skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, no matter what the user-agent string, I am not able to view this without Javascript.

Precluding cautious web users from reading is somewhat ironic given that this article is about web security, if indeed that is what this is about. It's probably not intentional, just oversight on Forbes' part.
When you call something a complete failure without also mentioning that other OSes are also considered complete failures by the same standard, it seems a little one-sided.
I was saying that the author didn't do a good job of being clear (which is often by design in these sorts of articles-- clear language is seen as anti-artful) so I tried to assemble a summary of what he's actually saying on my own.
The wheels of the legal system turn so much slower than the fierce competition and relentless change of technology markets. By the time this is resolved in the courts, Google probably won't even be dominant in search / ads anymore -- just like Microsoft lost its stranglehold on the browser market before the antitrust case was resolved.
Make yourself a script file called 'RenHosts.bat'[1] and place it somewhere convenient, I personally have mine pinned to the start menu. This allows you to "easily" turn your modified HOSTS file on/off.

You'll need to right click and run the script as Administrator since it is accessing your System32 folder.

[1]http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hostsfaq.htm#Rename
SA is dead and YTMND was never more than a flash in the pan. Vine and Twitter are certainly more important today but reddit and instagram have a serious dearth of original content. The best they can hope for is internal drama and popularizing stuff 4chan came up with.
Test Yourself: 5 Questions from an 8th-Grade Math Test
Google Spell Check, WordCount, and Wrap Plus for docs.

LLVM for IR highlighting, Rust for Rust highlighting.

I've tried racer in the past but it just doesn't scale with the current compiler architecture. I'm hoping the ongoing refactoring work will get us a great incremental/parallel/continuous compilation system for autocomplete/red-squigglies.

My two biggest pains are: "trivial" errors (syntax, typos, etc) which I ideally would just see as red squigglies as I go (not a compile-fail loop); and the absolute lack of any kind of incremental compilation (which paired with the community's over-use of generics is super painful for codegen time).
That is actually mentioned in the article.
really great. so simple but immediately entertaining.
What exactly is a "better human being" ?
$5B in 2016. And one can see Uber growing 10 times bigger.
I actually ran a chan: so I think I kind of understand, a little bit. The one I ran is small, chilled-out, and pretty social (well, for a chan). Those two particular storms didn't really wash upon our shores much. There were however still disagreements about moderation policies (we were far from perfect, but we tried to strike a balance between freedom of speech and not being a platform for arseholes). There was someone who had their own opinions about how the site should be run, up to and including trying (albeit failing) to dox me (!); the odd DDoS attack; and, spammers trying to advertise some really horrible stuff (which I expeditiously deleted and passed onto law enforcement - anti-spam on a chan which has a very low barrier to casual entry is quite a technical challenge).

I eventually decided I simply didn't have the time to continue running it myself; the legal risk is also highly significant (I'm in the UK…), and I'm quite happy that part is no longer my problem, and it all seems to have landed on its feet. I still post there sometimes.

It's very different culturally-speaking to other mediums, but there's considerable variation between different chans, and between different boards on a chan (especially with a huge one like 4chan). It's fascinating how much the medium shapes the culture of a discussion environment. 4chan's perception of anonymity is often relevant to the discourse, in that the removal of persistent identity is thought to remove ego (and karma-whoring) from the equation. I don't think the disinhibition of anonymity/psuedonymity is necessarily a negative thing overall; and yes, lots of other, more mainstream sites, even those with "real name" policies, have unwittingly been platforms for just as bad, and worse.

