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yiedyieon The Pivot

TL;DR

> Internet is no longer a technology. The Internet is a psychology experiment.

yiedyieon NSA system to "complex" to stop from deleting lawsuit information

NSA: Our Systems Are So Complex We Can’T Stop Them From Deleting Evidence

yiedyieon Tell HN: The site was offline. What changed?

And the question for this answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7872121

yiedyieon Google Drive is down (502. That’s an error.)

Its loading... for a few minutes but doesn't work for me either. No error though.

Finally I have an error in a box: The server encountered an error. Please try again later.

Try again later, this doesn't inspire me of critical business reliability.

yiedyieon Russian hacker engineered worldwide crime spree

This is concerning in conjunction with the trend for a cashless society.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/australia...

yiedyieon The Internet Doesn't Love Anything. It Is Not a Human Being.

Remindes me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of...

yiedyieon Who Died in Beijing, And Why (1990) [pdf]

There were more than 1,000 foreign journalists in Beijing on the night of the army's final drive to clear Tiananmen [sic.] Square, and many of them followed the advance of the main Peopled Liberation Army (P.L.A.)assault force through the western suburbs as it plowed murderously through the crowds of laobaixing that formed at all points to block its path. Most of the foreign film footage of the massacre was shot in this sector of the city, in neighborhoods like Muxidi, Fuxingman and Liubukou, where hundreds of unarmed protesters and innocent bystanders were mowed down by random gunfire from semiautomatic weapons. The troops apparently made no distinction between these people and the small number who hurled stones, rocks and Molotov cocktails or set fire to vehicles that had been used as road-blocks. Since this main theater of the massacre was by and large well covered by the foreign news media, we will focus here on some lesser-known aspects of the action along western Changan and Fuxingmen subsequently dubbed "Blood Boulevard" by the people of Beijing.

I find this passage strangely familiar with Egypt, Syria, Ukraine or the early becoming of the Romanian revolution with whom I was very familiar. So this is pretty much about the Blood Boulevard than Tienanmen Square. Even the 1,400 soldiers 'shed their weapons and ran away' paragraph has recent echos.

After fifty days of occupation by the pro-democracy movement, the square had finally been "returned to the people." That would make Occupy Wall Street blush.

And last passage could serve as TL;DR

They exploit the fact that no one died during the clearing of Tiananmen Square to conceal the truth that some deaths and injuries did occur there earlier. And they use the fact that there was no bloodbath in Tiananmen Square to cover up the truth about the bloodbaths in Muxidi, Nanchizi and Liubukou. Why do we give them such an opportunity?"

Interesting read.

yiedyieon (Why) I quit Hacker News (2010)

I recently sent them an email about a thing I really find frustrating at HN:

Hi all,

I use a lot HN a lot and too often I receive this error:

You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.

The most frustrating part is that I receive it after I submit the link, wouldn't be elegant to have a status icon or label that would signal that my account status is available for submitting. This way I will not submit stories in vain

  Thanks,

and got no answer.

yiedyieon Does Ubuntu Touch consume less than Android?

A comparison between linux and android in general( has a chapter on power management) but its obsolete and doesn't have any benchmarks:

http://handycodeworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/linux_v...

yiedyieon Do Porn Watchers Have Smaller Brain?

This study was discussed at YC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7815988

yiedyieon Write a program that makes 2 + 2 = 5

JavaScript ;)

http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/29944/12328

yiedyieon Obsession engineers: Mind control the Candy Crush way [paywall]

I agree with you, I really tried to find another article citing this or similar article but couldn't find so I put it like that.

yiedyieon Ask HN: why Baidu cloud can offer me 2To when I register and not Dropbox?

To oversimplify, either Dropbox is too greedy or they have grater costs per GB than the Chinese companies.

yiedyieon Python 3 is killing Python

Python 3 is not killing Python just competes for resources. Python 2 will be around until 2019 and a lot of things can happen in 5 years.

yiedyieon Wikipedia: We’ve won. Now what?

Encarta gave up arms, and Britannica is struggling. Wikipedia is more accurate and rapid than a random search, but it definitely should not be the last word on any matter but rather be a starting point to familiarize with terms and what to search for, and that is the best way any encyclopedia can be anyway, a starting point.

I also love that there are at least 2 solutions for offline use:

http://www.wikitaxi.org/delphi/doku.php/products/wikitaxi/in...

http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Main_Page

yiedyieon Paul Ehrlich Predicts Cannibalism, Plot Finally And Irretrievably Lost

The question is will it happen everywhere or be localized, I doubt that it could happen world-wide, but in some parts it could happen it happened before and could happen again.

Anyway a lot of scientist become extremist and can become scary. If history can tell something is that even the besto of scientists are bad prophets.

yiedyieon W3Fools – A W3Schools Intervention

Also I guess it was very difficult for W3fools people to keep this up, it was a pointless effort, improving parts of W3Schools and thus working against their general message.

yiedyieon W3Fools – A W3Schools Intervention

Another issue is that when you search about Web 2.0 (HTML, CSS JavaScript, etc), W3Schools comes among the first hits, and they have very poor examples.

The OP site used to document this but this was not a solution since W3School just fixed those issues.

Check this bad examples from Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20130430052445/http://w3fools.co...

yiedyieon [dead]

Recursive, how? I will vote up, unfortunately, I cannot up-vote recursively.

yiedyieon When AES(☢) = ☠ – a crypto-binary trick

Base64 is not true encryption, it doesn't require a key it is merely obfuscation.

yiedyieon China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers

sorry, cybernetic spying issues, I meant

yiedyieon China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers

@unicornporn, Agree, I wanted to use it as a solution and I was not able to find it.

yiedyieon China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers

Maybe because they've fixed XP for their security concerns: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/qihoo-360-announces-...

yiedyieon China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers

Given the recent issues between the two governments on cybernetic issues, I guess its sensible for MS to discuss it first home and then react. That would slow the reaction a bit.

yiedyieon I'm About as Good as Dead: The End of Xah Lee

I anything this story tells is how much hacker need to adapt to business as usual. So much for the power to change.

yiedyieon Stackexchange network is down.

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So there are some issues

yiedyieon Oops Something Bad Happened – Stack Exchange has intermittent issues

yiedyieon Rat Park drug experiment cartoon

It would be interesting to replicate the experiment with this in mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7662464

yiedyieon Rat Park drug experiment cartoon

The research you mentioned specifies in the abstract a probable cause for failing to replicate the same conditions for the experiment: It is possible that during a colony conversion the supplier inadvertently introduced strain differences making the present rats more resistant to xenobiotic consumption.

In my opinion this tells a lot.

BTW: There are other researchers that replicated similar results on similar experiments too: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11072395?dopt=Abstract

So is better to see all the experiments to avoid bias.

yiedyieon Today at 16:53:20 GMT, it'll be 1400000000 in Unix time.

You meant internet as we know it.