skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. This was not a security vulnerability; this was just a poor product decision made by Facebook (that had major privacy implications). The phrasing of their update a few weeks later supports that it was a conscious product decision since the beginning.

This developer highlighted a privacy issue with Facebook's product with a public proof of concept - it's no different than other proofs of concept built by the EFF et al. Facebook decided to react to it by being idiots, but that's not too surprising anymore from their behalf.
This topic keeps coming up.

We have recruiters (basically agents for employers) because our industry has excess supply of positions and insufficient demand for these positions. Since we can relatively easily go find another job, it doesn't make sense for us to pay someone to help us look.

For a contrary example - actors have agents because their industry has a small supply of jobs, and high demand for acting jobs. And so they benefit from paying an agent to help them find what few jobs there are.
The full list of ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Courses is here:

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2776880&picked=prox&CFID=7...

But in some cases, the pdf files from the ACM just provide links to other sites (like the submitted link to selfshadow.com).
I never took the "cord" in cord cutting to be quite so literal.

What I hope (and of course it's not by any means a done deal) is that the content producers are going to be coming out from under the control of those who own the last mile distribution.

That's why net neutrality is so important. If HBO has to ask permission of Time Warner for me to access HBO Now then we've gained nothing. With it, we can expect more competition, variety and choice of content.

I hope.
Ask HN: Best way to learn computer/programming theory without college?
Having never done well in college, I did not complete my degree when I was there.

I'm curious about the best way that other people have found to learn theory or ideas that have made them way better programmers. Especially things they have done on their own time, or at least outside of college.

I've built complex systems and user interfaces, but I couldn't tell you about quick-sort algorithms, or sieves, or the best way to build a fibonacci sequence; I wonder if my programming is objectively worse because of it.
But in a case of property dispute, this contradicts what you said about the mind of the victim not mattering. If I am in your house and believe that the playstation is mine and walk out with it. Weather or not it is a crime is entirely dependent on what you believe about ownership of the playstation. Entirely on "whether or not the victim feels they were wronged".
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The only APIs called from Java are implemented in Java, even if they are just a layer over a JNI. So the questions about Oracle having IP rights in those implementations are the same as for other software.

How did Google act like assholes? Android has the same Apache license as the base class and other library implementations they used, which had been open source for many years at that time.

I am not assuming the answer to what's being litigated. I am pointing out that if Oracle has an IP interest in something inside an Android device, it also has exceptionally dangerous and disruptive IP claims all over the place, including things like Scala and all code written in the Java language.

Regarding your example about runtime environments: No, I don't see how inventing a language, which is generally not protectable, and someone inventing a different runtime for a language should make anyone think their IP has been ripped off.
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I'm willing to put my money on credit, after the subprime mortgage bubble burst in '08 lenders are a lot tighter on who qualifies for a mortgage, even for FHA loans. Since there's a rather large number of people who have no choice but to rent right now due to credit it's very much a sellers market, especially in Boise where I live as it's been a hot target for people moving from more expensive areas to 'invest' in the rental market.

You used to be able to find a nice 3-bedroom house for around $800-900/mo here, now that's jumped to $1000-1300 unless you want to live in some really seedy areas of town. And a lot of this is because these 'investors' want to make a profit ASAP, rental housing used to be a long-term investment, which paid minimal returns until the property was paid off - now we have a bunch of people wanting to make their $600/mo right off the bat.
> The moral of the story is never upset your employer.

How did you arrive at that conclusion? Losing an internship at Facebook isn't exactly the end of the world.

> Being right doesn't matter.

It does to some people, some of the time. Jobs come and go, and you can't always control that. But you can control your own principles, integrity and dignity.
Sure it depends on the region.

I live in the Midwest along the supercharge path. The mall by me has 3 or 4 supercharge stations, which I think is approximately 4x the number of teslas owners living in my city.

About half the time all 4 stalls are empty, about half the time I see 1 car.

Which is "good" in that people on a long trip can get their charge on without having to wait in line. I suspect if I lived in town and drove a Tesla, I would use it a little more often for the free power ;)

Maybe just adding a $5 charge cost would be enough to balance out supply and demand? $5 a tank is still a good deal on a long trip, but hardly worth going out of my way to do (when I can charge for $2 at home)
They says "secure" but it's trusting the website to not deliver malicious JS. Also trusting the numerous third party domains that javascript is included from (and if you block them the entire thing breaks).
> they're leaving their users in their wake.

The jump to Ember.js 2.0 involves API changes, but I see no reason why the majority of application will not move forward.

