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tjaerv··on Reporting From the Web’s Underbelly
I assume you're being sarcastic. The other alternative is vastly ignorant.
tjaerv··on Reporting From the Web’s Underbelly
http://filmingcops.com/cops-execute-80-yr-old-man-in-his-own...
tjaerv··on 'House of Cards' characters are too competent to be believable
"I wish things were that ruthlessly efficient," President Barack Obama has said of Netflix's original series, House of Cards: "It's like Kevin Spacey, man, this guy's getting a lot of stuff done."
tjaerv··on GCC and LLVM developers to begin collaborating?
Also reported on at Phoronix: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTU5Njk
tjaerv··on The Post-Hope Politics of ‘House of Cards’
"'The West Wing' arrived in 1999 as a televised fantasy of what we wished our government could be. 'House of Cards' arrived in 2013 as a nightmare of what we fear our government has become. [...] The politicians in 'House of Cards' [are] morally bankrupt and endlessly opportunistic. The show is no cri de coeur, but a cold dissection of the post-Obama (or post-the-Obama-many-hoped-they’d-elected), post-hope political landscape. It's a vision of American government not as we wish it were, but as we secretly fear it is."
tjaerv··on [dead]
"You can see the entire problem set online, thanks to the U.S. Library of Congress, which recently digitized and posted course materials from this and one other class Sagan taught, at Cornell University. [...] Sagan may have been best known for his popular science books and TV show, Cosmos, but he also taught college classes for three decades."
tjaerv··on Ask HN: How to learn OpenCL
You might wish to check out the University of Illinois's "Heterogeneous Parallel Programming" course, offered through Coursera:

https://www.coursera.org/course/hetero

The course is already currently ongoing, but it's not too late to enroll. The course is mainly focused on CUDA (since it's easier to learn, the professor believes), but covers OpenCL as well.

tjaerv··on Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triumph_of_the_Nerds
tjaerv··on The NSA: An Inside View
It doesn't even have to be on the level of COINTELPRO. See here:

> The history of the FBI Lab hasn't been without controversy. Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, who joined the FBI in 1982 and served as a Supervisory Special Agent at the Lab from 1986 to 1998, blew the whistle on scientific misconduct at the Lab. In a subsequent investigation, it was found that evidence had been falsified, altered, or suppressed, or that FBI agents had testified falsely, in as many as 10,000 cases, resulting in many false convictions. More than a decade later, cases were still being overturned because of this massive fraud.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Laboratory#Controversy

tjaerv··on Crime Lab Scandal Leaves Massachusetts Legal System In Turmoil
Previously: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Laboratory#Controversy
tjaerv··on Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden
Exactly.
tjaerv··on Vote Now: Who Should Be Time's Person of the Year? Edward Snowden
Ended up not voting because they are asking for way too many Twitter OAuth privileges (including following and posting with my account, plus updating my profile).
tjaerv··on Ask HN: Where do you spend Bitcoins?
I buy all my domain names at Namecheap.com with bitcoin.
tjaerv··on Software Gems: The Computer History Museum Historical Source Code Series
A better title would have been "Apple II DOS source code".
tjaerv··on The new skull from Dmanisi
John Hawks will also be teaching a course at Coursera starting next January: https://www.coursera.org/course/humanevolution
tjaerv··on Bitcoin heading towards $200, new bubble forming
Editorialized title much?
tjaerv··on Stone Age hunter-gatherers lived beside farmers, didn't interbreed
Obligatory link to Jared Diamond's classic essay "The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race":

http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html

tjaerv··on Akaros - open source, GPL-licensed operating system for manycore architectures
The license. (GPL vs BSD.)
tjaerv··on Why US government IT fails so hard, so often
Thanks for that, I had no idea.
tjaerv··on Why US government IT fails so hard, so often
Surprised they didn't mention the all-time fiasco of the FBI's disastrous $170M Virtual Case File project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Case_File
tjaerv··on Open source is brutal: an interview with Google's Chris DiBona
Anyone have a reference for the mentioned "you once called open source 'brutal'"? Googling it now is polluted with reposts of the current article.
tjaerv··on Archive of all Silk Road forum posts attributed to Dread Pirate Roberts
Indeed. And particularly so when the agency making the allegations has an established track record of lying in order to secure convictions. Witness:

> The history of the FBI Lab hasn't been without controversy. Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, who joined the FBI in 1982 and served as a Supervisory Special Agent at the Lab from 1986 to 1998, blew the whistle on scientific misconduct at the Lab. In a subsequent investigation, it was found that evidence had been falsified, altered, or suppressed, or that FBI agents had testified falsely, in as many as 10,000 cases, resulting in many false convictions. More than a decade later, cases were still being overturned because of this massive fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Laboratory#Controversy

tjaerv··on Income tax centennial: 100 years of income tax code
Another perspective: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/income-tax-centu...
tjaerv··on FBI Says It's Busted The Web's Biggest Anonymous Drug Black Market
The article has been edited since it was originally posted. The paragraph in question now reads:

> “This is supposed to be some invisible black market bazaar. We made it visible,” says an FBI spokesperson, who asked not to be named. “When you interviewed [Ulbricht], he said he would never be arrested. But no one is beyond the reach of the FBI. We will find you.”

tjaerv··on FreeBSD Is No Longer Building GCC By Default
This recent presentation from the 2013 European LLVM Conference outlines the optimization issues LLVM still suffers from, making the produced binaries up to ~10% slower than with GCC for some use cases:

http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-04/#talk3

tjaerv··on FreeBSD Is No Longer Building GCC By Default
I, too, would be interested in watching this presentation. Would you happen to have a link to it?
tjaerv··on Why You Can’t Travel Back in Time and Kill Hitler
"One of the bylaws of the International Association of Time Travelers states that you can't kill Hitler. The problem is, everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. This leaves more experienced time travelers the onerous task of undoing the historical edits of n00bs."

http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/08/wikihistory

tjaerv··on Speculation on "BULLRUN"
Upstream source: http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2013-Septembe...
tjaerv··on London student reported to police: “Enchanted by anarchism and individualism”
Is this satire? It reads like satire.

"I must do something. In the last year he has become more and more enchanted by antiestablishment ways of thinking and has even said that there is an inherent risk that every government is corrupt."

tjaerv··on The Temple Operating System
Why not simply use virtualization? Whether QEMU, Bochs, or VirtualBox?
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