too fast on a freeway you don't normally take, getting pulled over and trying to explain that you didn't know. you knew better. ignorance is no excuse.ridicule is absolutely an effective response to companies who have put millions, literally millions of people in fiscal and possibly even physical danger. there's absolutely no room for error when it comes to safety for the users, and a tweet saying "oh yeah, well uh we take opsec real real serious" doesn't cut it.of course they take security seriously, i mean obviously. but the point of the article that this article is responding too is that it doesn't matter if apologize after something that could've been prevented, it's too late.
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no, troy hunt is right to call them out.> how can the security industry build deep relationships with clients when we publicly ridicule them when the inevitable happens?simple: call out the competitors of the clients you seek. there, now it's positive pr for your clients and security researchers aren't practicing self-censorship. win-win.
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they do take security seriously
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no, troy hunt is right to call them out.> how can the security industry build deep relationships with clients when we publicly ridicule them when the inevitable happens?simple: call out the competitors of the clients you seek. there, now it's positive pr for your clients and security researchers aren't practicing self-censorship. win-win.
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it takes zero effort to have your public relations department issue a press release claiming that your company "takes something seriously". that claim rings hollow when it comes right after you demonstrate the opposite. as i said in the other thread, these companies falling all over themselves to say how seriously they take security after they've been compromised are like companies gushing about how seriously they take quality--after issuing a major recall (or getting sued) over faulty parts. the proof is in the pudding.
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they do take security seriously
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it takes zero effort to have your public relations department issue a press release claiming that your company "takes something seriously". that claim rings hollow when it comes right after you demonstrate the opposite. as i said in the other thread, these companies falling all over themselves to say how seriously they take security after they've been compromised are like companies gushing about how seriously they take quality--after issuing a major recall (or getting sued) over faulty parts. the proof is in the pudding.
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> i think this article doesn't just blame the victims of those attacksthat's a grossly uncalled for rewriting of the reality involved.the victims are not the company whose servers are compromised. the victims are the customers of the company, whose data has been lost to the wilds.edit:> it is far more probable that all of the companies cited in the article have expended massive efforts to protect themselvesanother misunderstanding of reality. i've worked with and in quite a few companies of tiny and impressively large size, and in all instances so far security has been a non-topic, or at best a bullet point on a slide. in all cases so far has it been utterly trivial for literally anyone inside the company, and mildly trivial for people outside the company to create data loss scenarious of disasterous scale for many many customers.maybe he has worked exclusively with companies who have crack security teams and never even thought of using md5 to hash passwords. in my, and many other's, experience, such companies are as rare as unicorns though.
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they do take security seriously
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> i think this article doesn't just blame the victims of those attacksthat's a grossly uncalled for rewriting of the reality involved.the victims are not the company whose servers are compromised. the victims are the customers of the company, whose data has been lost to the wilds.edit:> it is far more probable that all of the companies cited in the article have expended massive efforts to protect themselvesanother misunderstanding of reality. i've worked with and in quite a few companies of tiny and impressively large size, and in all instances so far security has been a non-topic, or at best a bullet point on a slide. in all cases so far has it been utterly trivial for literally anyone inside the company, and mildly trivial for people outside the company to create data loss scenarious of disasterous scale for many many customers.maybe he has worked exclusively with companies who have crack security teams and never even thought of using md5 to hash passwords. in my, and many other's, experience, such companies are as rare as unicorns though.
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firstly, there's one thing all of the victims being ostracized have in common: they disclosed the details of the breach. that is exactly what they should have done; punishing them creates a perverse incentive for victims to hide breaches in the future, a decidedly worse end-user outcome.then how do users ask for anything better than the status quo?
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wow signal
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hmm. maybe someone can debunk this idea:could it have been some harmonic frequency of a terrestial lower frequency radio signal (such as 710mhz) that bounced off ionosphere?that frequency range is currently assigned to mobile, but i suppose it could have been in tv/broadcast use back then as it's right next to that spectrum.tv broadcast truck?
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> in 2012, on the 35th anniversary of the wow! signal, arecibo observatory beamed a response from humanity, containing 10,000 twitter messages, in the direction from which the signal originated.what.receive possible signal from intelligence in other star system. send back tweets.what.
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wow signal
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> in 2012, on the 35th anniversary of the wow! signal, arecibo observatory beamed a response from humanity, containing 10,000 twitter messages, in the direction from which the signal originated.what.receive possible signal from intelligence in other star system. send back tweets.what.
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also, it is problematic to propose that the 1420 mhz signal originated from earth since this is within the "protected spectrum": a bandwidth reserved for astronomical purposes in which terrestrial transmitters are forbidden to transmitreally? the fact that something is forbidden does not mean that it won't occur... i'd say classified research involving microwave satellites - maybe a transmitter was mistuned - is more plausible than ets.it also reminds me of this:<link>
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wow signal
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also, it is problematic to propose that the 1420 mhz signal originated from earth since this is within the "protected spectrum": a bandwidth reserved for astronomical purposes in which terrestrial transmitters are forbidden to transmitreally? the fact that something is forbidden does not mean that it won't occur... i'd say classified research involving microwave satellites - maybe a transmitter was mistuned - is more plausible than ets.it also reminds me of this:<link>
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going with extraterrestrial hypothesis, the source and non-repetition are what i find interesting. first, it's in an area that contains basically nothing. maybe they draw energy off of matter present near them or are highly efficient. another possibility is that it's an outpost used for communication, maybe to hide their homeworld. i have a friend who wrote a whole treatise on how hiding one's location would be essential to interstellar warfare or survival given how nukes, weaponized asteroids, etc can lay waste to whole planets worth of life. mass effect's reapers also used "dark space" for concealment between attacks.the other thing is non-repetition. if it was purposeful, it should've been repeated to ensure we'd catch it. maybe it was done as a one-off burst (eg like emp w/ structure) that would go all over the place. maybe it was a rebellious individual violating the radio-silence policy. maybe they do a periodic burst to each area figuring a civilization smart/wise enough will catch it and be watching for the next.who knows. these two things stand out to me, though.
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wow signal
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going with extraterrestrial hypothesis, the source and non-repetition are what i find interesting. first, it's in an area that contains basically nothing. maybe they draw energy off of matter present near them or are highly efficient. another possibility is that it's an outpost used for communication, maybe to hide their homeworld. i have a friend who wrote a whole treatise on how hiding one's location would be essential to interstellar warfare or survival given how nukes, weaponized asteroids, etc can lay waste to whole planets worth of life. mass effect's reapers also used "dark space" for concealment between attacks.the other thing is non-repetition. if it was purposeful, it should've been repeated to ensure we'd catch it. maybe it was done as a one-off burst (eg like emp w/ structure) that would go all over the place. maybe it was a rebellious individual violating the radio-silence policy. maybe they do a periodic burst to each area figuring a civilization smart/wise enough will catch it and be watching for the next.who knows. these two things stand out to me, though.
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so apparently in the 1997 paper on the 20-year legacy of the signal, ehman wrote that he resisted "drawing vast conclusions from half-vast data."that's a bit of a hidden signal too, i think.
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to save lives, sf will close market st. from 3rd-8th street to private vehicles
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i love that uber feels entitled to get the same deal as taxis. wow. like zero self awareness. pay for medallions, get regulated, and all the other business that come with being a taxi and maybe you too can use the taxi lanes. such bs.
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i've lived in sf for over 20 years.nobody actually wants to drive downtown, but public transit isn't good enough to reliably use it from large parts of the city.this is typical nanny state sf government.they ban things instead of coming up with better solutions.(yeah i don't think for a minute this will stop at market street.)
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to save lives, sf will close market st. from 3rd-8th street to private vehicles
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i've lived in sf for over 20 years.nobody actually wants to drive downtown, but public transit isn't good enough to reliably use it from large parts of the city.this is typical nanny state sf government.they ban things instead of coming up with better solutions.(yeah i don't think for a minute this will stop at market street.)
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no, sf is not closing market st. they're restricting turns onto it. you'll still be able to drive from van ness to the ferry building if you want to. or take the trolley line.of course those are some of the most dangerous intersections in the city. the druggies cross market there, between the 6th st corridor and the tenderloin. there are too many people crossing the street in that area who have impaired basic pedestrian skills.