Your experience sounds very painful, but many Ember applications, even ones that are over two years old, have already made it onto 2.0. That is not meant to trivialize your pains, but just to challenge the idea that we're leaving people behind.

Ember's 2.0 strategy is specifically designed to ensure as many people get to 2.x as possible. That is our goal. I'm rather proud of the number of mature, long-living codebases build with Ember that continue to progress with us.

> I'm just not sure what you are supposed to do if you want to build a multi-year project with modern frameworks in 2015. My current suggestion is that we don't

That is an option. The web, and single-page applications, offer unique advantages but like any platform also come with limitations. Companies like Yahoo, LinkedIn, Zendesk, Twitch, Bustle, and many others have placed big bets on this architecture though, and use it successfully.
You definitely got the point.
> not even something we have the capabilities of doing.

Today.

> And we have no interest in that.

Today.
The funny thing is they actually stream the local broadcasts (you choose which one you want) and then cut out the commercials. If they showed the commercials I don't see how it's different than watching locally on TV, except there's even more money involved because you paid a lot more than the carriage fee for MLB.tv.

It's even a nice compliment to watching it on TV because you can watch on a mobile device. ESPN lets you stream stuff if you have a cable subscription, but you can't stream local games with MLB.tv regardless of your cable subscription.
I have a really hard time understanding how "enterprises" are going to upgrade to Windows 10.

An operating system that is sending random internal data to random places on the internet seems to violate both a wide selection of national laws related to data privacy, and many corporate policies relating to trade secrets, privacy, internal operations and so on.

Microsoft must have thought of this. What's their plan for continuing to sell to these customers?
Reminds me of this from Dave Chapelle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLdim8hWR44
Indeed. This occurs with rockets, too. One of my favorite pictures is one of a Saturn V going supersonic. See here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_cone#Gallery

As that gallery shows, the same effect is in play with nuclear explosions (and any significantly large explosion, really)
Look. Seriously.

I don't want to be a brat, but what is the possible overlap between people caring to use Tor (for whatever reason) and people using Windows 10 as the host OS ?

You're at the absolute cutting edge of spyware-in-the-home, defective by design, obscured infrastructure that was designed from the ground up to be user hostile in every conceivable dimension. And you're going to run Tor on that.

There's a phrase for this and that phrase is "clown college".
I think it's not really advisable to do that, for privacy reasons:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9112717

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9893561

Also your CDN'ing clients could serve different content, giving some of your visitors a random surprise...
I would point out you can map a directory to a running container and just have the process reload the files, instead of having to rebuild the entire container. Rebuilding the container can be a long process.
I'm intrigued, can you detail the impacts you see?
Don't forget your house, its value is dependent on the local economy, which could be tied to your employer. If you own a house in a town that is largely employed by ACME, and you work there, and you invest your money in ACME, if ACME goes under you lose your job, your retirement savings, and potentially the value of your home.
>> What are the underlying reasons for the disparity between rental and home ownership costs?

Massive implicit and explicit government distortions in favor of home ownership. Starting with the type of mortgage available in the US and virtually nowhere else (i.e. 30 year fixed rate, no prepayment penalty, 10-20% down, and in some states no recourse -- all at less than 100 bps over the risk free rates), continuing with an even more comprehensive version of the infamous Greenspan put for equities, and big tax incentives.
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EULA, ToS, etc do not apply in Europe if they contain terms that the user can not reasonably expect.

An OS sharing all your data even with snooping disabled falls under this regulation, and multiple EU data privacy officials are already investigating and preparing a case.
Think of it as old fashioned capitalism - they raise more capital in the capital market and spend the money on physical capital (plant and stuff) which pays for itself. The capital is not diluted it just changes from money to physical form.

Dilution happens when you issue more ownership of a limited resource.

In practise it is not quite so simple, which is why often capital raisings were issued to shareholders as rights to buy into capital raisings, which could be sold and other means, because control is dilutable as a limited resource.
you can authenticate the content to prevent that
You could not be more wrong. They're still very easy to use, and way easier and less confusing than Android. The gestures for swiping between full screen apps are the same on the mac and iPad. They're both 4 fingers. And if you can fit 4 fingers on a magic mouse, I commend you because it's so small!

I really don't see how they're getting harder to use. And I help people with it all the time, and what I hear all the time is, "wow that actually makes sense." It's the logical way.

So, I completely disagree and I'd be willing to say the majority would also agree.
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> Publishing an extension to the Chrome Web Store that lets anyone exploit the bug is NOT the responsible way for anyone to "highlight" a security issue unless normal channels have repeatedly failed

I think that's the core behind responsible disclosure. If I was management at facebook - I would be perfectly fine if he published a paper about it after we patched the bug (in fact I would encourage him to do it) - but not create an exploit allowing N number of people to use it then tell me about it.