Managing a site with the size, activity, and sheer wildness of 4chan must have been quite a ride. I can't imagine the full scale, but I think I get part of the general picture, and I just don't know how moot handled it. I don't think even moot knows how he handled it! That part I get. One person can only do so much, and I appreciate his efforts.
No, it should be online. Just tried and it loads ok for me... Are you getting an error or anything?
They used LXC until they realized it was pretty flaky, yes. Then they realized that all it was is just a thin veneer around linux kernel namespaces and control groups, which they could easily write in golang. So they wrote libcontainer :)
I'm surprised that they left out Tomoyo as a MAC option. I thought it had a decent following.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOMOYO_Linux
If it's a shopping search, you can go directly to Amazon and many people do.
A lovely little game with no instructions. Seems to be working out a bit better for you than it did for me (http://luciangames.com/oware).
Yeah, because it's not as if people like Mark Zuckerberg or Taylor Swift have any influence on the world today.
But they will have a hard time gaining broad support under if the action carries the banner of an individual like Michael Brown, who had just robbed a store and was charging the officer.

After trying to grab the officer's handgun and getting shot in the hand at contact range for his troubles.

One note about our sad history with American Indians is that you can't separate that history with a number of them deciding to side with the French in what we call the French and Indian Wars, the American theater of the Seven Years war (which among other things trained a core of officers who lead in the American Revolution, including Washington; it's not generally realized that the men opposing the British at Lexington and Concord were vastly more experienced). After that there was no way it wouldn't end in tears.
AA is a rockstar programmer, I'd imagine he isn't too short on cash and wouldn't have any problem finding a job in a big company if he decides to.
I just turned off all notifications on desktop and phone except direct messages, and instances of (my n6me/my name) anywhere else. So I only get notified if somebody wants something from me personally.
>The guy did grab a bunch of documents and flee the country. He may have been doing the right thing but I cannot find fault in US authorities trying to get him back in the immediate aftermath of the leak. It is not for law enforcement or junior diplomats to decide these matters. Someone running with documents is always to be stopped. Pardoning is a matter for the executive rather than agencies or the diplomatic corps.

What you described is law. He clearly broke the law. It's according to the law that "it is not for law enforcement or junior diplomats to decide these matters".

But what matters to most of us is justice. That is: was what he did the right (as opposed to the legal) thing to do?

If he was, then we can very much find "find fault in US authorities trying to get him back" -- in fact we can find fault in all their previous behavior, that he helped expose.

The same way I'd find fault with any authorities doing something bad, whether it's their "job" or not. In the same way I wouldn't excuse some 1850 judge ordering the hanging of a slave who tried to break free, or the hangman who did it, even if they followed the law.
These days you may as well use a 32bit micro, in terms of cost, toolchain and silicon ability.

The extra dollar you spend on those 16bits easily pays for itself in the extra features you often get with modern 32bit micros.

Especially something like this where you might want to do relatively complex maths / algorithms.

e.g. see the stm32 family
csmonitor puts out surprisingly good well researched articles that compared to other online outlets, aren't rushed to press or are well researched in depth pieces that you simply don't find on many other sites (except maybe Vice or the Atlantic) on occasion.
Cool idea, and nice design. Thx for bringing that good ol web back.
Reading a good book allows you to experience years of someone's life in just a few hours.
Gold prices, like many asset prices, are manipulated openly and secretly by major organizations like central banks.

When people buy gold, it's not because they think the manipulated price is worthwhile, it's because they believe it is intrinsically mispriced and are betting that there will be a price correction at some point.

I mean, can you look at this stock market which has miraculously doubled since 2008, all while the federal reserve has pumped trillions into asset purchasing, and believe our equity and asset markets aren't being heavily influenced by state level actors?
Could you explain why you think so?
>I really do not understand the point of encrypting a subsection of your drive.

To prevent people from reading sensitive data on a stolen/lost laptop.
Can you say what prompted you to contact Netflix then? The article really reads like a love letter to SentinelOne, and includes some pretty odd bits that work well with their marketing for their endpoint product, like describing it as not an anti-virus product.