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to save lives, sf will close market st. from 3rd-8th street to private vehicles
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no, sf is not closing market st. they're restricting turns onto it. you'll still be able to drive from van ness to the ferry building if you want to. or take the trolley line.of course those are some of the most dangerous intersections in the city. the druggies cross market there, between the 6th st corridor and the tenderloin. there are too many people crossing the street in that area who have impaired basic pedestrian skills.
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in sf, cars vs. everyone else captures a surprising amount of political energy. as someone who has lived in a variety of cities and suburbs, but sf for the past 3-4 years, sf remains excessively car-friendly at the expense of pedestrians, bicycles, public transit, and non-car-related uses of public space. fortunately the voting population and the political class are slowly pushing the cars out (the "saving lives" rhetoric is a smart strategy and not invalid, but there's more to it than that - the future prosperity and quality of life in the city depends on curbing private auto ownership and use). prohibiting private vehicles on market st. is a no-brainer.what i'd like to see is a kind of congestion pricing, eg. a $1000/year permit to operate a car in the city, with vouchers for low-income drivers. (i would pay this myself; i walk, take transit, cycle, drive, and take cabs in the city in that order of frequency)
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to save lives, sf will close market st. from 3rd-8th street to private vehicles
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in sf, cars vs. everyone else captures a surprising amount of political energy. as someone who has lived in a variety of cities and suburbs, but sf for the past 3-4 years, sf remains excessively car-friendly at the expense of pedestrians, bicycles, public transit, and non-car-related uses of public space. fortunately the voting population and the political class are slowly pushing the cars out (the "saving lives" rhetoric is a smart strategy and not invalid, but there's more to it than that - the future prosperity and quality of life in the city depends on curbing private auto ownership and use). prohibiting private vehicles on market st. is a no-brainer.what i'd like to see is a kind of congestion pricing, eg. a $1000/year permit to operate a car in the city, with vouchers for low-income drivers. (i would pay this myself; i walk, take transit, cycle, drive, and take cabs in the city in that order of frequency)
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i wish more cities would do this and in more areas. boston and cambridge for example are terrible to drive in and the public transit system provides a very viable alternative. maybe even convert some of the larger avenues to powered walkways and simply ban all private car traffic.
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thomas piketty: “germany has never repaid.”
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everyone here seems to be criticizing piketty for weird reasons. he is not saying post-war germany's debt is the exact same thing as the current greek crisis. pointing out parallels isn't same thing as saying two situations are equivalent.his point is that this isn't a "moral" decision between two peoples. it's an economic decision between nations.
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it actually reads to me that he is saying something quite similar to what i have been thinking recently: countries go bankrupt, we need a bankruptcy court/procedure for governments.the us needs it for its bankrupt local governments. the eu needs it for member states.the rationale behind bankruptcy is this: if a borrower cannot repay their debts in full, the lender cannot receive them in full. this isn't negotiable. it's an artefact of reality. given that the lender will not receive their payment in full, it makes sense we may as well have a process that acknowledges this fact and moves things forward. there is no point to debtors prisons. debt means risk and if bankruptcy happens, that risk plays out.the current greek situation is exactly that. the troika cannot receive its repayments in full. greece simply cannot repay them. it's not marginal. it's not possible if only greece would... it's not going to happen. they owe too much and their economy is in collapse. it is game over for these loans.
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thomas piketty: “germany has never repaid.”
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it actually reads to me that he is saying something quite similar to what i have been thinking recently: countries go bankrupt, we need a bankruptcy court/procedure for governments.the us needs it for its bankrupt local governments. the eu needs it for member states.the rationale behind bankruptcy is this: if a borrower cannot repay their debts in full, the lender cannot receive them in full. this isn't negotiable. it's an artefact of reality. given that the lender will not receive their payment in full, it makes sense we may as well have a process that acknowledges this fact and moves things forward. there is no point to debtors prisons. debt means risk and if bankruptcy happens, that risk plays out.the current greek situation is exactly that. the troika cannot receive its repayments in full. greece simply cannot repay them. it's not marginal. it's not possible if only greece would... it's not going to happen. they owe too much and their economy is in collapse. it is game over for these loans.
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this all reminds me of what we've learned about forest management. you see, for a long time we thought that all forest fires were bad, and set out to extinguish fires whenever even a small one broke out in a forest. after a few decades of almost no fire, a huge amount of burnable debris collected in the forests, and now, when fires break out, they're gigantic and far, far more damaging than normal forest fires.likewise, central banks have been working very hard to keep interest rates near zero. any interest is perceived to be a bad thing (the big piles of money held by the large private interests become relatively smaller under inflation), and has thus been held in check. normally, when things go somewhat badly for a country, they can issue a bunch of bonds and inflate their currency a bit to take up the flack. but with the euro, there's no opportunity for member countries to inflate their own currencies to smooth out the bumps, and strong pressure from the overall eurozone to keep interest rates low. the normal control mechanisms are suppressed, leading to bigger explosions when things go really wrong...
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thomas piketty: “germany has never repaid.”
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this all reminds me of what we've learned about forest management. you see, for a long time we thought that all forest fires were bad, and set out to extinguish fires whenever even a small one broke out in a forest. after a few decades of almost no fire, a huge amount of burnable debris collected in the forests, and now, when fires break out, they're gigantic and far, far more damaging than normal forest fires.likewise, central banks have been working very hard to keep interest rates near zero. any interest is perceived to be a bad thing (the big piles of money held by the large private interests become relatively smaller under inflation), and has thus been held in check. normally, when things go somewhat badly for a country, they can issue a bunch of bonds and inflate their currency a bit to take up the flack. but with the euro, there's no opportunity for member countries to inflate their own currencies to smooth out the bumps, and strong pressure from the overall eurozone to keep interest rates low. the normal control mechanisms are suppressed, leading to bigger explosions when things go really wrong...
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at the risk of being a moralizing bore, may i remind everybody that "germany", "greece" etc. are not people, and that people are not countries? i am surprised by the national coloring, however faint, of some comments here and there <link> "i am a german" or "greek here" should have no relevance to the ideas put forth. "your money" and "your banks" are not really "my money" and "my banks" once i have paid the tax and don't own the bank!the theory of complex systems reminds us that aggregates can have properties that are not traceable to any individuals themselves. game theory tells us that incentives and constraints can get so messed up that developments take on an eigendynamic which was nobody's intent nor interest.please, be civilized and don't let yourselves be infected by nationalistic passions.your moralizing nanny...(no seriously, i am starting to get concerned.)
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thomas piketty: “germany has never repaid.”
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at the risk of being a moralizing bore, may i remind everybody that "germany", "greece" etc. are not people, and that people are not countries? i am surprised by the national coloring, however faint, of some comments here and there <link> "i am a german" or "greek here" should have no relevance to the ideas put forth. "your money" and "your banks" are not really "my money" and "my banks" once i have paid the tax and don't own the bank!the theory of complex systems reminds us that aggregates can have properties that are not traceable to any individuals themselves. game theory tells us that incentives and constraints can get so messed up that developments take on an eigendynamic which was nobody's intent nor interest.please, be civilized and don't let yourselves be infected by nationalistic passions.your moralizing nanny...(no seriously, i am starting to get concerned.)
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this makes me lose respect for piketty. there's a very clear difference between a country that comes out of two world wars, with everything all but destroyed, including millions dead. i'm sorry, no matter how bad 2008 was, it was no world war. his inability to grasp this just boggles the mind.there's a very big difference between war caused debt and economic caused debt (note that i'm basically making these two "debts" up, and things are more nuanced obviously, but i'm going to ignore the nuances for now, these are very broad strokes.) when you come out of war, you're either the loser or the victor (one way or another, there are very few true "ties" in war.) and while capital may be destroyed in both cases, an economic crises doesn't necessarily leave your physical infrastructure and entire social system completely unrecognizable.further, piketty seemingly completely ignores the marshall plan and all that it included in rebuilding europe. and yes the marshall plan was a form of debt forgiveness, but as a huge portion of the european continent was a smoking crater, things were different in 1945 than greece in 2015.further, some historians/economists will argue that the "german miracle" (and "japanese miracle" as well) were in part because of the destruction cased by the wars. with all the manufacturing capabilities destroyed, they were able to rebuild with the latest and greatest technology of the time. (and if you take this further, as the us was able to rest on it's un-destroyed capital equipment and make huge profits during the rest of the 1940's, 50's and early 60's, and never re-invested as germany and japan were forced too, this eventually lead to the downfall of the us industrial might, in part.)personally, i think this has more to do with his french nationalism than anything else, at least as it appears to me in the interview.
