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__john··on Data on 7% of Americans Were Just Hacked, Now What?
Spot on, most software gets disapproved simply for being open source or liberally licensed. Although recently I've found that it's easier to get open source software on my computer if I can prove that it already exists somewhere else on our network (i.e. we use Redhat servers which come with Python pre-installed after I pointed that out getting Python on my personal box wasn't much of an issue)
__john··on Data on 7% of Americans Were Just Hacked, Now What?
You might be interested in The Circle by Dave Eggers.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18302455-the-circle

__john··on Show HN: A Python with Hindley-Milner-like type annotations, compiling to C
Now if we could just get an emacs written in Python =).
__john··on Levenshtein automata can be simple and fast
Can someone explain what a DFA is?

Edit: DFA stands for deterministic finite automaton.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_finite_automaton

__john··on DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillance news broke
A google search turns up Paoli, Pennsylvania =)

https://duck.co/help/company/hiring

__john··on Bluntly: Serverless, NAT-breaking P2P with public keys and BitTorrent DHT
>no servers or IP knowledge involved

when you say this you're not talking about bittorrent-dht's bootstrap nodes right[1]?

[1]https://github.com/feross/bittorrent-dht/blob/497d1e08f5bc06...

__john··on The next generation of spreadsheets will be a database
I can totally see this, as it is our analysts use Toad for Oracle and directly edit tables through that. There is a "data view" that looks quite similar to excel.
__john··on Robinhood raises $50M
If I understand it correctly robinhood makes their money on the spreads[0] they offer (see point number 3). So much so that in many cases it's better to use a broker like interactive brokers or etrade.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6907334

__john··on The Shut-In Economy
I'm pretty sure you can change the privacy setting associated with the day/month and leave the year public.
__john··on New Machine Can See Bones, Organs in Stunning Detail
tumblr is blocked where I work, here's an imgur link of the image in question http://imgur.com/9XZgzGv
__john··on CERN Particle Clicker
My version was

    var target = document.getElementByID("detector-events");

    setInterval(function(){target.click();}, 100);
I think I like yours better though.
__john··on In secret cyberwar game, reservist techies pummel miltary cyberwarriors
I more or less agree just some minor clarifications/nitpicks > Officers got through OTS not BMT > Reserve physical requirements are the same as Active duty requirements > The Air Force's cyber warfare career field is called 1B4[1]

[1] http://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/saf_cio_a6/pu...

__john··on In secret cyberwar game, reservist techies pummel miltary cyberwarriors
In the Air Force you get a yearly Enlisted Performance Report or Officer Performance Report. Your OPR/EPR counts towards your promotion, and one of the sections of the OPR/EPR is how well you meet PT standards. Fail a PT test and you get a referral OPR/EPR, then you can pretty much kiss your military career goodbye.
__john··on In secret cyberwar game, reservist techies pummel miltary cyberwarriors
You can get extra money for all kinds of things. Knowing another language, certain career fields (i.e. special forces and contracting) still have re-enlistment bonuses, etc. etc. None of the "cyber" career fields, in the Air Force at least, get any sort of extra money that I'm aware of.
__john··on In secret cyberwar game, reservist techies pummel miltary cyberwarriors
So I can off some first hand perspective here.

>Do the military "cyberwarriors" even have local admin rights on their machines?

We don't, hell I don't even have access to some of the basic tools I need (i.e. version control)

>Hackers don't sign up for active duty military.

They do, I've met the smartest people I know in the military . The hacker types never stay though they either get kicked out because they don't want to put up with the bullshit or separate after their first enlistment and quadruple their salary.

Basically the problem with the military is that they won't (or can't) pay enough to retain any of the talent they have and are unwilling to compensate for the low salary by changing the "culture" they've developed over the last century.

__john··on Amazon’s Scorpion Problem
Do you have a source or some insight you could share as to when a company should move away from AWS? A quick google search turns up $1000 per square foot[1] for a buidling a datacenter. There's also a nice discussion on reddit[2], but there's no talk of cost. I think this is an interesting economics? problem and would like to hear more on it if anyone has the time.

[1]http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=920078 [2]http://redd.it/16m9pq

__john··on Ask HN: What project would you work on if you had half a year of free time?
What's wrong with g+, facebook, instagram, snapchat? I'm not saying they're perfect, just wondering how you would improve on them?
__john··on Bucardo 5, async replication for PostgreSQL with true multi-master
It doesn't look like they've updated their changelog page yet http://bucardo.org/wiki/Bucardo/Changes . Does anyone know where a list of changes can be gotten?
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