And what does "post-AV anti-malware" mean?
"Too many redirects" in safari.

works now in ff, but I'd started the 'demo' in safari 60 mins ago. now I can't get back to the main page in safari.
Rid+Your+Life+Of+Toxic+And+Violent+Women:+Weekly+Roundup
Event based code, or even webservice callouts would be a killer feature. It was the first thing I started looking for on the page. With just a few more features this could easily capture a portion of the SMB market who's interested in something as flexible as Salesforce, but can't swallow the $85+ monthly cost per user.
I love it! Interestingly enough though, the ball goes through line intersections.
It works like this

1 Bad employers exploit a loop hole to fuck over poor people

2 It becomes a political issue "something must be done"

3 Laws are passed in haste that negatively effect contractors on $1000/day
Weren't most of the suicides hoaxes? Like the "cut4bieber" hoax?

I've never encountered one, but maybe that was "before my time".
I've had type 1 diabetes for 9 years. In the first 3-4 years my liver continued to produce glucagon. I experienced highs resulting from the down syndrome over night. But after that it just stopped.
Now I automatically wake up if my blood sugar is below a certain threshold. It's a survival instinct. Sometimes though it gets very scary. I can't scream, know that I need to get up and eat something, but I just can't.
The downside is that I am very paranoid. I wake up at least once a week at night (around 3 am) and check my blood sugar levels. Even though they are usually in the expected range, I still get that feeling of 'being low'. If I don't act on it, I might die.
The other ad networks likely won't be using Flash anymore either, which makes blocking ads more difficult - and that is a good thing to ad networks in general. Thus I won't say it's Google against others, and while it may seem so in the short term, in the long term Google and other ad networks benefit from it (while the users suffer...?)
Hm, was there this morning. http://blog.z3bra.org/2015/01/you-are-the-wm.html has some nice examples.
"STL" inside the holy standard lands! I protest! The standard recognises no such thing as "STL"! It is simply the standard libary. The STL is the library that <strike>Alexandrescu</strike> Stepanov wrote that precedes the C++ stdlib.
It almost seems as if they are recreating Acme (plan9 editor).
Actually, and as far as I know, Servo is a research project targeted at the mobile market and not the desktop one. So it's not going to replace Firefox's engine on the desktop anytime soon.

(someone correct me if I'm wrong)
AEP data center push helps it land Amazon for Ohio location
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This is an interesting list, and I don't see anything glaringly wrong ( a few personal preference subjects, but..), so here are my handful of extra tips on top:

1. You can encrypt grub in order to prevent single user mode et al boot attacks. It can also make FDE systems recovery a pita though.

2. They already said it, but GRSEC is where it's at. It's really the future of linux security enhancement, and while you can run it in tandem with SElinux et al, I find it's better to run GRSEC and just fine tune it. You will thank yourself for learning it.

3. These days, you need a HIDS, full stop. What good do logs do if you never know what happens or only check your logs once a week/month/year/never? After spending time trying all the main ones out, OSSEC is my HIDS of choice.

4. SSH: while fail2ban, denyh0sts, et al are all workable options along with the listed option tweaks, what I find to work the best in addition are two things. A) Obscure port. We all know security through obscurity isn't, but reducing scripties bogging stuff down and keeping your logs cleaner helps imho. (it's also the difference between a metric ton of log alert emails and only a few). B) Two factor all the things. I am using the Google pam module, "libpam-google-authenticator". I stopped trusting tor but some friends of mine swear by ssh over tor hidden service.

5. The bottom line is that the linux kernel is out of control at >10mil loc, and 0-days/1-days are prevalent. If you have an internet facing system, it's probably going to get compromised, what you really need is the ability to find out as soon as possible when it happens. What this boils down to is you don't want to lose your data, so you need encrypted backups and verifiable checksums/hashes, so that once you've brought up a fresh system, you can restore data asap. Another thing that factors into this is configuration scripts and management stuff. I really like ansible since it works over ssh/powershell. Can really save a lot of time.