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this industry is fucked
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there is a small culture of people online who make a hobby of harassment. they don't have an agenda. they aren't representative of anything. they're not distinguished by being part of any particular industry, race, sexuality or economic status. they are simply selfish individuals.they do it because it gives them little endorphin pops to think about how upset their victim must be and because it is a very low risk activity. that's all there is to it. they don't particularly care about "women in tech" or "women in gaming" to any extent beyond the fact that the controversy gives them a hook they can latch on to dig a reaction out of their victim. or infinitely better: the press!the only way to prevent this activity is to attach a small but concrete level of risk to it. quoting the article that chuckcode linked about reddit's "violentacrez":> "my wife is disabled. i got a home and a mortgage, and if this hits the fan, i believe this will affect negatively on my employment," he said. "i do my job, go home watch tv, and go on the internet. i just like riling people up in my spare time."
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i'm sorry to hear this.but i want to add a counter statistic.
i've only had pleasant experiences from people trying to help me.
the only shit i got in the industry was from a business manager trying to push our team into a death march.there are many factors out in there in the world.
we need to put things back into context, rather than just saying things like "our industry is fucked".it feels like lately its too easy to forget the majority of people in tech (i've found) are incredibly decent human beings both men and women.
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this industry is fucked
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i'm sorry to hear this.but i want to add a counter statistic.
i've only had pleasant experiences from people trying to help me.
the only shit i got in the industry was from a business manager trying to push our team into a death march.there are many factors out in there in the world.
we need to put things back into context, rather than just saying things like "our industry is fucked".it feels like lately its too easy to forget the majority of people in tech (i've found) are incredibly decent human beings both men and women.
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i'm currently working in a team that is 50% women, and i'm amazed at how many stories they have of previous work experiences and the culture of acceptance in medium sized companies.i hope jessie doesn't give up. not only for the sake of our industry, but also for the sake of girls who want to make it in this industry and not have to put up with what jessie has had to put up with.her (or any person) having to leave our industry because of any sort of harassment hurts the rest of us the most.rather than going the law enforcement harassment route, is there any way we as an industry can stand up for jessie and the rest of the woman who are being abused by a few assholes?just yesterday i met a friends niece who wants to become a game developer. she's only 14 now, but what a shame it would be for her to give up on her dream because some idiotic moron, mentally incapable of forming real normal relationships, has ruined our industry for her.this doesn't need police action (though nothing wrong with that), it needs us to be outspoken and supportive. maybe also a bit creative in how we handle this. i'm all for finding ways of kicking these offensive guys out and bringing more women in.
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this industry is fucked
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i'm currently working in a team that is 50% women, and i'm amazed at how many stories they have of previous work experiences and the culture of acceptance in medium sized companies.i hope jessie doesn't give up. not only for the sake of our industry, but also for the sake of girls who want to make it in this industry and not have to put up with what jessie has had to put up with.her (or any person) having to leave our industry because of any sort of harassment hurts the rest of us the most.rather than going the law enforcement harassment route, is there any way we as an industry can stand up for jessie and the rest of the woman who are being abused by a few assholes?just yesterday i met a friends niece who wants to become a game developer. she's only 14 now, but what a shame it would be for her to give up on her dream because some idiotic moron, mentally incapable of forming real normal relationships, has ruined our industry for her.this doesn't need police action (though nothing wrong with that), it needs us to be outspoken and supportive. maybe also a bit creative in how we handle this. i'm all for finding ways of kicking these offensive guys out and bringing more women in.
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every time i see posts like this, i see people commenting on it with varying statement to the effect of "that's a shame, but most people in tech aren't like that", or "i'm so tired of seeing posts like this, quit making a fuss."and that makes me so angry.sure, maybe not everyone in the industry is an arsehole. but enough people are, and those people are vocal enough, that a significant number of people feel disgusted and threatened. that should be enough to tell you that even if the majority are lovely people, the industry as a whole still has a problem.(also, for anyone wondering whether the number of people affected really is "significant", i would consider even one person to be a significant number)i also get really angry at posts like "this has never happened to me, so i'm sure it's all ok". this may come as a surprise, but individual experiences are not universal. that something has never happened to you doesn't mean it's never happened to anyone else.and if you're getting tired of seeing posts like this, don't complain about the people making the posts. complain about the people harassing them. it may seem counterintuitive, but the fastest and most effective way to stop posts like this turning up is actually to make more of them, until the harassment and abuse stop."this happens all the time" is never a valid excuse.
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this industry is fucked
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every time i see posts like this, i see people commenting on it with varying statement to the effect of "that's a shame, but most people in tech aren't like that", or "i'm so tired of seeing posts like this, quit making a fuss."and that makes me so angry.sure, maybe not everyone in the industry is an arsehole. but enough people are, and those people are vocal enough, that a significant number of people feel disgusted and threatened. that should be enough to tell you that even if the majority are lovely people, the industry as a whole still has a problem.(also, for anyone wondering whether the number of people affected really is "significant", i would consider even one person to be a significant number)i also get really angry at posts like "this has never happened to me, so i'm sure it's all ok". this may come as a surprise, but individual experiences are not universal. that something has never happened to you doesn't mean it's never happened to anyone else.and if you're getting tired of seeing posts like this, don't complain about the people making the posts. complain about the people harassing them. it may seem counterintuitive, but the fastest and most effective way to stop posts like this turning up is actually to make more of them, until the harassment and abuse stop."this happens all the time" is never a valid excuse.
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and people ask why more women don't speak at conferences or at meetup groups or contribute to open source software, or even publish blogs. it's because we are scared. we know what the consequences of making our voices heard can be, and it's terrifying, and we question whether it is worth the risk.
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es6: the features i'm most excited about
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i don't understand why everyone considers classes controversial. if you look at code in the wild, it already does what classes desugar to: everyone already writes constructor function and attaches properties to their prototypes.at least now with classes, users coming from other languages wont be as tempted to make their own completely incompatible object systems.
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my favourite feature is promises, while it doesn't add a new syntax and you can probably add a library for it, the fact it's standardised makes a world of difference. now that it's standardised1. it will become the common interface for deferred operations and library authors can make assumptions that it's there.2. es7 async/await will be able to leverage this common interface.
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es6: the features i'm most excited about
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my favourite feature is promises, while it doesn't add a new syntax and you can probably add a library for it, the fact it's standardised makes a world of difference. now that it's standardised1. it will become the common interface for deferred operations and library authors can make assumptions that it's there.2. es7 async/await will be able to leverage this common interface.
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the first module example is incorrect: // mymodule.js
export function mymodule(somearg) {
return somearg;
}
// main.js
import mymodule from 'mymodule';
the import is importing a non-existent default export. either the export needs to be changed to a default export: export default function mymodule(somearg) {
-or- the import needs to be changed to importing a member: import {mymodule} from 'mymodule';
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es6: the features i'm most excited about
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the first module example is incorrect: // mymodule.js
export function mymodule(somearg) {
return somearg;
}
// main.js
import mymodule from 'mymodule';
the import is importing a non-existent default export. either the export needs to be changed to a default export: export default function mymodule(somearg) {
-or- the import needs to be changed to importing a member: import {mymodule} from 'mymodule';
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even better: the arrow function example used the statement form of an arrow function, instead of the expression form, which allows you to omit the return: // using arrow
var adder = {
num: 2,
nums: [1,2,3,4,5],
addit() {
return this.nums.map(n => this.num + n)
}
};
console.log(adder.addit()); // [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
i'll concede that the arrow function is a bit overly complicated, with this, sometimes-optional argument list parenthesis, and object literal/function body syntax ambiguity.
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es6: the features i'm most excited about
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even better: the arrow function example used the statement form of an arrow function, instead of the expression form, which allows you to omit the return: // using arrow
var adder = {
num: 2,
nums: [1,2,3,4,5],
addit() {
return this.nums.map(n => this.num + n)
}
};
console.log(adder.addit()); // [3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
i'll concede that the arrow function is a bit overly complicated, with this, sometimes-optional argument list parenthesis, and object literal/function body syntax ambiguity.
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wow. i can't believe template strings (<link> aren't in this list. i'm incredibly excited to start having those at my disposal.