Edit: changing point of view

If someone told me about an exploit in one of my sites - I might even pay him a small reward.

There is of course those who are completely out of touch with reality and completely ignore legit issues. Never forget the Super Meat Boy incident of 2010 [1]. That has actually made me stop playing their games - because it makes me uneasy to think they were sitting in the kitchen table or office and thinking "it would be a great idea if we connected directly a MySQL server to query custom level data!" - and not at least find someone to bounce that off of to wonder why other people aren't doing that.

[1] http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&thr...
Google tried it (search for Google ITA PSS).
But it wasn't a security vulnerability.
There is a kernel, Docker uses the host's kernel it runs on.
According to your [1], their GAAP operating loss per vehicle is $14,758.
Running three hours of Ruby tests in under three minutes
sounds like you work for getfirststep
> Are you suggesting that a Windows desktop makes for a better development environment than a Linux one?

I've used Windows and Linux since 2006.

I've yet to understand what makes Linux a better development environment. When I have a choice (or barring other factors, like the portably-sized Linux VM I'm using for a personal project, which would probably be much bigger if a WIndows VM), I use Windows for development.

Can you elaborate on what makes Linux a better development environment? Most Linux tools run fine on Windows (though I believe Git is perpetually behind on Windows; I personally prefer Mercurial, for other reasons, which doesn't have that problem), and I think Ruby is also usually behind as well, but I can't really think of anything else. On the other hand, Windows has Visual Studio exclusively. If it's about the command line, Powershell has so far sufficed for development purposes(and sometimes pleased), though I'm much better in bash.
> If I don't know what it's doing, how can I trust it?

It's not enough to examine software: if you don't trust the company, then anything they say or promise is worthless. Automatic updates can change anything, including the TOS! This is the same company that sells a 1984-Telescreen (XBox) with an always-on camera and microphone. _NSA shouldn't be forgotten.

Oracle likes to tout Java as GPL, but what does that matter when we know the company can't be trusted? Who controls a software project is the key, not the licenses or corporate promises. There's no point in trusting iOS because we've examined it, we also have to trust Apple.
ok its not COMPLETELY free (I've been using the iOS app for a while and I get about 3 cents for about every trade for taxes).
You can take the Eurovision Song Contest as example.

Millions of people watching via livestream, overall (including TV), the largest annual TV event (197 million overall)

Livestreaming scales very nicely horizontally, if done properly.

And this is an event that is completely done without any ads or commercial investor backing it.
Any suggestions as to how? (Serious question)
Why do you think so? The entire world is going trough an increase in government size and interference, and a reduction on unions power.

This is not a US-only phenomenon.
Privacy is a cluster concept. Implicitly, it includes the idea of constraints on others. The most effective constraint is that others simply don't care and that's most of what privacy boils down to accept in a few corner cases covered by legislation and the existence of legislation implies that in those cases others do indeed care and hence the legal restraint.

It is clear that Stallman was and is right in regards to the technical dimensions. It's not like we can go back to the time when email was private. STMP never was, that's why Stallman chose his course so long ago. Email is more private today thanks to STMPS. The same is true for HTTP/HTTPS. But even in the old days, there was nothing to prevent someone from publishing your love letters in the school newspaper. It was just more difficult.

Privacy generally breaks into security or anonymity. The issues surround either authorization and identification. Both have always been mostly limited by interest more than anything else. Computers have reduced the cost of being interested and so long as we use computers the djinn isn't going back in lamp.
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$20MM USD is about half a percent of Mr. Musk's holdings...

TSLA is like Bitcoin; no news is bad news.
Do you really want to run 20 year-old software?

Yes.
>Apple is a software company that also creates hardware for their software to run on.

You sure about that?
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This course will be yesterday.
I forgot to mention, it's 20% less with a 15 year mortgage. A 30yr mortgage would have made it closer to 40% less than renting.
Agreed. Windows 7 is still a current Microsoft product and I don't think Microsoft is expecting the bulk of enterprises to move until 2020, if not later.

And since Windows 10 is to a large extent a move into remote PC management, Microsoft obviously wants to manage them with as much info as possible. Telemetry is the quid pro quo for free upgrades for the life of the device.

The handful of geeks (somewhat less than a billion users) who are capable of managing their own systems obviously don't like this. However...