If you really want security, you also need to start and run minimal. I would say self compiled is the best (use flag changes often prevent sploits that otherwise work) so gentoo/slackware/arch would be the best nix distros for this. Beyond that, BSD is still king of the security world imho, especially OBSD, but please give DragonFlyBSD a look. While it's not touted as a "secure" distro, it has a ton of features that make it sexy as hell and it needs security contribs if you have the time. If I were starting a fresh ISP, I would be using DBSD.

For those of us stuck wanting to game and do more fun stuff though, who live in a debian/fedora/ubuntu world, just keeping an eye on logs is really the best you can do. Also keep in mind impact on perf that FDE may have if you are a linux gamer.

Those are my main tips/tricks, but I'm sure both the article and I are missing things, so take it all with a grain of salt.
I heard that there's also a diamond mine somewhere in the multiple inheritance forest, but all pointers to its exact location seem to be off a bit :)
Why did the journalist speak to Netflix in the first place?
The Lessons of Anwar Al-Awlaki
It's mostly business-related and non-technical (I'm using Shopify for the screencasts), although I touch on the Shopify templating system and discuss running/implementing A/B tests. It's primarily a walk-through from start to finish on choosing and validating a long-tail niche, sourcing the products, setting pricing/suitable margins, building out pages, marketing the store, etc.

I chose Shopify because it has a really solid hosting infrastructure, templating is straightforward, you don't have to install the store/SSL certificates, and it has a huge ecosystem of add-ons and integrations. It makes bootstrapping and launching an eCommerce business extremely easy and relatively painless.

Regardless of what back-end you use to power the store, the principles should still be beneficial!
Link bait to paid article under cover of news courtesy of Forbes.
Well, the worst case is still there. You're just going to have a very hard time crafting an input that triggers it.
>> These first devices will be the first real, functioning examples of consumer VR tech that doesn't totally suck, but they'll still be a bit bulky, often require a more powerful computing device to do the heavy lifting, and won't really be appealing outside of the enthusiast and early adopter space.

Looking at review videos of VR by regular people, it seems that the emotional experience it gives people is strong enough for them to live with compromises being made.

Of course there's a difference between that and paying $1500 , but maybe with mobile phone based VR we can bypass that , to an extent ?
I read it. You think "whoever" decided that their web page needs intrusive advertising, tracking, etc. did it in consideration of pros and cons... but with regards to the user experience?

I doubt it. They're thinking about money and that's it.
I wasn't actually mad until you called yourself a "journalist" just now. That's over the line :p
Sure. So it turns out Netflix is this really big company, and I met one of their security architects at Black Hat. I thought, hey, I wonder if they're up to anything interesting at Netflix. I'll give them a call.

A love letter? You send love letters like this to people? Are you like a post-modern Keats?
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https://github.com/zeroclipboard/zeroclipboard/issues/606 Submitted an issue, just in case.
The longer I spend working with "full screen mode" applications the more I start to think "do I need X Y or Z" in a desktop.

I'm down to "notification zone/widget" "status zone/widget" and "the omnibar to end all omnibars" An omnibar in this context is one of the multipurpose text input controls like the cmd-space search box in OS X or the Command Palette in Sublime Text and Atom.

The key being that such an omnibar has to have access to EVERYTHING. From "set system volume 25%" and "mute chrome" to "close sublime text" and beyond. The syntax would probably be one of the hardest things to do correctly. Think OS X without the dock and you'll be heading in the right direction.
Scotch.io has several articles on the topic: https://scotch.io/?s=authentication
well, like most apps, I'd rather use a webbrowser, than something specific than something that takes memory to run it's own instance of. lol
I'm assuming he specifically mentioned encrypting /home because it's on a different partition/disk? I'm guessing /usr is on the root partition which he said he encrypts.
Well, I read the same article and in my opinion you've missed an awful lot. Your summary picks out one small aspect, and present that as the whole point. It's not a scientific paper that can have the finding compressed into an abstract (or as the hipsters say now, a "tldr"). It's a discussion; it's meant to engage you, and trying to pick out a single point as the summary is like saying the point of hiking is to travel from A to B.