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reddit moderators shut down parts of site over employee’s dismissal
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not to put too fine a point on it, but isn't it more likely than not at this point that the ama admin was dismissed for some markedly embarrassing cause? otherwise, why wouldn't we have heard a full story?
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reddit uproar over the past few weeks has been pretty maddening. the closure of some hateful subreddits was a long time coming, and yet a very vocal contingent of the community took it upon themselves to brigade the entire site, and to spawn a racist 'chairman pao' meme.this uproar has a bit more legitimacy, and i think a lot of mods have right to be mad over not being told about victoria's firing/layoff/whatever it was (we don't actually know) -- but the response has been a grab bag of assumptions and conspiracy theories. anonymous quora posts were taken as gospel; assumptions about what decisions leaders at reddit made were rampant and then soon themselves became the defacto explanations of what was going on -- without any shred of evidence.i sympathize with the mods, and think that victoria's departure hurts mightily the entire iama community; but i cannot support the response so far. go to reddit and click on 'all', and then 'rising' at the top (warning, some stuff will be nsfw) -- look at the unbelievable vile the 'community' is spewing.
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reddit moderators shut down parts of site over employee’s dismissal
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reddit uproar over the past few weeks has been pretty maddening. the closure of some hateful subreddits was a long time coming, and yet a very vocal contingent of the community took it upon themselves to brigade the entire site, and to spawn a racist 'chairman pao' meme.this uproar has a bit more legitimacy, and i think a lot of mods have right to be mad over not being told about victoria's firing/layoff/whatever it was (we don't actually know) -- but the response has been a grab bag of assumptions and conspiracy theories. anonymous quora posts were taken as gospel; assumptions about what decisions leaders at reddit made were rampant and then soon themselves became the defacto explanations of what was going on -- without any shred of evidence.i sympathize with the mods, and think that victoria's departure hurts mightily the entire iama community; but i cannot support the response so far. go to reddit and click on 'all', and then 'rising' at the top (warning, some stuff will be nsfw) -- look at the unbelievable vile the 'community' is spewing.
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when a company is so dependent on community created content or work, the company needs to nurture and be in touch with that community. what seems to have happened with reddit in recent times is that the company has drawn further away from the community and taken it for granted as they seek to monetize the content.take for example r/iama. it was a community created subreddit that became quite popular. once it became successful, the company seemed to try to take greater ownership of it by directing the process themselves. after the recent scandal, they created a dedicated [email protected] account to coordinate amas. the mods have instead created [email protected] to own the process separate from the company.the current leadership of reddit really does not understand the community and the fine implicit agreement between the community and the host.this is going to make a great case study in the future on how to manage the relationship with user generated content sites.
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reddit moderators shut down parts of site over employee’s dismissal
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when a company is so dependent on community created content or work, the company needs to nurture and be in touch with that community. what seems to have happened with reddit in recent times is that the company has drawn further away from the community and taken it for granted as they seek to monetize the content.take for example r/iama. it was a community created subreddit that became quite popular. once it became successful, the company seemed to try to take greater ownership of it by directing the process themselves. after the recent scandal, they created a dedicated [email protected] account to coordinate amas. the mods have instead created [email protected] to own the process separate from the company.the current leadership of reddit really does not understand the community and the fine implicit agreement between the community and the host.this is going to make a great case study in the future on how to manage the relationship with user generated content sites.
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guess the jackson ama is one for the memory hole.
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reddit moderators shut down parts of site over employee’s dismissal
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guess the jackson ama is one for the memory hole.
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reddit under ellen pao simply feels different. the site often times feels a hell of a lot more like a cute puppy picture aggregator than anything else.the more niche subreddits (especially programming-related) are just as they always have been, but it's gotten to the point where i barely ever look at what's happening under /r/all anymore.
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what part of speech is “the”? (2006)
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part of the problem of course if the naive notion that you can fit words into a single grammatical category, like species in a taxonomy, while word usage ends up defying this simplification.the real problem is that taxonomic classification is rarely correct in nature.
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linguistics is the only field i can think of where the general public does not take seriously the knowledge of the experts (linguists).
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what part of speech is “the”? (2006)
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linguistics is the only field i can think of where the general public does not take seriously the knowledge of the experts (linguists).
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these days, in quebec, french (as a first language) is taught using a more-or-less linguistically correct approach, with articles called determiners, dividing sentences into groups and using transformations to understand interrogative sentences. in my days we used a more traditional system, and the time we spent doing grammar analysis was very tedious; we only approached the subject in secondary school. these days they are taught to analyse sentences in 3rd-4th grade and up.
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what part of speech is “the”? (2006)
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these days, in quebec, french (as a first language) is taught using a more-or-less linguistically correct approach, with articles called determiners, dividing sentences into groups and using transformations to understand interrogative sentences. in my days we used a more traditional system, and the time we spent doing grammar analysis was very tedious; we only approached the subject in secondary school. these days they are taught to analyse sentences in 3rd-4th grade and up.
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"the deeper problem is the school tradition itself. it's a tradition, after all"interesting point and i agree. why are we identifying metalinguistics with words anyway? why not just use symbols so we can actually compare them across languages?is the tradition so inherently rigid and stuck to the written/spoken languages - rather than moving beyond words and use a system of symbols?the tradition obsufcates the universality of grammar and semantics by adding words atop words rather than simple symbolism.doesn't this make internalization harder? you don't teach math just by numbers but also with symbols and real-world references.as for internalization and understanding what and where 'the' belongs...there has been astounding success in identification and understanding when metalinguistics is entirely removed and replaced with simple symbols like grmmr (<link> i've seen results upfront and it seems a non-word approach eases and solidifies linguistic understanding in ways far more profoundly than metalinguistics ever can. teachers and students alike have said this system has taken away all the cloud of uncertainty in language grammar and semantics.if you are a linguist and you are interested in helping grmmr become a standard in the studies of metalinguistics, please do let me know! i'm the design partner of the company. we are eager to open source this knowledge into a simple but reliable notation.this system has been in use for over 20 years in classrooms, colleges, and adult education programs. it has been redesigned from bottom up in order to be as accessible and consistent as you would expect from a grammar categorizing system.
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what part of speech is “the”? (2006)
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"the deeper problem is the school tradition itself. it's a tradition, after all"interesting point and i agree. why are we identifying metalinguistics with words anyway? why not just use symbols so we can actually compare them across languages?is the tradition so inherently rigid and stuck to the written/spoken languages - rather than moving beyond words and use a system of symbols?the tradition obsufcates the universality of grammar and semantics by adding words atop words rather than simple symbolism.doesn't this make internalization harder? you don't teach math just by numbers but also with symbols and real-world references.as for internalization and understanding what and where 'the' belongs...there has been astounding success in identification and understanding when metalinguistics is entirely removed and replaced with simple symbols like grmmr (<link> i've seen results upfront and it seems a non-word approach eases and solidifies linguistic understanding in ways far more profoundly than metalinguistics ever can. teachers and students alike have said this system has taken away all the cloud of uncertainty in language grammar and semantics.if you are a linguist and you are interested in helping grmmr become a standard in the studies of metalinguistics, please do let me know! i'm the design partner of the company. we are eager to open source this knowledge into a simple but reliable notation.this system has been in use for over 20 years in classrooms, colleges, and adult education programs. it has been redesigned from bottom up in order to be as accessible and consistent as you would expect from a grammar categorizing system.
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i'm surprised the author has run in to so many that don't seem to have learned about articles. isn't this one of the most basic topics in middle-school grammar? i'm pretty sure "the" is one of the most common words in the language after all.i was taught in 6th or 7th grade that "the" is the definite article. as opposed to "a" which is an indefinite article.for those that are fuzzy on the concept this is the best online reference i found: <link>
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the icann public comments on whois privacy
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"the the week of the 29th brought 995 more. so i think it's clear that, without significant outside promotion of these topics, almost nobody would have noticed this proposal."this sentence makes me seeth. icann's proposal affects many millions of people who've chosen to utilize a domain name or will choose to do so in the future. if you asked a majority of these users they'd probably have difficulty placing icann as an organization if anything at all yet this unawareness would justify icann's position? icann certainly hasn't gone out of their way to make the public aware of the situation.the tone of the article suggests the author is ready to disregard the templated responses from save domain privacy and others yet wouldn't these be the main channels for users to become aware of the icann proposal and take the opportunity to register their disapproval? one of the few places where one can educate themselves about this secretive icann situation is one of the primary sources that can't be trusted for honest comment. it sounds like they've already made up their mind on things.even sweeping indictments in the last year from an overwhelming portion of the public on similar issues surrounding online privacy and the desire for an open internet don't seem to weigh on icann's mind in regards to this decision.