> the negative initial reaction they've been receiving in recent weeks

Public interest has been phenomenal, the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive, and most people seem to be very happy with it.
You can easily avoid "surprise" by hashing content, but malicious clients still will be able to delay content load.
It's nice but it kinda hints that GAAP is "the right thing", which is a bit too optimistic IMO.
Thanks for the comment. It is something we need to look into a bit more. Generally we haven't seen the capacitors be the limiting factor in lifetime, but they might be in extremely hot situations. I'll do some more work on getting a definite answer here so we can be more careful/specific about our claims in the future.
I'm a bit skeptical, as the author seems to be comparing to languages which are rarely used for teaching children. Comparing "go run" to makefiles, for instance, indicates that Go might be easier to teach that C, which isn't saying much. If the author was previously using a different language and it took the children 30 minutes to complete a simple task which now takes only 20 minutes with Go, that sounds great but perhaps there are other languages even better suited to teaching where they would pick it up in 5 minutes. Specifically, most of the points raised in favor of Go could be applied to Python, which seems to be the most common teaching language right now. I would be interested to know if there are reasons Go is a better teaching language than Python.
#6 - make sure you completely read and understand what your paying for.

Earlier this year, I was trying to plan a migration from Rackspace to AWS - brought a database server online at AWS on par with the size of ours at Rackspace and did some testing (to try to simulate a real world scenario). Got distracted by some other projects for a few weeks and all of a sudden comes a bill from AWS for almost a grand - we "didn't even use it"

Fortunately, as a 1 time courtesy, they credited it back, but the boss was definitely not happy, haha.

Be very careful what you turn on and what size it is.

Rackspace, is a bit more clear on pricing IMO.
Capital should also be in a race to the bottom, and has a lower bottom than wages because it has no cost of living.

The only thing that does not race is rent.
Blog post was updated, looks like one of the tricks is the pixel local storage GLES extension is a core feature on vulkan.
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A moral distinction between two lying, deceitful crooks? I really don't see a difference, no.

Well, I suppose Hillary is a lot smarter about avoiding getting caught ... except even that doesn't fit. She's been caught numerous times, like her husband (the nickname "Slick Willie" came about for a reason, after all). But when she gets caught, various powers that be somehow make it a non-issue.
The news is not that they will have the exclusive rights for 9 months. After all, kids can watch the same episode over and over and not get tire of it. The important thing is this:

>The “Sesame Street” episodes now available on Amazon and Netflix will no longer be on those outlets because of the HBO deal.
Given that it is proven that the NSA spied on European companies for economic reasons, this isn't a good idea. Now the NSA can just tap into Microsoft, either covertly or through court order, and spy on the whole world.

Details of economic spying -- may not be the best article but the easiest to find:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/nsa-spied-on-french-economy...
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If one can master all this, wouldn't it be easier to use a non-Windows box in the first place?
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The Art of Computer Programming.

Knuth coined the term "computer science". I won't claim it made be a better programmer, but it couldn't have made me worse.
OP here: This explains my obsession for building widgets and little robots to my wife.
I wrote a PowerShell script that enables or disables various Windows 10 tracking components.

https://github.com/nathan-alden/windows-10-tracking

I based the script on the https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking repository, but the code in that repository is Python and compiles to a Windows executable. I much prefer PowerShell so that the code can be more easily changed and deployed in automated environments. Additionally, that Python code doesn't undo changes, whereas my PowerShell script does.

I'd appreciate any feedback (probably as a GitHub issue).
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I don't and never have done for personal use.

I literally have an IMAP box and nothing else.
The "I am not a crook" phrase (however it was stated) actually wasn't on my mind.

There are a large number of Hillary supporters that, even if they are shown proof of criminal activity, simply won't care. Not a bit. Thus their thought process is, "Sure, she's a crook ... but all politicians are crooks, and she's on OUR team, so she gets our support."
Yes, but why can’t the camera do it continuously? Film at 240fps and provide a 60fps output with 10bit color depth.
Thank you.

Javascript is required to view and upload files.

No, it is definitely not.
There are a lot of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) nowadays that offer CS theory. For example, Coursea has an algorithm class available (https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI).

MIT also offers classes as well (http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm).
> Assange is claiming they can talk to him any time

The closest I can see to this is:

> From the beginning I offered simple solutions. Come to the embassy to take my statement or promise not to send me to the United States.

which doesn't contradict the Swedes saying they've tried and failed. I guess you can argue that it's disingenuous.
The problem is that it is not an user friendly solution. It will only help those people who do have several OS running or are capable of understanding.

The privacy settings that do not work were pretty good hidden already and many are scared away already. This second level is even worse.

What we need is a simple tool where you set check boxes to fix it all. That would be a solution for the target audience.