It even criticises inaccessible literary analysis:

"...the problem with “academic” literary analysis is that too often it sounds like talking at the reader or, worse, talking down to him or her."

So is it massively lacking in self-awareness, if it suffers this problem itself? I didn't find it at all difficult to read, but then English is my first language so that will always be an advantage I have in reading English.

I think this writing is clear, but you're trying to read it like a mathematical derivation or the write-up of an experiment.
Today, my wife (at home) has called me (at work) because she could not launch chrome anymore. The disk was full. The files /var/log/kern.log and syslog were eating gigabytes. I was able to solve her problem remotely. I have also installed ubuntu on the computer of my old father who lives far. Regularly, I upload pictures (he is my backup for pictuers) and put a shortcut on his desktop.
You should update the Read Me file with this info and maybe add some examples/usage info, etc.
I've flown to Germany from San Francisco several times. Nine time zones away. The flight leaves early afternoon in SF, and I'm in Germany by late morning. The travel included a 40 minute train ride from Frankfurt. I sleep very little on flights, and I'm exhausted on that train ride.

I used to try the "stay awake until night" method once I was in Germany. It wasn't very effective, I didn't adjust for several days. I then tried something different.

As soon as I get to my hotel (around lunchtime), I take a nap of 3 hours or so. I don't let myself sleep beyond that. I then get up and do some activities. I have dinner at the regular local time and then go to sleep at the usual time in the evening.

I've found that I rapidly adjust to the local time and have very little jet lag thereafter. It's that initial nap upon arrival that makes the difference.
Gogo inflight WiFi is about to get a lot faster
Mult succes in continuare ! :)
Fat is the historian of the internet, more of us should do his work
Hijacking this: how does the ordinary solo user go about finding malware if AV is so bad at it? As a Mac user, I know there are rootkits and other nasties out there but I have no idea how to go about detection.
The leader in this space at the moment is Intuit, with their Quickbase product. You can get a rough idea of the customer base here: http://quickbase.intuit.com/customers

They claim 1/2 of the Fortune 100 are customers.
Not sure why you're getting down voted. The middleware business is dominated by C++, Windows is still the big player, and pretty much all legacy code is written in C++. Adopting new language features is far more practical than moving to another language.

Relatively small backend apps written in C++ may be a better target for D and Rust.
The wording on the site is bad. That is supposed to represent 35.9% of the sites that are hosted are using Linux. Linux is considered a sub-category of Unix on w3techs.

See also: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-unix/all/all
collyw, I just noted that you hail from a country in which during the last century an estimated 500,000 were slaughtered in an ideological war, a stunning 2% of the 1936 population. Followed by a 36 year "fascist" regime that all right thinking people hate. Orwell has a thing or two to say about that based on his experiences: http://humanevents.com/2013/04/22/george-orwell-on-gun-contr...
How much does an employer pay for a W2 Full Time Employee?
Looks like the target audience for C++ mindshare is being taken away by Golang and Rust. When I think of "D" I think of nothing but "oh, yeah, they use it at Facebook". Who else uses it? How do you see Golang and Rust as competition?
This just like out of a movie or something. You always hear about rumors of this kind of thing
I'm going to ask you for your source here.

Not because I don't take your argument at face value, but because I'm interested to know what exactly they consider flaky.
Should be working OK in Safari now as well
If we're talking about Desktops running on VMWare, Fedora should give you what you need. Of course it's personal preference, so Ubuntu will work as well.

However, if you are using it as a server of sorts, you really shouldn't use either of those distros. Use CentOS or RHEL, or something purpose built for a long term stable server. Yes I"m aware of Ubuntu and Fedora server editions -- but both distros are focused on being jacks-of-all-trades instead of purpose built as a server only.

Clearly, saying Ubuntu works best on VMWare is a fallacy. Any Triple-A distro will work fine with minimal fuss.