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if you want to submit comment directly to icann, you do so here.<link> down to "template for responses (if desired)." (direct link: <link> )the form asks you to comment on a dozen or so specific parts of the report and the working group proposal. i imagine comments submitted this way will have more impact than a plain letter since you will be guided to address all of the contentious parts.
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the icann public comments on whois privacy
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if you want to submit comment directly to icann, you do so here.<link> down to "template for responses (if desired)." (direct link: <link> )the form asks you to comment on a dozen or so specific parts of the report and the working group proposal. i imagine comments submitted this way will have more impact than a plain letter since you will be guided to address all of the contentious parts.
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my team at namecheap built respectourprivacy.com. in case you were wondering, visitors have dialed icann's la office through our site 1,800 times.
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the icann public comments on whois privacy
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my team at namecheap built respectourprivacy.com. in case you were wondering, visitors have dialed icann's la office through our site 1,800 times.
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it's so baffling that they are pushing these changes when only a year or so ago they were preparing to eliminate whois altogether... [1][2]does anyone know what led to this complete change in direction?[1] <link>[2] <link>
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the icann public comments on whois privacy
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it's so baffling that they are pushing these changes when only a year or so ago they were preparing to eliminate whois altogether... [1][2]does anyone know what led to this complete change in direction?[1] <link>[2] <link>
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a similar discussion got posted to reddit a while back, and nobody seems to be mentioning that the phrase that has everybody so riled up ("domains used for online financial transactions for commercial purpose should be ineligible for [whois] privacy and proxy registrations") is taken entirely out of context. if you read the actual document, it's clear that this is a suggestion from a few specific parties to the discussion, and it is emphatically not the opinion of the icann working group as a whole, much less does it rise to the status of a "proposed rule". from the pdf: (<link>; the wg agrees that the status of a registrant as a commercial organization, non-commercial organization, or individual should not be the driving factor in whether p/p services are available to the registrant. fundamentally, p/p services should remain available to registrants irrespective of their status as commercial or non-commercial organizations or as individuals....> as noted above, the wg agrees that the mere fact of a domain being registered by a commercial entity, or by anyone conducting commercial activity in other spheres, should not prevent the use of p/p services. in addition, a majority of wg members did not think it either necessary or practical to prohibit domain names being actively used for commercial activity from using p/p services....> the wg does not believe that p/p registrations should be limited to private individuals who use their domains for non-commercial purposes.i think it's telling that the vast majority of feedback came from members of the public who read namecheap's call-to-action at <link> as an outsider, it looks to me like namecheap and the eff are purposely distorting the situation to drum up some positive pr.
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ask hn: have you ever been contacted to sell your user's information?
my friend who runs a student service with a couple thousand users was contacted today over facebook with an offer for his user's emails:<p>"it's for an event newsletter. won't say we got it from you."<p>this ask really bothered me, both from an ethics and pragmatic standpoint. which got me thinking about the scandals and pressure larger companies, especially ones that are failing or have failed encounter with their user data. at non trivial quantities or certain domains this data must get extremely valuable. combine this with the increasing likelihood that developers have access to production services and i was left feeling a little uneasy.<p>have you ever been contacted as an employee/founder with an offer for your user's data?<p>what happens to user's data when companies die? is it purged, sold off, dormant?
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a long time ago i ran a file hosting service that almost exclusively served one particular "fringe" community (for some reason it got really popular on one site and spread from there). i was running it anonymously at the time (for both me and for the users), and logging was minimal...... so imagine my surprise when i received an e-mail (at the abuse@ address, no less) offering to buy uploader/downloader info (ips, file info, email addresses, etc.)imagine their surprise when i told them that i didn't have most of what they wanted in the first place, and that they could kindly go suck a pig. i checked out the company in question, and they seemed rather sparsely established, so my assumption was that they were a shell company for somebody. never really looked into it after i told them to go to hell, and never heard back from them. afaik there wasn't a lot of pirate traffic (i shut that down and banned/reported aggressively whenever i found it/was notified about piracy or other illegal stuff), mostly just niche content that i assume was original... so i doubt it was an mpaa/riaa thing. odd.(sorry for keeping names out of it. the site was super well-known within the community, and i'd rather keep my involvement in said community quite isolated from my real life.)glad to be out of the file host business, that's for sure.
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haha that's not dodgy at all. there is a legitimate business around selling data;this is ok in 3 scenarios i can think offhand: 1) a company collects personal/contact information on behalf of another and is upfront about this at collection 2) a company contacts their list asking if these people would like to share their information with a company 3) permission to sell information is in the t&c on sign-up of the original company.if one of these 3 is not covered i image companies should purge data if the business closes. option 2 would be good for companies that are looking for a cash bump on the way out.at a financial level i see a bunch of people with lists in the 10's of thousands and they are surprised how little it is worth. to earn a western level income from a contact list you'd likely need a hundred thousand plus of contacts assuming a typical consumer audience and reasonable response rates. lists are worth significantly more for specific hard to reach groups like cto's or surgeons etc. for me these would be 15x what i pay against a standard consumer list as a massive generalisation.
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ask hn: have you ever been contacted to sell your user's information?
my friend who runs a student service with a couple thousand users was contacted today over facebook with an offer for his user's emails:<p>"it's for an event newsletter. won't say we got it from you."<p>this ask really bothered me, both from an ethics and pragmatic standpoint. which got me thinking about the scandals and pressure larger companies, especially ones that are failing or have failed encounter with their user data. at non trivial quantities or certain domains this data must get extremely valuable. combine this with the increasing likelihood that developers have access to production services and i was left feeling a little uneasy.<p>have you ever been contacted as an employee/founder with an offer for your user's data?<p>what happens to user's data when companies die? is it purged, sold off, dormant?
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haha that's not dodgy at all. there is a legitimate business around selling data;this is ok in 3 scenarios i can think offhand: 1) a company collects personal/contact information on behalf of another and is upfront about this at collection 2) a company contacts their list asking if these people would like to share their information with a company 3) permission to sell information is in the t&c on sign-up of the original company.if one of these 3 is not covered i image companies should purge data if the business closes. option 2 would be good for companies that are looking for a cash bump on the way out.at a financial level i see a bunch of people with lists in the 10's of thousands and they are surprised how little it is worth. to earn a western level income from a contact list you'd likely need a hundred thousand plus of contacts assuming a typical consumer audience and reasonable response rates. lists are worth significantly more for specific hard to reach groups like cto's or surgeons etc. for me these would be 15x what i pay against a standard consumer list as a massive generalisation.
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yes, several years ago i ran a self-created political site in favor of a specific candidate. i stated in the privacy notice that all information collected would not be shared and be deleted after the election. as i recall, i collected name, birthdate, gender, email, address because i wanted to correlate and display the info in a summary fashion, and i allowed people to make comments and come back and edit them so i had a password system, and some other things.i had a few people contact me and offer rather significant money for the info (in total over $10k) if i'd quietly sell them a copy before i deleted it - pretty disappointing to me that they thought i'd do that.
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ask hn: have you ever been contacted to sell your user's information?
my friend who runs a student service with a couple thousand users was contacted today over facebook with an offer for his user's emails:<p>"it's for an event newsletter. won't say we got it from you."<p>this ask really bothered me, both from an ethics and pragmatic standpoint. which got me thinking about the scandals and pressure larger companies, especially ones that are failing or have failed encounter with their user data. at non trivial quantities or certain domains this data must get extremely valuable. combine this with the increasing likelihood that developers have access to production services and i was left feeling a little uneasy.<p>have you ever been contacted as an employee/founder with an offer for your user's data?<p>what happens to user's data when companies die? is it purged, sold off, dormant?
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yes, several years ago i ran a self-created political site in favor of a specific candidate. i stated in the privacy notice that all information collected would not be shared and be deleted after the election. as i recall, i collected name, birthdate, gender, email, address because i wanted to correlate and display the info in a summary fashion, and i allowed people to make comments and come back and edit them so i had a password system, and some other things.i had a few people contact me and offer rather significant money for the info (in total over $10k) if i'd quietly sell them a copy before i deleted it - pretty disappointing to me that they thought i'd do that.
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your friend could always fight shady with shady. write a script to randomly generate a few thousand email addresses that look like they might be real. :)
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ask hn: have you ever been contacted to sell your user's information?
my friend who runs a student service with a couple thousand users was contacted today over facebook with an offer for his user's emails:<p>"it's for an event newsletter. won't say we got it from you."<p>this ask really bothered me, both from an ethics and pragmatic standpoint. which got me thinking about the scandals and pressure larger companies, especially ones that are failing or have failed encounter with their user data. at non trivial quantities or certain domains this data must get extremely valuable. combine this with the increasing likelihood that developers have access to production services and i was left feeling a little uneasy.<p>have you ever been contacted as an employee/founder with an offer for your user's data?<p>what happens to user's data when companies die? is it purged, sold off, dormant?
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your friend could always fight shady with shady. write a script to randomly generate a few thousand email addresses that look like they might be real. :)
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i was approached a long time ago with an offer to pay for users' info on a forum i ran. you should have seen the shock at my refusal. the buyer just couldn't understand why i wouldn't want to make free money for just selling the list.funny, it gave me the impression that i was the first to say no and that most people would gladly sell off people's privacy for a buck. sad.
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united declares 4-digit pin login and lack of ssl “functioning as designed”
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it's not a bug for the purposes of a bug bounty program because logging in with a 4-digit pin is the actual design, not an unintended flaw in implementation
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title seems quite linkbaity. in a 4digit pin-based system, being able to log in with a 4 digit pin isn't a vuln, it's how the system works.they even state up-front that improvements to the system are in the works.
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united declares 4-digit pin login and lack of ssl “functioning as designed”
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title seems quite linkbaity. in a 4digit pin-based system, being able to log in with a 4 digit pin isn't a vuln, it's how the system works.they even state up-front that improvements to the system are in the works.
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well, is that how it's supposed to be functioning?the tweet says it's a security vulnerability, their response says it's functioning as designed. not mutually exclusive.
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united declares 4-digit pin login and lack of ssl “functioning as designed”
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well, is that how it's supposed to be functioning?the tweet says it's a security vulnerability, their response says it's functioning as designed. not mutually exclusive.
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> that means the attack surface for accessing someone's account is np hard, but n is always equal to 4.fyi, the "n" in "np hard" is not a number. it stands for nondeterministic. the mention of "np hard" in the first place just seems...unnecessary.
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united declares 4-digit pin login and lack of ssl “functioning as designed”
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> that means the attack surface for accessing someone's account is np hard, but n is always equal to 4.fyi, the "n" in "np hard" is not a number. it stands for nondeterministic. the mention of "np hard" in the first place just seems...unnecessary.
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also, when you factor in the human tendency to pick very easily guessed pin codes, it's laughably easy. [1] 11% are "1234"also, when you log into the united website, you can transfer airline miles. true, once someone complains about their miles disappearing, united might pull them back and ban the receiving account, but it might take a while.it would be trivially easy to steal lots of airline miles into one hacked account and then sell them onto other people on the open market. when united takes them back, the buyers will be without recourse.[1] <link>
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ask hn: what tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of hn?
i listen to the changelog, programming throwdown podcasts when i'm driving and try to read one cs related research paper a month. would like to know what blogs/podcasts/websites/magazines do you follow?
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i'm really getting a lot out of tim ferriss' podcast <link> lately. especially the episodes with kelly starrett, josh waitzkin, sam harris, peter attia, pavel tsatsouline and whitney cummings.i think at a certain point you start to recognize that more tech isn't helping as much as it was (diminishing returns perhaps) and that a more holistic approach to improving is necessary.
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i listen to dotnetrocks.com podcasts during my commute to work and while taking a walk. love it so far. learned so much new stuff.edit - i also follow asp.net\community, techcrunch, robert scoble's updates, the hacker news, fb engineering, scott hanselman, guy kawasaki and few more tech resources via my fb news feed. i also watch few videos from time to time at youtube.com. msdn blogs, channel 9, mvc conf, dotnet conf are also in my reference list.my problem here -
i come across so much great content everyday but it is very hard to digest everything or keep everything somewhere conveniently to refer later. currently, i email content links to myself. i tried pocket and other similar services but they do not have good features to retrieve or refer content later on. and, this is the reason i started work on this site - www.linksto.re few years ago. it provides you summary of articles that you saved, clutter\ad free reading. user profile to show you what they have saved.features coming soon - great search capabilities by tags, date or content. calendar to locate stored articles or schedule reading for yourself or with your friends. article recommendations.i am really sorry for this shameless plug.
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ask hn: what tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of hn?
i listen to the changelog, programming throwdown podcasts when i'm driving and try to read one cs related research paper a month. would like to know what blogs/podcasts/websites/magazines do you follow?
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i listen to dotnetrocks.com podcasts during my commute to work and while taking a walk. love it so far. learned so much new stuff.edit - i also follow asp.net\community, techcrunch, robert scoble's updates, the hacker news, fb engineering, scott hanselman, guy kawasaki and few more tech resources via my fb news feed. i also watch few videos from time to time at youtube.com. msdn blogs, channel 9, mvc conf, dotnet conf are also in my reference list.my problem here -
i come across so much great content everyday but it is very hard to digest everything or keep everything somewhere conveniently to refer later. currently, i email content links to myself. i tried pocket and other similar services but they do not have good features to retrieve or refer content later on. and, this is the reason i started work on this site - www.linksto.re few years ago. it provides you summary of articles that you saved, clutter\ad free reading. user profile to show you what they have saved.features coming soon - great search capabilities by tags, date or content. calendar to locate stored articles or schedule reading for yourself or with your friends. article recommendations.i am really sorry for this shameless plug.
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frequently:<link> - my second best feed (after hn)occasionally:<link> - hn for data science<link> - mathematics, theoretical physics<link> - mathematics<link> - less wrong-kind stuff (the guy writes frequent and well, but somehow too verbosely)<link> - data visualizationsa bit of g+ (mainly, if not only, for a few guys in mathematics and physics).
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ask hn: what tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of hn?
i listen to the changelog, programming throwdown podcasts when i'm driving and try to read one cs related research paper a month. would like to know what blogs/podcasts/websites/magazines do you follow?
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frequently:<link> - my second best feed (after hn)occasionally:<link> - hn for data science<link> - mathematics, theoretical physics<link> - mathematics<link> - less wrong-kind stuff (the guy writes frequent and well, but somehow too verbosely)<link> - data visualizationsa bit of g+ (mainly, if not only, for a few guys in mathematics and physics).
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highly recommend the a16z podcast:<link> are usually small bites (~20-30 mins) of discussion/interviews on one of the upcoming technologies/trends by a couple of andreessen horowitz partners and an invited guest. content is usually pretty insightful and they are really good at doing a thorough analysis of the current status of the tech industry.
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ask hn: what tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of hn?
i listen to the changelog, programming throwdown podcasts when i'm driving and try to read one cs related research paper a month. would like to know what blogs/podcasts/websites/magazines do you follow?
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highly recommend the a16z podcast:<link> are usually small bites (~20-30 mins) of discussion/interviews on one of the upcoming technologies/trends by a couple of andreessen horowitz partners and an invited guest. content is usually pretty insightful and they are really good at doing a thorough analysis of the current status of the tech industry.
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blogs/websites in no particular order:* <link> (jeff atwood)* <link> (pete krumins)* <link> (mike fogus)* <link> (russ cox)* <link> (fred lundh)* <link> (adam wiggins)podcasts in no particular order:* <link> (net rocks)* <link> (net focused podcast with scott allen, kevin dente, scoot koon and jon galloway)* <link> (a podcast about indie software development)* <link> (python podcast)* <link> (binpress podcast about digital products)magazines in no particular order:* <link> (hn in pdf)* <link> (tech/coding news)* <link> (dr. dobbs)and many more.
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the decentral authority
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<link> practical and social problems of distributed/decentralized social networks seems to far outweigh the gains in terms of anti-censorship/network resilience.reddit already suffers from a thing known as 'karma whoring', where users will work hard simply to gain karma points, often to the detriment of the quality of the community they're interacting with.karma points have absolutely no financial benefit or real worth outside of the status some internet denizens attach to them. i have struggled to imagine a single way of introducing financial incentives for reddit participation that wouldn't ultimately fall prey to this.it's also hard to conceive how moderation/curation might work in a distributed/decentralized system.to put it simply, i've come to the conclusion that censorship is an often required tool in creating internet communities where everyone can feel welcome and safe.i'm not sure how that would work in a distributed system.context:i had this idea a while ago and started trying to write it. i really hope something comes out of all of the different approaches people are taking to this problem.
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it seems like "blockchain" is the new "nosql". blockchains are designed for specific use cases, they aren't a generic powerup that you just bolt onto your idea to make it a distributed awesomeness machine.
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the decentral authority
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it seems like "blockchain" is the new "nosql". blockchains are designed for specific use cases, they aren't a generic powerup that you just bolt onto your idea to make it a distributed awesomeness machine.
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url changed from <link>, which points to this. title changed from "fred wilson: the next reddit will likely be built on the bitcoin blockchain" to fred's actual title.submitters: hn prefers original sources, especially when some site has shamelessly ripped off somebody else's work and stuck a baitylicious title on it. please do your due diligence and post the real thing. the community will appreciate it, and the discussion will be better, since ripoffs tend also to be dumb.
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the decentral authority
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url changed from <link>, which points to this. title changed from "fred wilson: the next reddit will likely be built on the bitcoin blockchain" to fred's actual title.submitters: hn prefers original sources, especially when some site has shamelessly ripped off somebody else's work and stuck a baitylicious title on it. please do your due diligence and post the real thing. the community will appreciate it, and the discussion will be better, since ripoffs tend also to be dumb.
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i actually created something like this for the la hacks hackathon last year. <link> idea was a reddit-style ama site where questions would each get a bitcoin address assigned to them. the bitcoin sent to that address would be a bounty for the ama subject to be able to claim after answering.
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the decentral authority
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i actually created something like this for the la hacks hackathon last year. <link> idea was a reddit-style ama site where questions would each get a bitcoin address assigned to them. the bitcoin sent to that address would be a bounty for the ama subject to be able to claim after answering.
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very misleading title, extremely stupid concept.really all this article suggests is a p2p network where you are paid small amounts of btc to be a peer (and pay to access other peers) and upvotes send btc to the poster. it's a ludicrous idea that would never work. reddit works because, among other things, votes/karma is worthless. everyone's vote counts equally and everyone can vote on everything once. to tie voting to btc or incentivize people to scam/cheat/lie for real money is just idiotc.also the blockchain will not be used to "host" the new reddit and other people (wrong people) have suggested.now an identity linked to the blockchain, used to access a decentralized reddit of nodes that contained subreddits which could be synced to other nodes (think newsgroups/usenet) but with anyone being able to run a node and set retention rates on posts/comments might work. anyone could archive off bits and pieces of it (a la google groups) but some might only be hosted on 1 node or require some kind of key or password to access the content so "dark" sub reddits. the big problem is voting, and i'm not sure if a system like this could support anonymous voting. i'm guessing not but i'm no expert.
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hacking team hacked, attackers claim 400gb in dumped data
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> ...hacking team's customers include south korea, kazakhstan, saudi arabia, oman, lebanon, and mongolia. yet, the company maintains that it does not do business with oppressive governments.i was curious if those were all oppressive governments, especially since south korea was included. according to a couple indices on wikipedia [1] south korea is pretty free (only the press freedom index is lower than america's), and mongolia's not so bad (political freedom, but weakness in press and economic freedom). pretty hard to lump south korea in with saudi arabia or kazakhstan.1: <link>
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damn, this hack is massive.this seems to include all their deals/financial data, the full source code to everything (including some novel things like efi malware and possibly some office/flash 0days), all their mail, badges of every employee, personal screenshots/porn habits etc etc.it's not possible to get hacked harder than this.
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hacking team hacked, attackers claim 400gb in dumped data
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damn, this hack is massive.this seems to include all their deals/financial data, the full source code to everything (including some novel things like efi malware and possibly some office/flash 0days), all their mail, badges of every employee, personal screenshots/porn habits etc etc.it's not possible to get hacked harder than this.
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someone is uploading things to github: <link> a look at the geotrust repo...this is a very interesting file, too: <link>
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hacking team hacked, attackers claim 400gb in dumped data
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someone is uploading things to github: <link> a look at the geotrust repo...this is a very interesting file, too: <link>
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i've no idea about the whole story and what hacking team exactly did during the years, but i started to write serious code around 1998 working for vincenzetti, so i think i can provide some hint about this to counter-balance all the hate.* they allowed me to work on hping, releasing it as free software during most of my working hours. they supported my research that lead to <link>* vincenzetti taught me personally many things about posix, and he was a very skilled programmer. he wrote, afaik before ssh existed, a secure shell that was in use at least in italy for some time. it used udp and implemented the reliable connection on top of it in a secure way using state of art encryption. so we are talking about serious programmers.* bedeschi, the co-founder of the company, is an incredible hacker, from the way he typed to the keyboard to the incredible unix knowledged he had.i worked for a couple of months for their "seclab", then left the company to return in sicily since i did not wanted to live in milan. i don't want to provide an ethical evaluation of the people and don't have enough information, but i can assure you that they were an incredible team of talented hackers.edit: for sure they were very competitive people. i remember than when i left, vincenzetti told me that it was a shame, i was a very talented programmer in his opinion, and i would finish in my little town in sicily writing "soccer bet programs". he just wanted to push me to stay in the big city to know more hackers and so forth. i'm glad i don't write soccer bet programs btw.
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hacking team hacked, attackers claim 400gb in dumped data
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i've no idea about the whole story and what hacking team exactly did during the years, but i started to write serious code around 1998 working for vincenzetti, so i think i can provide some hint about this to counter-balance all the hate.* they allowed me to work on hping, releasing it as free software during most of my working hours. they supported my research that lead to <link>* vincenzetti taught me personally many things about posix, and he was a very skilled programmer. he wrote, afaik before ssh existed, a secure shell that was in use at least in italy for some time. it used udp and implemented the reliable connection on top of it in a secure way using state of art encryption. so we are talking about serious programmers.* bedeschi, the co-founder of the company, is an incredible hacker, from the way he typed to the keyboard to the incredible unix knowledged he had.i worked for a couple of months for their "seclab", then left the company to return in sicily since i did not wanted to live in milan. i don't want to provide an ethical evaluation of the people and don't have enough information, but i can assure you that they were an incredible team of talented hackers.edit: for sure they were very competitive people. i remember than when i left, vincenzetti told me that it was a shame, i was a very talented programmer in his opinion, and i would finish in my little town in sicily writing "soccer bet programs". he just wanted to push me to stay in the big city to know more hackers and so forth. i'm glad i don't write soccer bet programs btw.
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i do not want to sound shockingly naive, but i wonder how these people can sleep at night. you've just sold software to some of the most brutal governments in the world, who will use your technology to track down and brutally torture incredibly brave human rights activists.how can you do this, and still get up in the morning while looking at yourself in the mirror? i can understand petty crime if the alternative is watching your family starve, but these are all skilled software developers, it's not like they will have a hard time finding a job.the people who are involved in this should be forced to watch videos of what those friendly governments do to the civil rights activists they catch.
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nasa’s new horizons plans july 7 return to normal science operations
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emily lakdawalla of the planetary society has posted a summary of the press briefing held about the new horizons anomaly [ <link> ]. her summary:- the anomaly related to the main computer being asked to do two computationally intensive tasks at once, and they were more than the computer could handle, so new horizons switched to the backup computer, entered safe mode, stopped science, and called for help from earth.- on earth, engineers quickly understood the problem.- it is not a problem that can happen during the encounter.- mission leadership chose to suspend science activities to focus on recovery efforts.- science activities will resume on july 7 at 9:45 pt / 12:45 et / 16:45 ut, earth received time (so, about 12:15 ut, spacecraft event time).- 30 planned science observations were lost between july 3 and 7, none of them required for the top-level science goals of the mission.- the anomaly is no reason to doubt that new horizons will perform its encounter science as planned.
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as someone who loses sleep whenever he submits an app update to the app store, i can't even imagine... good luck to everyone working on this mission -- it's an awesome one.
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nasa’s new horizons plans july 7 return to normal science operations
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as someone who loses sleep whenever he submits an app update to the app store, i can't even imagine... good luck to everyone working on this mission -- it's an awesome one.
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looks like this story supersedes <link>, which was on the front page most of today.
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nasa’s new horizons plans july 7 return to normal science operations
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looks like this story supersedes <link>, which was on the front page most of today.
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ever since i was a wee kid i wondered what pluto looked like. when the news came that there were issues with new horizons just days away from finally coming close to pluto my heart sank.it's very good news to hear it's back and will be good for the fly-by. i'm so excited to finally see pictures up close to this planet / dwarf planet!
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nasa’s new horizons plans july 7 return to normal science operations
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ever since i was a wee kid i wondered what pluto looked like. when the news came that there were issues with new horizons just days away from finally coming close to pluto my heart sank.it's very good news to hear it's back and will be good for the fly-by. i'm so excited to finally see pictures up close to this planet / dwarf planet!
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thank goodness! looking forward to the pluto close-ups, which will hopefully include the dark spots.
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ask hn: share an idea?
if you're like me, you often have a lot of ideas that you don't have the time or resources to execute on.<p>if so, why not write it down for your fellow hackers' enjoyment?<p>topics can be anything: product ideas, service ideas, blog post topics, stand up comedy skits, research initiatives you wish could get funded, etc.
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netflix, but mostly decentralized. end users can be paid to allocate part of their pc's storage toward movies and shows that they stream to their neighbors, taking a lot of the load off the public backbones and central servers.of course, these are encrypted and only decrypted (transcrypted?) when they're transferred to someone nearby, intelligently based on `tracepath` or something. my thought (may or may not be feasible) was that the central server only gives you the public key for the data, and then provides the private key and a new public key when the data is transmitted. i'm not sure that's even possible with any level of secrecy, but if so it would remove a lot of redundant traffic and i imagine you could pay people less than you'd save on bandwidth/peering if you could just pay them to p2p content (securely).get theaters involved in the initial distribution since they're everywhere and have digital copies (and probably decent pipes).basically, my internet got really crappy every day at about 6 pm and i imagined that 90% of my neighbors were streaming the same episodes of breaking bad, and it bugged me that it wasn't just sent once and the distributed locally.
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amazing post-game experience for recreational athletes.i play soccer recreationally. i've easily played more than 1,000 games and all i have post-game are memories ( which are nice ), but i feel we could do much better.i have a vague idea for a solution - but it would involve drone-filming all my recreational soccer games, and then have the content edited/produced - so i could see al my plays, everyone else's best plays, and so on and so forth.it would be really interesting because it would also augment the social in-pitch experience with post-game online socialization.what do you think?
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ask hn: share an idea?
if you're like me, you often have a lot of ideas that you don't have the time or resources to execute on.<p>if so, why not write it down for your fellow hackers' enjoyment?<p>topics can be anything: product ideas, service ideas, blog post topics, stand up comedy skits, research initiatives you wish could get funded, etc.
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amazing post-game experience for recreational athletes.i play soccer recreationally. i've easily played more than 1,000 games and all i have post-game are memories ( which are nice ), but i feel we could do much better.i have a vague idea for a solution - but it would involve drone-filming all my recreational soccer games, and then have the content edited/produced - so i could see al my plays, everyone else's best plays, and so on and so forth.it would be really interesting because it would also augment the social in-pitch experience with post-game online socialization.what do you think?
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pay for full time, beat-walking emergency medical technicians in shitty neighborhoods. this would prevent a lot of unneeded hospital visits and offer basic health services. a lot cheaper than 911 calls. i imagine having people on the ground would prevent a lot of problems.
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ask hn: share an idea?
if you're like me, you often have a lot of ideas that you don't have the time or resources to execute on.<p>if so, why not write it down for your fellow hackers' enjoyment?<p>topics can be anything: product ideas, service ideas, blog post topics, stand up comedy skits, research initiatives you wish could get funded, etc.
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pay for full time, beat-walking emergency medical technicians in shitty neighborhoods. this would prevent a lot of unneeded hospital visits and offer basic health services. a lot cheaper than 911 calls. i imagine having people on the ground would prevent a lot of problems.
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problem: advertising is a big industry. billions of dollars are spent to bolster brand awareness and drive sales. increasingly, advertising is digital as consumers spend more time on phones, computers and tablets. social platforms like facebook exploit user data for enormous profit, while all the user gets is a “free” product. there is an opportunity for users to reclaim a significant amount of this value, and in doing so realize a greater sense of worth.mission: to measure and honor the value of every individual.vision: corporations and individuals providing value directly for each other.product: a url shortening service for individuals to monetize the content they share. monetization occurs via an ad featured between the platform sharing the short url (e.g. facebook) and the site the short url takes the user to (the content being shared).
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ask hn: share an idea?
if you're like me, you often have a lot of ideas that you don't have the time or resources to execute on.<p>if so, why not write it down for your fellow hackers' enjoyment?<p>topics can be anything: product ideas, service ideas, blog post topics, stand up comedy skits, research initiatives you wish could get funded, etc.
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problem: advertising is a big industry. billions of dollars are spent to bolster brand awareness and drive sales. increasingly, advertising is digital as consumers spend more time on phones, computers and tablets. social platforms like facebook exploit user data for enormous profit, while all the user gets is a “free” product. there is an opportunity for users to reclaim a significant amount of this value, and in doing so realize a greater sense of worth.mission: to measure and honor the value of every individual.vision: corporations and individuals providing value directly for each other.product: a url shortening service for individuals to monetize the content they share. monetization occurs via an ad featured between the platform sharing the short url (e.g. facebook) and the site the short url takes the user to (the content being shared).
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1) an application that connects restaurant chefs and managers to local farmers. local farmers could upload their goods for the week on a marketplace board, and chefs could find things that they would like to cook with for the week and buy them. typically chefs meet local purveyors at farmer's markets, but for small enough producers, it would save them time and money to just have their goods bought directly without having to go to a central market and run a stand. chefs would be able to order local goods similar to the way they order through sysco or fsa.2) a dribble-like site for artisans. a site to showcase and upvote artisan work and hopefully drive business to them. baked goods, building airplanes, cedar strip canoe building, kinetic sculptures, etc.
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show hn: indented outline to graphviz
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it's pretty close to yaml; so you might as well use that.
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interesting but also prone to errors. subtopic one (in topic one) will be different as subtopic one (in topic two) in most real cases, probably. a clear example is scientific literature where each chapter could have a 'results' section, maybe with different subsection names.the reverse situation can be also a problem. 'subtopic one', 'subtopic one' and 'subtopic one' for example, are taken as three different nodes. this can either be good or bad.other problem is that your code generates a bad graph when you have a " in the infile. try it with: topic "two"
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show hn: indented outline to graphviz
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interesting but also prone to errors. subtopic one (in topic one) will be different as subtopic one (in topic two) in most real cases, probably. a clear example is scientific literature where each chapter could have a 'results' section, maybe with different subsection names.the reverse situation can be also a problem. 'subtopic one', 'subtopic one' and 'subtopic one' for example, are taken as three different nodes. this can either be good or bad.other problem is that your code generates a bad graph when you have a " in the infile. try it with: topic "two"
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there's a quite obvious need for a more elegant graph description syntax than dot language. preferably something simpler and easily remembered. i think this script is a step in the right direction, but obviously it only scratches the surface of what graphviz can do.the nice approach would be to take cue from html and separate content from presentation. as for syntax, something lightweight with as little braces/operators/interpunction as possible.
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show hn: indented outline to graphviz
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there's a quite obvious need for a more elegant graph description syntax than dot language. preferably something simpler and easily remembered. i think this script is a step in the right direction, but obviously it only scratches the surface of what graphviz can do.the nice approach would be to take cue from html and separate content from presentation. as for syntax, something lightweight with as little braces/operators/interpunction as possible.
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perhaps i should share my reason for creating this:i was reading (long) literature review and wanted to create a condensed outline of the topics while preserving the hierarchies. an indented list of keywords was a natural way to do this while reading. afterwards, i was interested in visualizing the result.
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show hn: indented outline to graphviz
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perhaps i should share my reason for creating this:i was reading (long) literature review and wanted to create a condensed outline of the topics while preserving the hierarchies. an indented list of keywords was a natural way to do this while reading. afterwards, i was interested in visualizing the result.
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can you share a pic of the output, for lazy people like me?
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